| Dresden-Rossendorf Research Centre The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| Since 1992, the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) has been engaged in basic and application-oriented research. The main topics are advanced materials, cancer research and nuclear safety research. It currently employs approximately 750 people. The research centre‘s work would be inconceivable without a high-performance system: Resource-intensive calculations and simulations are carried out every day and data generated from experiments are analysed. For the last eight years, the FZD has been using a high-performance cluster for these tasks. In 2009, the research centre decided to double the computing power of the existing cluster by implementing another cluster. The new cluster is mainly used for sequential and parallel calculations. The demands on processor computing performance and RAM, hard drive capacity and network performance are equally high. |
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"After a three-year successful collaboration with transtec, we expected the company to deliver a convincing concept for expanding our HPC infrastructure to meet the technical IT requirements of our researchers by applying the most innovative
resources. transtec‘s solution not only produced a high cluster computing performance but also offered the option of effciently integrating existing resources into our data centre. Our scientists can now carry out larger simulations which were up until
now not possible." Dr. Henrik Schulz, Head of HPC at FZD. |
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| Thales The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| Employing 68,000 people in 50 countries, Thales is an internationally active company which specialises in the three business areas of aerospace, defence and security. At the company’s site in Stuttgart, Thales concentrates its activities on train traffic control and safety for regional and intercity railways. With the company’s LeiDis-NK program (control system for customer network planning), Thales ensures the safety of the entire Deutsche Bahn network but also works with various airports and regional public transport systems in German towns and cities. The train connections in the entire railway network are monitored by the network control and operations centres. | The LeiDis-NK train traffic control system requires a demanding software and reliable hardware to guarantee fail-safe operation. Thales trusts in the exclusive use of transtec systems and has already outsourced over 400 computers to 208 locations. SENYO 820 Business PCs and their predecessor, the transtec 1300, are the systems in application. The IT specialists from Tuebingen also helped with the consultancy, backup and the recovery mechanism. With the help of transtec notebooks and PCs, LeiDis-NK is regularly presented at trade shows and events in Danzig, Jönköping (Sweden), Sochi (Russia), Milan, Brussels as well as Leipzig and Berlin. |
"Our systems have to function reliably to guarantee passenger safety. This includes our software as well as the applied hardware which transtec has supplied exclusively since 2002. transtec was recommended to us by the DB Netz AG who was extremely satisfied with the company. The consultancy experts at transtec proved valuable sources beyond just the hardware. Image production, backup and the recovery mechanism were other important issues for our company. Working together with transtec, we could find extremely efficient solutions to enable smooth system operation." Michael Ruhland, Project Manager at Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GmbH |
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| STEAG AG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| Electricity producers such as STEAG optimise software for their power generation services at so-called control centres. At these centres, individual applications are run on a cluster system which had caused power and performance problems at STEAG due to the old system still in use. | Performance optimisation and system availability are essential for power plants to be able to sell any excess generated capacities back to the electricity market. STEAG thus required reliable real-time operation and constant system availability. |
"It was important for us to receive a complete solution combining hardware, software and service. transtec met our requirement and also impressed us with their vast know-how." Achim Brinkmann, Head of Department, STEAG AG |
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| HOLZ-HER The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| HOLZ-HER Reich Spezialmaschinen GmbH was founded in 1914 by Matthias Reich in the Black Forest. In 1925, the company first produced a stationary circular saw and the era of the first electric woodworking machines began. Today, HOLZ-HER Reich is a leading manufacturer of pressure beam saws, vertical panel saws, edgebanders and CNC machining centres produced at the Austrian site in the town of Voitsberg. In 2007, HOLZ-HER Reich employed more than 560 employees and achieved turnover figures of 113 million euros. | The PLC is at the heart of pressure beam saws and CNC machining centres manufactured by HOLZ-HER Reich. transtec configures and supplies SENYO 820 PCs designed specifically as the basis for the PLCs. The system includes a modem for remote management and an image on which the software from HOLZ-HER is stored. transtec Austria guarantees the shipment of each configuration over a two-year period. HOLZ-HER Reich can thus ensure the same quality of its machines. The PC technology integrated in the PLC has run seamlessly without displaying any problems on a global scale. The logistical flexibility of transtec has saved costs for HOLZ-HER Reich. transtec PCs are shipped just in time and installed immediately. |
