The National Bank of Canada consolidated its multiple standalone RightFax fax servers across different locations into a single virtualized RightFax Enterprise 10.6 shared services architecture with two active nodes to improve efficiency and fault tolerance. This reduced hardware and maintenance costs while simplifying management and ensuring continued functionality with their CreateForm document output system and regulatory compliance. The consolidation eliminated reliance on physical fax cards and phone lines by using SIP trunking over the internet.
Understanding And Evaluating Colocation Data CentersAFCOM
The following presentation was given during the Spring 2012 Data Center World conference in Las Vegas, NV by Kirk Killian. Learn more about Data Center World at www.datacenterworld.com.
Understanding And Evaluating Colocation Data CentersAFCOM
The following presentation was given during the Spring 2012 Data Center World conference in Las Vegas, NV by Kirk Killian. Learn more about Data Center World at www.datacenterworld.com.
The IT manager’s survival guide to outsourcing your fax infrastructure to the...eFax Corporate®
For many in IT management, spending capital, time and IT resources on maintaining fax servers and infrastructure is not a high priority. However, because many established industries — such as legal, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing — are highly dependent on fax documents, IT management must continue to optimize this technology to meet business needs and requirements.
But if your organization is spending more time than you should handling employees’ fax complaints or performing maintenance on fax servers and other infrastructure, it might be time to take your business’s fax infrastructure to the cloud, and leverage all of the benefits of a fully hosted cloud fax solution — benefits that include cost savings, freed-up IT resources, enhanced security and regulatory compliance, and even increased employee productivity.
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As cloud computing becomes common place for many businesses today, some are still working to understand which components of their core business to move to the cloud, and which applications or services to use, so that they can stay competitive with others. For example, some law firms, financial institutions and manufacturing firms are landing on the hybrid model of cloud computing and finding opportunities to greatly streamline their operations, using applications like Office 365, cloud-based disaster recovery services and cloud-based faxing.
In this webinar we will discuss:
How businesses are leveraging cloud computing today with use cases from legal, financial, manufacturing and real estate.
Common misconceptions about cloud computing.
Cyber Hacking and Compliance Risks inherent with older fax infrastructure.
How businesses can sunset their fax Infrastructure with no downtime.
How cloud faxing improves efficiency, confidentiality and responsiveness.
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ScenarioIntegrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a public.docxtodd491
Scenario
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a publically traded company, has its home office located in Billings, Montana. IDI has more than 3,000 employees in the following locations:
Billings, Montana, 600 employees
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 580 employees
Warsaw, Poland, 975 employees
Sydney, Australia, 340 employees
Tanzania, Africa, 675 employees
Japan, China, and Hong Kong, 700 employees
IDI has accounts with major market retailers, federal governments, and large state governments. IDI operates a fleet of trucks in each country and has network interface agreements with subcontractors for freight forwarding, storage, and delivery.
IDI is responsible for the movement of goods, from multiple manufacturers and distributors to its clients, in a timely and efficient manner using cost-effective methods. Alternatively, IDI may transfer this responsibility to one of its joint ventures (JVs) or strategic alliances (SAs), if it is more cost-effective and the income differential is within acceptable limits.
IDI is also under pressure for several of its competitors in the logistics industry. The competitive market is driving IDI to improve its routes, delivery methods, fleet vehicles, and other facets of its business to increase profits (a strategic goal) and to reduce costs. The company realizes that the information technology infrastructure has been neglected for some time and that many operating locations are running on outdated hardware and software. On several occasions last year, IDI suffered no less than four network compromises through one of its JV Internet sites that led to the disclosure of sensitive and strategic information on contracts and mergers.
The chief information officer (CIO) made a strategic presentation to the board of directors and executive management to first assess the aging infrastructure and then, develop a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except for JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. Now that the funding has been approved for the infrastructure assessment, the CIO has asked you to update your passport, and buy some new luggage.
Information about the assessment provided to you indicates that the current state core infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and so on) must be capable of withstanding 10-15% growth every year for the next seven years with a three-to-four-year phased technology refresh cycle.
There is a hodgepodge of servers, switches, routers, and internal hardware firewalls. Your review also disclosed that much (almost all) of the infrastructure is woefully out-of-date in terms of patches and upgrades. This operational neglect has unduly increased the risk to the network, in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Since this will be a multi-year technology upgrade project, something must be done to reduce IDI’s exposure to vulnerabilities to increase the overall security profile and reduce the ris.
