Demand ITS believes in using quality hardware, with our vendors we have access to all the major vendors including IBM, Dell, HP and RBC Reliant Server.

During a deployment we will always offer you two solutions, a custom server and a brand name solution. The vast majority of our clients tend to gravitate to the RBC Reliant Servers due to cost; an equivalent custom server from RB Computing will typically cost half of that offered by the other three vendors.

Because we prefer custom built systems, we will ensure that any server you purchase from us has the correct specifications to meet your needs and that you will not be paying for equipment, options and technologies that you will not need.

Our SBS 2008 will include the following minimum hardware specifications :

RBC Reliant Servers us quality SuperMicro mainboards, Super Micro Computer Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells energy-efficient, application optimized server solutions based o n the x86 architecture. The company's wide range of products includes a vast array of server, high-end workstation and storage systems as well as energy efficient server components.

We choose SuperMicro because of their high reliability, fantastic support and reputation as being one of the best OEM manufactures of server components in the industry.

To protect your data we use only 3Ware hardware raid controllers, over the years we've rescued data from the systems using 'integrated' raid far too many times. True hardware raid controllers do not slow down your system with intensive disk access or lose data if your system unexpectedly crashes. These hardware controllers also make the worst case scenario of recovering a completely dead server far easier.

If you would like to read more about SuperMicro or 3Ware please click the links below:

3Ware 9650SE PCIe Raid Controller

SuperMicro's Website

Depending on your deployment Scenario we can also source the following equipment from our hardware partners if required:

• Workstations & Monitors
• Laptops & Netbooks
• Software
• Backup Storage Devices
• Network Equipment
• UPS and Surge Suppressors 
• Unified Threat Management Devices (Security Firewalls)

For a complete list of hardware products please visit our preferred vendor, RB Computing Inc at http://www.shoprbc.com/