"transtec delivers an unsurpassable all-round package of technology, quality and logistical flexibility as well as a perfect price-performance ratio. We have not experienced any PC problems in PLC technology during our partnership with transtec. Besides which, the excellent shipment reliability of transtec Austria is an essential factor for our supply chain management." "As a European manufacturer, we have to deliver machines of the highest quality and offer flexibility to maintain and strengthen our market position. This means that even the components supplied by partners such as transtec have to be of the highest quality and these partners must be prepared to work closely with us in reacting quickly to market changes." Rudolf Vogl, Managing Director of HOLZ-HER Reich Spezialmaschinen GmbH |
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| Balzerborn Hospital The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The Balzerborn hospitals form a highly modern rehabilitation centre for individual diagnostic procedures fitted with all the necessary equipment. Special examinations can be carried out at the nearby University Hospital in Göttingen, a partner of the hospital. For therapeutic treatment, the hospital has a wide range of rooms available for individual and group therapy. The immediate proximity of the hospital to the thermal salt-water baths and the graduation house extends the range of alternative treatments available considerably. A doctors‘ centre is also attached to the hospital divided into various subjects. This guarantees an optimum and comprehensive treatment for patients at the highest level. | To implement the hospital‘s improvements, transtec designed a virtual server landscape under XEN with redundant CALLEO 322 high-performance servers with two multi-core CPUs and central ISCSI NAS3100L file server. transtec designed a backup concept to back up hospital data faster and more conveniently and to be available at any time in the event of any crashes. All of the above-mentioned components were integrated in a 19“ chassis with an uninterruptible power supply. The 200 hospital rooms were fitted with energy-saving TFTs as well as 30 workstations with energy-efficient transtec SENYO 610 Mini PCs for hospital personnel and doctors. |
"With transtec as IT specialist, we could have all the services from one source from consultation, installation to the service. transtec proved not only a competent partner but also a reliable one for all cases."
"Whoever wants to be ahead of the highly competitive health and rehabilitation sector has to have the latest technical upgrades to ensure patients the comfort they need and to optimise work processes in hospitals. A fast, effective and inexpensive implementation was possible thanks to reliable partners such as transtec." Dr. Johannes Wessels, Adviser to the Balzerborn hospitals |
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| T-Mobile Austria The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| With more than 3.4 million customers, T-Mobile Austria has become a successful driving force in the Austrian mobile communications sector. Customer and service orientation is at the heart of the company‘s identity. In the development of projects and solutions, T-Mobile Austria focuses on easy handling based on technological advancements. The company‘s international presence enables customers, even outside Austria, to profit from a wide range of products and services which they can use internationally as well as in their home network. T-Mobile Austria is a subsidiary of T-Mobile International, the mobile phone branch of Deutschen Telekom AG, and is thus one of the largest companies in the telecom sector in the world. |
An UMTS/GPRS monitoring solution was installed at two locations. Storage systems from the transtec PROVIGO 600 series with a storage volume of up to 138 TB were connected to 12 server systems:
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"With its excellent price-performance ratio, transtec helped us get this project up and running. This just would not have been possible without a financially viable solution as the monitoring software alone generates high costs and we want to ensure our customers high quality."
"With the "Try and Buy" service from transtec, we could test all the components we needed without any risk. transtec fully met all the specifications and passed our test." Dr. Höchtl, Senior Manager Core-PO/Packet Networks at T-Mobile |
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| Nexellent - Upgrading The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The Swiss company nexellent AG in Glattbrugg is a supplier of managed data centre services for outsourcing IT infrastructures. In 2006, the company responded to customer demand and launched storage-as-a-service (SaaS). Once the new service was successfully up and running, an upgrade was soon required: a system to fulfil the highest high availability demands. transtec supported the Swiss IT service provider during both business development phases as an adviser and delivered the right solution. | Together with the experts at transtec AG, the Swiss IT outsourcing service provider developed a system solution for storage and backup services. The hardware is based on a high-availability storage system developed by transtec. Two transtec PROVIGO 550 SAS Business RAIDs form the heart of the nexellent SAN. The special features of these storage systems include low maintenance, convenient operation and a capacity of up to 60 hard drives and 45 Terabytes. In addition, it consumes around half the energy of other standard systems. By implementing the storage virtualisation solution, the storage infrastructure could be expanded with features such as snapshots. |