Project Integrated Distributors Incorporated
Project Details:
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a publically traded company, has its home office located in Billings, Montana. IDI has more than 3,000 employees in the following locations:
· Billings, Montana, 600 employees
· Sao Paulo, Brazil, 580 employees
· Warsaw, Poland, 975 employees
· Sydney, Australia, 340 employees
· Tanzania, Africa, 675 employees
· Japan, China, and Hong Kong, 700 employees
IDI has accounts with major market retailers, federal governments, and large state governments. IDI operates a fleet of trucks in each country and has network interface agreements with subcontractors for freight forwarding, storage, and delivery.
IDI is responsible for the movement of goods, from multiple manufacturers and distributors to its clients, in a timely and efficient manner using cost-effective methods. Alternatively, IDI may transfer this responsibility to one of its JVs or SAs, if it is more cost-effective and the income differential is within acceptable limits.
IDI is also under pressure for several of its competitors in the logistics industry. The competitive market is driving IDI to improve its routes, delivery methods, fleet vehicles, and other facets of its business to increase profits (a strategic goal) and to reduce costs. The company realizes that the information technology infrastructure has been neglected for some time and that many operating locations are running on outdated hardware and software. On several occasions last year, IDI suffered no less than four network compromises through one of its JV Internet sites that led to the disclosure of sensitive and strategic information on contracts and mergers.
The chief information officer (CIO) made a strategic presentation to the board of directors and executive management to first assess the aging infrastructure and then, develop a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except for JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. Now that the funding has been approved for the infrastructure assessment, the CIO has asked you to update your passport, and buy some new luggage.
Information about the assessment provided to you indicates that the current state core infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and so on) must be capable of withstanding 10-15% growth every year for the next seven years with a three-to-four-year phased technology refresh cycle.
There is a hodgepodge of servers, switches, routers, and internal hardware firewalls. Your review also disclosed that much (almost all) of the infrastructure is woefully out-of-date in terms of patches and upgrades. This operational neglect has unduly increased the risk to the network, in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Since this will be a multi-year technology upgrade project, something must be done to reduce IDI’s exposure to vulnerabilities to increase the overall security profile and reduce the risk profile.
.
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Amidst the swift evolution of today's landscape, the necessity for secure and effective document transmission has reached critical levels. Despite their longstanding presence, traditional fax machines are burdened with inherent constraints. With technological progress, the methodology of sending and receiving documents is evolving. Leading this charge into the future of document transmission is internet faxing software like ICTFAX. This article delves into the intricacies of ICTFAX and evaluates its capacity to revolutionize the document exchange procedure.
Curso: Redes y comunicaciones II: 02 CaaS, NaaS.
Dictado en la Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima - Perú, ciclos 2011-3 (octubre/2011) y 2012-1 (abril/2012).
Reality: You are using SaaS every day. Through the Internet boom technology advancement of the communications grid positioned us in the new millennium to introduce complex technologies as Web-based services:
Halkbank Serves Customers 24/7 Across Channels and Meets Business Continuity ...NetApp
The Challenge
Decrease overhead, speed time to market for new products, and safeguard customers’ financial data, all while supporting data growth rates of 50% annually.
The Solution
Enable disaster recovery and provide continuous, multichannel customer service with NetApp, Cisco, and VMware.
The IT manager’s survival guide to outsourcing your fax infrastructure to the...eFax Corporate®
For many in IT management, spending capital, time and IT resources on maintaining fax servers and infrastructure is not a high priority. However, because many established industries — such as legal, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing — are highly dependent on fax documents, IT management must continue to optimize this technology to meet business needs and requirements.
But if your organization is spending more time than you should handling employees’ fax complaints or performing maintenance on fax servers and other infrastructure, it might be time to take your business’s fax infrastructure to the cloud, and leverage all of the benefits of a fully hosted cloud fax solution — benefits that include cost savings, freed-up IT resources, enhanced security and regulatory compliance, and even increased employee productivity.
How Businesses are Navigating the Transition to Cloud Computing - eFax CorporateeFax Corporate®
As cloud computing becomes common place for many businesses today, some are still working to understand which components of their core business to move to the cloud, and which applications or services to use, so that they can stay competitive with others. For example, some law firms, financial institutions and manufacturing firms are landing on the hybrid model of cloud computing and finding opportunities to greatly streamline their operations, using applications like Office 365, cloud-based disaster recovery services and cloud-based faxing.
In this webinar we will discuss:
How businesses are leveraging cloud computing today with use cases from legal, financial, manufacturing and real estate.
Common misconceptions about cloud computing.
Cyber Hacking and Compliance Risks inherent with older fax infrastructure.
How businesses can sunset their fax Infrastructure with no downtime.
How cloud faxing improves efficiency, confidentiality and responsiveness.
