Acer announces Middle East launch of enterprise servers

The leading technology, superb performance, and outstanding flexibility in the new Acer Altos servers deliver reliability, easy manageability and scalability for Middle East users.

"The Acer Altos servers were designed to eliminate concerns over future compatibility and usability while offering a convenient and highly manageable winning solution for today's users - a perfect combination for small and medium-sized Middle East enterprises wanting to 'future-proof' their IT investments," said Dinesh Narayanan, Director, Business Development, Acer Computer (M.E.) Ltd.

Acer recently announced server sales growth of over 40% in the Gulf region for the first quarter of year 2002 over Q1 2001. The company attributed this increase to a number of factors, including increased focus on the small and medium enterprise (SME) market.

Acer has empowered SME businesses throughout the region with innovative and affordable technology solutions that enable organizations to share and access information both internally and externally.

Features and Benefits of the Acer Altos G300 Server
The Acer Altos G300 integrates the latest technologies into a system that is ideally suited for growing businesses looking to get new hardware up and running as quickly as possible and making sure that it fits into their existing network structure. It's highly standardized and wide-ranging components, as well as the operating systems supported, indicate that installing the Altos G300 is accomplished easily without extensive MIS support.

The Altos G300 is designed with various winning solutions for solid performance and trouble-free installation. The latest Intel® Pentium® 4 processors coupled with up to 4GB of ECC DDR-RAM and leading ServerWorks® chipset make sure that this server outperforms customers' expectations. The Altos EasyStor removable HDD tray holding three standard IDE or SCSI hard disks in the front allows customers easily pull out, replace and upgrade the storage without having to open up the chassis.

The Acer Altos G300 is a perfect tool for customers to go ahead and stay ahead. The IDE-RAID integration offers the most easy and cost-effective data security. Most importantly, Altos G300 is the first entry-level server in market designed with the standard on-board gigabit-LAN and 64-bit PCI slots, offering customers the astonishing future expansion and high performance.

Acer's respected ASM and EasyBUILD software packages in the Altos G300 make building and managing solutions easy. The built-in LED warning light automatically alerts customers when problems arise. What's more, internal diagnostic LEDs record the results of the Power on Self Test performed during start up, enabling quick and easy interpretation of BIOS check.

Features and Benefits of the Acer Altos G700 Server
Replete with advanced features, including dual Intel® Xeon™ processors, the Acer Altos G700 is a stable server solution that enables users to confidently adopt new technologies as they emerge. The Acer Altos G700 is designed to be the next generation of 2-way performance general purpose server. The G700 system is designed perfectly for the fast, capable performance for general business applications, e-mail, Web serving, clustering or file and print.

The new introducing features/technology include Xeon CPU with 512KB cache (code name: Prestonia, hyper-threading technology), DDR memory, PCI-X I/O, Gigabit LAN and U160 for SCSI HDD.

The Acer Altos G700 has been designed to meet the needs of corporate and large SMEs who require a reliable and powerful server with large storage capacity, high security, and future expandability.

The Acer Altos G700 is positioned as a professional server, designed to appeal to the needs of the larger SME or corporate market segments. Offering superb expandability and a rich array of features, the Acer Altos G700 is designed to eliminate concerns over future compatibility and usability while offering a convenient and highly manageable solution for today. The tool-less design of the Acer Altos G700 ensures easy maintenance and expansion.