"transtec is the ideal partner for implementing our extended SaaS portfolio. We were utterly convinced with transtec‘s specialist know-how and expertise. From an economic perspective, the decision was made even easier by the fact that we were given an attractive price for the hardware. With our storage services, we have an optimum position in the IT service sector. We can now provide our customers with complete data
management solutions, as storage and backup ideally complement our service portfolio." Enrico Goldhahn, Product and Marketing Manager at nexellent sums up the transtec service |
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| Freie Universität Berlin The complete reference as PDF >> |
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The seismic/seismology workgroup at the Freie Universität Berlin researches into the Earth's interior with the help of artificial and natural seismic waves. For this purpose, it developed a 3D imaging and modelling process which it applies in geotechnological and geodynamic projects on different depth scales. Two examples from the field of geotechnology: with the help of this process, a prediction range of up to 100 metres is possible during the build of the new Gotthard Basis Tunnel. Reservoirs up to five kilometres underground can be imaged and characterised. This is important when extracting petroleum and natural gas or for underground CO2 storage. By applying the process to geodynamic problems, the scientists want to improve research into the origin of large earthquakes. The Californian San-Andreas fault can thus be researched at a depth of ten kilometres and the Ocean plate under the South American Andes up to 100 kilometres. |
For a long time, the institute had to rely on reserving the necessary computing time and storage capacity either on the University's large mainframe computers or on the Beowulf cluster built by the institute. In the Spring of 2008, transtec installed a cluster with 13 Dual-Quad-core computing nodes and five Terabyte storage capacity. The plan is to expand this to 36 nodes by the start of 2009. With a total of 288 GB RAM, all the workgroup's calculations and simulations should be executed. In addition, 22 Linux workstations are in operation at the institute. |
"Our institute needs a reliable system with excellent computing power and a lot of storage capacity. We were impressed by transtec's expertise and the reliability of the hardware." "We were also extremely satisfied with transtec's consultation. In principle, we knew precisely what we needed in advance; but there was still room for optimisation. transtec recommended a 10 GB connection from the storage node to the switch which speeds up the data package transfer rate tenfold compared to a standard connection of just one Gigabit. We weren't sure if this was economically feasible. Thanks to the excellent advice we received from transtec, there was no danger of bottlenecking data transfer at this point." Dr. Stefan Buske, head of the seismic data laboratory at the Institute for Geological Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Nexellent The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| nexellent AG in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, provides managed data centre services for outsourcing IT infrastructures. An increasing number of customers desired additional solutions in the area of storage and backup in order to comply with the new statutory regulations. The company was therefore increasingly faced with the challenge of expanding its IT services and therefore its business area. The new storage service was of particular interest for nexellent as it could be easily integrated into its existing portfolio. transtec supported the Swiss IT service-provider in its capacity as consultant and supplied the right hardware. | The Swiss service-provider for IT outsourcing collaborated with the experts at transtec AG in Rümlang and Tübingen to develop a system solution for storage and backup services. The hardware component forms a high-available storage system developed by transtec. The core of the nexellent SAN is formed by a transtec PROVIGO 550 SAS Business RAID. Low maintenance requirements, easy operation and a capacity of up to 60 hard drives and 45 TB are what distinguish this storage system. What’s more, it only requires half of the electricity consumed by other standard systems while integrated snapshot functions ensure maximum security. |
"transtec is the ideal partner for realising our new services in the area of storage and backup. First of all, we were entirely convinced by the great consulting competence displayed by transtec. The fact that we were able to procure the requisite hardware for an attractive price also made the decision an easy one from an economic perspective. The new storage services mean that we now enjoy an ideal position as an IT service-provider. We are able to offer our customers comprehensive solutions for their Data Management as storage and backup supplement the data services offered to date in an optimum manner." Enrico Goldhahn, Product and Marketing Manager at nexellent |
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| GIATA The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| GIATA, die Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung und Vermarktung interaktiver Tourismusanwendungen mbH in Berlin, supports renowned tour operators such as TUI, Thomas Cook or Expedia in preparing their travel data for the Internet. The service-provider manages an extensive graphic data base of travel destinations visited by its customers, for example. The storage resources of this graphic archive had finally reached their limits. For this reason and following consulting by transtec, GIATA opted to implement a new and more modern server solution. | The new network storage for graphic data for GIATA comprises several CALLEO 100 servers with PROVIGO 510 RAIDs. Both components are extremely reliable in operation as well as being very feasible thanks to their low maintenance demands. Accordingly, GIATA customers can access their data at all times as well as benefiting from the low risk of system failure. |