Integrating Multifunction Printers with Cloud Fax: Part 1eFax Corporate®
http://enterprise.efax.com/resources/podcasts - Listen to our latest podcast, "Integrating your MFPs with cloud faxing - Part 1." You will learn how businesses are eliminating their physical fax infrastructure, common misconceptions about fax and MFPs, and how an integration between your MFP and eFax Corporate can help streamline workflows in your organization.
Contact Us Today to Learn More
enterprise.efax.com/
Or
Call Sales (888) 532-9265
ScenarioIntegrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a public.docxtodd491
Scenario
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a publically traded company, has its home office located in Billings, Montana. IDI has more than 3,000 employees in the following locations:
Billings, Montana, 600 employees
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 580 employees
Warsaw, Poland, 975 employees
Sydney, Australia, 340 employees
Tanzania, Africa, 675 employees
Japan, China, and Hong Kong, 700 employees
IDI has accounts with major market retailers, federal governments, and large state governments. IDI operates a fleet of trucks in each country and has network interface agreements with subcontractors for freight forwarding, storage, and delivery.
IDI is responsible for the movement of goods, from multiple manufacturers and distributors to its clients, in a timely and efficient manner using cost-effective methods. Alternatively, IDI may transfer this responsibility to one of its joint ventures (JVs) or strategic alliances (SAs), if it is more cost-effective and the income differential is within acceptable limits.
IDI is also under pressure for several of its competitors in the logistics industry. The competitive market is driving IDI to improve its routes, delivery methods, fleet vehicles, and other facets of its business to increase profits (a strategic goal) and to reduce costs. The company realizes that the information technology infrastructure has been neglected for some time and that many operating locations are running on outdated hardware and software. On several occasions last year, IDI suffered no less than four network compromises through one of its JV Internet sites that led to the disclosure of sensitive and strategic information on contracts and mergers.
The chief information officer (CIO) made a strategic presentation to the board of directors and executive management to first assess the aging infrastructure and then, develop a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except for JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. Now that the funding has been approved for the infrastructure assessment, the CIO has asked you to update your passport, and buy some new luggage.
Information about the assessment provided to you indicates that the current state core infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and so on) must be capable of withstanding 10-15% growth every year for the next seven years with a three-to-four-year phased technology refresh cycle.
There is a hodgepodge of servers, switches, routers, and internal hardware firewalls. Your review also disclosed that much (almost all) of the infrastructure is woefully out-of-date in terms of patches and upgrades. This operational neglect has unduly increased the risk to the network, in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Since this will be a multi-year technology upgrade project, something must be done to reduce IDI’s exposure to vulnerabilities to increase the overall security profile and reduce the ris.
Project Integrated Distributors Incorporated
Project Details:
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a publically traded company, has its home office located in Billings, Montana. IDI has more than 3,000 employees in the following locations:
· Billings, Montana, 600 employees
· Sao Paulo, Brazil, 580 employees
· Warsaw, Poland, 975 employees
· Sydney, Australia, 340 employees
· Tanzania, Africa, 675 employees
· Japan, China, and Hong Kong, 700 employees
IDI has accounts with major market retailers, federal governments, and large state governments. IDI operates a fleet of trucks in each country and has network interface agreements with subcontractors for freight forwarding, storage, and delivery.
IDI is responsible for the movement of goods, from multiple manufacturers and distributors to its clients, in a timely and efficient manner using cost-effective methods. Alternatively, IDI may transfer this responsibility to one of its JVs or SAs, if it is more cost-effective and the income differential is within acceptable limits.
IDI is also under pressure for several of its competitors in the logistics industry. The competitive market is driving IDI to improve its routes, delivery methods, fleet vehicles, and other facets of its business to increase profits (a strategic goal) and to reduce costs. The company realizes that the information technology infrastructure has been neglected for some time and that many operating locations are running on outdated hardware and software. On several occasions last year, IDI suffered no less than four network compromises through one of its JV Internet sites that led to the disclosure of sensitive and strategic information on contracts and mergers.
The chief information officer (CIO) made a strategic presentation to the board of directors and executive management to first assess the aging infrastructure and then, develop a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except for JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. Now that the funding has been approved for the infrastructure assessment, the CIO has asked you to update your passport, and buy some new luggage.
Information about the assessment provided to you indicates that the current state core infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and so on) must be capable of withstanding 10-15% growth every year for the next seven years with a three-to-four-year phased technology refresh cycle.
There is a hodgepodge of servers, switches, routers, and internal hardware firewalls. Your review also disclosed that much (almost all) of the infrastructure is woefully out-of-date in terms of patches and upgrades. This operational neglect has unduly increased the risk to the network, in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Since this will be a multi-year technology upgrade project, something must be done to reduce IDI’s exposure to vulnerabilities to increase the overall security profile and reduce the risk profile.
.
Breaking Boundaries ICTFAX Internet Faxing Software Transforms Document Excha...danishhafeez11
Amidst the swift evolution of today's landscape, the necessity for secure and effective document transmission has reached critical levels. Despite their longstanding presence, traditional fax machines are burdened with inherent constraints. With technological progress, the methodology of sending and receiving documents is evolving. Leading this charge into the future of document transmission is internet faxing software like ICTFAX. This article delves into the intricacies of ICTFAX and evaluates its capacity to revolutionize the document exchange procedure.
Curso: Redes y comunicaciones II: 02 CaaS, NaaS.
Dictado en la Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima - Perú, ciclos 2011-3 (octubre/2011) y 2012-1 (abril/2012).
Reality: You are using SaaS every day. Through the Internet boom technology advancement of the communications grid positioned us in the new millennium to introduce complex technologies as Web-based services:
Halkbank Serves Customers 24/7 Across Channels and Meets Business Continuity ...NetApp
The Challenge
Decrease overhead, speed time to market for new products, and safeguard customers’ financial data, all while supporting data growth rates of 50% annually.
The Solution
Enable disaster recovery and provide continuous, multichannel customer service with NetApp, Cisco, and VMware.
Halkbank Serves Customers 24/7 Across Channels and Meets Business Continuity ...
national-bank
1. Quebec’s Largest Financial Corporation Consolidates
Electronic Document Delivery with RightFax
Banque Nationale du Can-
ada . . . The National Bank of Cana-
da (NBC) is a full-service provider of
retail and commercial banking, trust,
securities brokerage, mortgage and
insurance products and services.
NBC is the 6th largest commercial
bank in Canada and the largest
bank in Quebec. Each day NBC ex-
changes critical and confidential
financial information between cli-
ents, branches, businesses, and offi-
cials, the documents includes Ac-
count summaries, Branch summary
reports, Financial reports and state-
ments, Regulatory disclosures and
information, Wire transfers, Securi-
ties reports, Deposits, Consumer
loans, Commercial loans, Mortgage
loans, Wealth management, Credit /
Debit Card. Untimely or unsecured
delivery can result in financial loss,
legal action, or missed opportunities
for the financial services institution
or the recipient. A large percentage
of the documentation that is passed
back and forth is sent via fax, as it is
the most efficient legally recognized
communication method.
CHALLENGES:
The IT department is challenged
with managing the delivery of fax
documents for business units with
multiple stand-alone fax machines,
multi-function devices and several
OpenText RightFax Business fax
servers in multiple locations.
The IT department was under pres-
sure to provide secure, reliable and
timely fax document delivery to cus-
tomers, partners, and regulating
agencies while maintaining confi-
dentiality of sensitive financial doc-
uments and integrations with front-
and back-office applications to ex-
tend and leverage current compu-
ting environments. IT was chal-
lenged with managing the 5 stand-
alone RightFax Business fax servers
that were not architected for fault
tolerance or redundancy to help
mitigate against system failures and
to ensure regulatory compliance.
The Bank relied on a Cold spare
strategy to deploy a redundant
RightFax Business Server stored in
an isolated location to be manually
activated in the event of a primary
system failure. The intention was to
use the redundant server in the
event that the production server
was system interruption or shut
down for an extended duration. The
redundant server wasn’t online and
didn’t process faxes until activated;
production databases and other
transactional files would have to be
manually copied to the passive cold
spare. Bringing the cold spare on
line would take hours and the pro-
duction system would lose the abil-
ity to receive inbound faxes during
the manual recovery process.
Hardware consolidations, Fault Tol-
erance and Disaster Recovery strat-
egy to help mitigate against system
failure challenges had to be ad-
dressed. The main task was to allo-
Company: Banque Nationale du Canada.
1100 University, 7th floor, Montreal
(Quebec), Canada H3B 2G7 www.nbc.ca
Industry: Financial & Insurance Services
Application: Upgrade multiple RightFax
Business Server 9.3 & 9.4 in several loca-
tions required consolidation in a VM instance
with RightFax Enterprise 10.6, eliminate
reliance on fax cards with FoIP, Telco, multi-
function machines & ensure functionality
with Create-Form without loss of historical
transactional Meta data and images.
Challenge: Single servers have no fault
tolerance. Reduce staff demands and costs
of managing increased fax traffic on multiple
single use servers in multiple locations ser-
vicing the country.