"At transtec, we were particularly convinced of the quality as well as competent advice and uncomplicated service provided. We outlined our demands to the responsible Sales Manager who then developed a tailor-made offer following extensive consulting. Thanks to modern server technology, our services are now distinguished by improved availability and our customers benefit from the higher data transfer rates." Heiko Bollert who is responsible for IT at GIATA |
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| Genotec The complete reference as PDF >> |
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The Swiss Internet service-provider Genotec AG was established in 2001. The company currently employs 22 people and supports more than 17,700 shared hosting customers and around 300 server customers in its own PC centres in Allschwil and Basle. According to Netcraft, Genotec is one of the top ten providers in Switzerland and is even among the top three providers in the Windows environment. What’s more, it also boasts the quality mark of Swiss Quality Hosting. A growing customer base is accompanied by a steady increase in requirements as regards customised servers and PCs. Genotec therefore requires new servers on a regular basis which are specially tailored to the requirements of individual customers. Major hardware manufacturers were unable to comply with these needs in practice. |
transtec supplied tailored consulting and more than 180 individually-configured servers and PCs based on a built-to-order principle to the value of more than 180,000 Euros. CALLEO range 101 and 301 servers as well as SENYO PCs were deployed enabling Genotec’s requirements for dedicated systems and shared hosting to be implemented in an optimum manner. |
"I am convinced that a small or medium-sized company is best looked after by an equally medium-sized company."
"The control centre is of particular importance for us as our customers are also often technical experts whose feedback we continually incorporate in our developments. It is therefore imperative to have a hardware partner who is capable of reacting swiftly and with technical expertise to our requirements." "The configurations made possible by transtec leave nothing to be desired. The good engineering is particularly tangible and the selection of components is always exactly right." Simon Jenny, Managing Director and co-founder of Genotec |
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| Dresden-Rossendorf Research Centre The complete reference as PDF >> |
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The Dresden-Rossendorf Research Centre (FZD) has conducted application-oriented and basic research focussing on new materials, cancer research and nuclear safety research since 1992. Around 700 people are currently employed there. A high-performance IT system is imperative for the work performed at the Research Centre. Resource-intensive computations and simulations are run every day and experimental data is evaluated. For more than five years, the FZD has been using a high-performance cluster for these tasks. In 2006, the IT output was to be tripled by procuring an additional cluster. The new cluster is primarily used for performing sequential and parallel computations. The demands on processor output as well as memory, hard drive capacity and network performance are accordingly high. The FZD uses the Linux operating system. |
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"What was convincing about the transtec offer was the price/performance ratio and – of equal significance – the manufacturer’s willingness to approach our individual demands in a very flexible manner. It goes without saying that a standard solution would not be of any use here. We need a tailor-made cluster solution. The hydra-cluster installed by transtec is utterly convincing. Our researchers make intensive use of the new possibilities: they can now run models and simulations in the area of nanostructures, for example, which were not possible in the past." Dr. Uwe Konrad, who is responsible for IT at the FZD |
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| blueCarat AG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| Since 2001, blueCarat AG with headquarters in Cologne, has been providing IT solutions and is involved in consulting as well as software development. The company focuses on Web-oriented technologies and the customers are from the telecommunications, industrial, commercial and public sectors. The aim of the IT upgrade was to cover various aspects: Besides updating the technical infrastructure, a split into autonomous administration units was also an issue. Another key target was virtualisation which would enable resources to be shared depending on requirements. |
The new complete solution has been in operation at blueCarat since May 2007, at the heart of which is a RAID system from transtec. The transtec PROVIGO 610 shares the storage capacities between the virtual machines which run on two CALLEO 301 transtec servers.
In addition, four CALLEO 101 models from the same family are also in use: firstly, they are used in the VPN in the demilitarised zone and secondly, as a firewall and VPN terminals at the subsidiaries. |
"Our decision to go with transtec was based on the previous good experience with the hardware. Other reasons included the attractive price-performance ratio and the fast response to our inquiries which can only be delivered by a small to mid-sized company like transtec. The fast logistics process from transtec was also
impressive."