Solution: Consolidate multiple RightFax
Business servers into RightFax Enterprise
10.6 Shared Services architecture with FoIP,
SIP trunks and Create-Form implemented
with VMware, implementation, technical sup-
port & training services.
Results: Successful upgrade, consolidation,
significant cost reductions, improved man-
agement visibility and control of fax traffic.
PROJECT SUMMARY
Connectis Project Story FINANCIAL & INSURANCE SERVICES
2. cate more time and resources to other initia-
tives by consolidating multiple RightFax phys-
ical server workloads onto a single, active-
active shared services architecture in a virtual-
ized environment. IT Director Eric Lemay was
chosen to consolidate the RightFax servers
into a central landing zone utilizing their ex-
isting SIP trunks for FoIP (Fax Over IP), reduce
the hardware footprint and recurring annual
maintenance and supports costs and elimi-
nate any hardware Media Gateways, physical
Fax cards and Telco.
During the Discovery phase Connectis re-
viewed the future RightFax implementation in
detail including: network designs; specifica-
tion of new processes; and phased in imple-
mentation along with contingency planning
for specific scenarios. NBC had servers spread
across facilities in Montreal, Toronto and Ed-
monton that provided faxing services to entire
company with integrations to Create Form
Suite (Bottom-line Technologies) for docu-
ment output management to convert stand-
ard application output into functional elec-
tronic documents, and then distributes them
over fax lines (SIP Trunks) to deliver docu-
ments to a recipient, using numbers retrieved
from the base document or an ODBC data-
base reference.
Each RightFax server stores transactional Meta
data in SQL database. Managing multiple
RightFax SQL databases across the country
posed a challenge. IT Management was con-
cerned about excessive database maintenance
issues that might arise. Servers had to be
monitored to ensure service up time. IT Exec-
utive leadership decided a centralized moni-
toring mechanism for all inbound fax jobs
from one station was needed. NBC reviewed
the RightFax licensing, server deployments
and the recurring annual maintenance costs
to establish best practices.
THE SOLUTION:
NBC decided to consolidate the 5 RightFax
Business servers into a RightFax Enterprise
Shared Services architecture in 1 location with
two active – active nodes, 1 node dedicated
for CDBN, 1 for International Business divi-
sion, and the third node located in Toronto
configured to mitigate against potential failure of both CDBN and
International nodes. This colocation strategy eliminated the need for
2 Administrators. Centralized server access enabled easier server
management, power and floor space expenses are reduced, backups
can be performed efficiently, and security can be increased.
Connectis integrated RightFax to operate with Create Form suite to
deliver documents to a fax destination, using fax numbers retrieved
from the base document or an external ODBC database reference.
Instead of a physical Telco trunk for PSTN phone lines, RightFax is
now connected with SIP trunking which provides a virtual trunk over
the Internet to PSTN lines eliminating the need for Media Gateways,
switched telephone network (PSTN) lines; resulting in reduced opera-
tions costs for installing, configuring, and maintaining physical
phone lines and PBX's for each office.
The RightFax Server consolidation eliminated the RightFax server
sprawl at the Bank by combining the workloads running on multiple
RightFax servers into a unified architecture. The consolidation yield-
ed improved cost efficiency from higher utilization of resources,
standardization and improved manageability of the IT environment.
Standards are now more easily enforced on a RightFax server that
provides service across the country resulted in fewer Administrators
required to successfully manage the server upgrades, patches and
while reducing the complexity and time required to manage a failo-
ver. National Bank of Canada efficiency and service improved while
maintaining a scalable, adaptive and robust architecture.
CONCLUSION:
National Bank of Canada successfully concluded the RightFax over
FoIP trunks consolidation project; and gained greater control over
their IT resources, RightFax servers, SQL databases and ensured func-
tionality with their in place Create Forms infrastructure. Resulting in
improved efficiencies, a more consistent level of service delivery, and
increases in RightFax fax channel density and performance.
NBC’s stakeholders and VPs goal was to simplify, integrate and ex-
tend their current Oracle ERP environments and leverage existing
legacy technologies investments. A centralized financial document
delivery hub supports full regulatory compliance, and the system
also provides tamper resistant document delivery and notification as
well as encrypted and certified fax delivery options.
Desktop fax machines are no longer required for this process, nor are
the monthly telecom costs. Each department uses a single line, and
publishes a unique DID fax number for each internal person for fax
routing. Employees can now send and receive faxes from within their
Outlook email inbox using the RightFax Exchange Connector for Mi-
crosoft Exchange 2010. The Web Access module has been imple-
mented enabling users to access all inbound and outbound fax activ-
ity using a web browser; sending of PDF files has also been added
through the deployment of the RightFax PDF module.