"The extensive consultation service impressed us from the very start. The smooth implementation also spoke in favour of transtec. The conversion was worth every cent - we are now more flexible and can respond faster to our customers." Norbert Meyer, IT service management consultant at blueCarat |
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| BELNET The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| BELNET, the state network agency, was established in 1993. It supplies the Belgian government as well as all key national research facilities and universities with online services and Internet access. But the portfolio also includes technically more demanding services such as video conferences and VPN services (Virtual Private Network). BELNET enables research facilities to access international networks such as Internet2 and GÉANT. Apart from all of these services, BELNET has also been offering its customers capacity for FTP transfer (File Transfer Protocol) for quite some time although it has reached its limits at times in terms of bandwidth performance and hard drive capacity. |
BELNET aimed to increase customer satisfaction in the area of FTP in the form of an improved technical offering. The Belgian Internet service provider wished to better utilise the capacities of its bandwidth connections while simultaneously increasing the number of connections to the server clusters. By linking powerful servers to become clusters, the aim was to improve and utilise the technical resources in a more efficient manner. The idea to merge servers to clusters was a true innovation as there are only a few providers of FTP storage using this technology. transtec recommended BELNET an iSCSI storage system with switches based on a GB Ethernet connection. Users of BELNET services now benefit from a 10 GB Ethernet connection. transtec CALLEO 301 servers are used for front-end applications. The cluster solution ensures the requisite high availability. |
"After having consulted different players in the IT market during our tender, we opted for transtec as we are very satisfied with the prices and quality of their products. In our innovative FTP project, we have particularly benefited from the swift support provided by transtec whenever technical problems arose during tests and implementation." Pascal Panneels, who is responsible for the area of Servers & Services at BELNET |
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| J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co The complete reference as PDF >> |
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The J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co., founded in 1865 and with the main office in Esslingen am Neckar, is an independent company and focuses on two areas of technology: Exhaust gas technology (converters, soot filters, exhaust silencers) as well as auxiliary and supplementary heating systems for cars, vans, heavy goods vehicles, buses, construction vehicles and boats. The growing quantities of data arising from development applications and the heterogeneity of the IT environment caused IT managers an ever-increasing number of headaches. The administration of many IT single systems, including storage applications, was becoming increasingly unclear and more expensive. |
At the start of 2007, the SANmelody virtualisation software, from DataCore, was installed on the available hardware at the headquarters in Esslingen. It comprises of two transtec SAN Storage Domain Servers (SDS) with synchronous mirroring, authentic automatic failover/failback, thin provisioning and alternate pathing for the application servers. In February 2007, the Neunkirchen site received a separate SDS with new storage hardware in the form of redundant PROVIGO 610 FC/SATA RAID systems, including thin provisioning and asynchronous IP replication. Since then, Eberspächer has raised the utilisation capacities of both SAN installations by using other systems from the PROVIGO-610 series. Eberspächer is currently managing around 35 terabytes with the help of storage virtualisation, with an upward trend. |
"Naturally we spoke to other suppliers of virtualisation solutions before we made the final decision. The reason we chose transtec is, among others, because both the competence of their employees and the attractive cost effectiveness impressed us." "It wasn’t just the advice we received, it was also the unproblematic implementation that justified working together with transtec. Our IT administrators are more than satisfied with the new system and the users haven’t even noticed the change." "We will continue to push ahead with the virtualisation process in our office due to these positive experiences." Dr Thomas Rückle, TI (technical informatics) at Eberspächer |
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| Trade Fair Centre in Stuttgart The complete reference as PDF >> |
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The trade fair centre in Stuttgart (LMS) opened its doors in October 2007. The move from the Stuttgart Killesberg to the Filder region doubled the centre’s exhibition area from 54,500 square metres to 100,000 – and provided the opportunity to create one of the most modern trade fair centre’s in Europe with a perfect infrastructure.
The LMS was looking for a compact PC with all the features of a desktop computer in modern outfit to equip 300 computer workplaces in the administration, customer relations and press divisions. |
A standard design of all the PC workstations was important to LMS and it opted for the mini PC SENYO 600X including 19’’ displays, slimline keyboards and optical mice from transtec AG, who also provided an individual design of the computer chassis. The features at a glance:
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"We wanted a workplace solution whose look and feel were in keeping with the modern design of our trade fair centre. At the same time, the PCs needed to be state-of-the-art. transtec managed to convince us with the SENYO 600.
The company offered the mini PCs with a configuration suited to our individual needs and changed the computers to incorporate our own customised branding. transtec thus contributed enormously to the modern and innovative impression of the new trade fair centre and also gained bonus points being a local supplier: thanks to the close proximity, support and spare parts are available extremely quickly." Rudolf Anders, IT team manager at LMS comments |
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