20 Years Of Innovation

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Since 1992 Boston’s mantra has been to excel in all our activities. With a dedication to helping our partners succeed, we strive to always provide our clients with first-to-market technology and award-winning, tailored solutions that are customised to fit their exact specifications.

Now with 20 years of experience, Boston is confident that we can help you excel too.

Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston Limited

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TaBle of coNTeNTs2 - Why Boston?

3 - Boston Labs

4 - Leasing

5 - Boston Venom™

6 - Boston Quattro™

7 - Boston Viridis™

13 - Boston Cloud™

14 - Boston Igloo Storage™

15 - Boston Value Series™

16 - Boston Superflex Blade™

17 - Boston Fenway™

18 - Liquid Cooling

To excel In all our activities

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Why Boston?

a Team DeDIcaTeD To You

Boston is dedicated to the satisfaction of every customer. Thanks to our in-house expertise from our technically trained sales team to our world-class engineers, our team is here to help.

BosToN laBs

Boston offers a world-class labs facility, giving our resellers and their customers the ability to test the latest products and technologies first-hand. This includes remote access to our servers; allowing you to perform testing from the comfort of your office.

20 Years of INNovaTIoN

Boston has been providing first-to-market technology to a diverse client base since 1992. In 1994, Boston became the first company to bring Silicon Valley-based Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDQ: SMCI) to Europe, reselling their high-performance, energy efficient motherboards, chassis and server systems. Since then Boston has become one of Supermicro’s most respected technology partners and a world renowned systems integrator, designing our own award-winning range of server, storage and workstation solutions.

BosToN WorlDWIDe

Since its founding in London, UK, Boston has expanded operations globally. Following on from the successful launch of Boston IT Solutions India in 2009, Boston launched Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH in Germany a year later, with offices also opening on the West and East coast, USA in 2012.

TaIlor-maDe soluTIoNs

Boston’s high performance, mission-critical server and storage solutions can be tailored for each specific client. We help you create your ideal solution – customising the specification, design and even full custom branding – helping you solve your toughest business challenges simply and effectively.

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New and improved technologies are emerging all the time, and this can be a daunting situation for customers planning their future projects. Making the right decision about new hardware is a difficult proposition, made even harder when clients are unable to test and understand the hardware first before making their purchase.

We recognise this challenge, so to help our clients make informed decisions about new technologies, we have opened up our research & development facilities and actively encourage customers to try the latest platforms using their own tools and if necessary together with their existing hardware.

Understandably, some customers may not be able to visit our labs in person. Therefore arrangements can be made for test systems to be set up in our labs with remote access via RDP, SSH or other means; enabling you to trial our solutions from wherever you are in the world.

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Leverage our expertiseExpert help every step of the way

Be the firstTo access the latest and future technologies

At your convenienceAnytime remote dial-in access

Site visits availableBoston Labs welcomes you to the facility

HelpINg Your BusINess groW WITH BosToN laBs

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leasing

g

monthly£930.76

Quarterly£2751.00

monthly£322.77

Quarterly£954.00

monthly£465.89

Quarterly£1377.00

Whatever your budget we can help. You can lease a £10,000 product for as little as £322.77 per month

1year 2years 3years

Boston Limited is pleased to be able to offer its customers a range of flexible leasing solutions. Leasing is an option that continues to grow in popularity for businesses worldwide as it allows customers to take advantage of new technologies within a budget that suits them.

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The Boston Venom family offers a complete range of liquid-cooled, GPU-accelerated

workstations designed specifically to cater for the ever increasing demands within the Media & Entertainment arena.

Utilising NVIDIA®’s Tesla® Graphics Processing Unit companion processors alongside the latest multi-core x86 processor technologies from Intel® and AMD®, the Venom series offers incredible levels of density, CPU power and GPU performance.

An innovative new addition to the Venom range is our NVIDIA Maximus™-inspired workstations. NVIDIA Maximus Technology combines the visualization capabilities of NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs with the HPC processing power of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs – all within a compact midi-tower chassis.

The Venom 2300-series enables product design, animation and other digital content creation professionals to accelerate applications such as Autodesk® Maya, AutoCAD, Catia and Solidworks®.

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• High density, GPU-accelerated workstations

• Designed for high-performance graphics, parallel processing and high-speed rendering

• Visualise and simulate at the same time on a single system using NVIDIA Maximus technology

• NVIDIA Tesla or AMD Firestream ready

• Liquid cooling options for low noise operation

Boston venom™

High

gpu-enhanced Workstations

performance

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Boston venom 2000-7T ‘… the Venom 2000-7T should be on the top of your list’

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Imagine the computational power of up to 8 HPC systems within one enclosure: utilising

the same space as a standard server, but delivering the power of many.

Boston’s Quattro servers demonstrate this concept perfectly. By providing a unique combination of 2, 4 or 8 hot-plug system nodes in a single enclosure, the Quattro range provides industry leading processing density, performance and low power consumption.

The Quattro range has proven to be a massively popular product and, due to the overall savings made in the total cost of ownership, it is therefore no wonder it’s being utilised within many market sectors; such as HPC, Media & Entertainment, Visual FX, Oil & Gas and Financial simulations.

An example of such a customer is CERN who have deployed just under 5,000 processor cores using Intel® Xeon®-based Quattro servers.

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• Multi-node server solutions offering industry leading processing density

• Up to 2 dual processor nodes in a 1U configuration, 4 nodes in 2U and 8 nodes in 4U

• Support for Intel Xeon processor E5 family and AMD®’s 16-core Opteron 6000-series processors

• VMWare® certified solutions

• High performance 10GbE and QDR infiniband interconnect options

Boston Quattro™

unrivalled

processingDensity

performance &

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Boston Quattro 1264-T01 ‘A highly cost effective alternative to blade servers’

The future of low power

computing is Here...

THe WorlD’s fIrsT HYperscale servers

Hyperscale Computing represents an inflexion point in the industry that will disrupt the very concept of a server in future systems. Modern servers have come a long way, but they are nonetheless fundamentally based around designs originally created decades ago.

Racks of individually connected, high-power, low density servers and blades are installed in modern data centres thousands at a time. Each of these server systems requires its own networking infrastructure, high power distribution, HVAC, and maintenance engineers to take care of it when things go wrong. These inefficiencies could cost data centres billions.

The Boston Viridis uses Server-on-Chip (SoC) technology to integrate the CPU (powered by ARM®), networking and IO onto the server chip. SoC technology, which began life as an embedded systems technology but is primed to storm the data centre in the next few years allows for mass levels of integration at high density requiring little active cooling. With this technology today we can now configure over a thousand servers in a standard 42U rack. The ultra-Dense

providing one Node per 0.0416u

arm-Based cluster

The Boston viridisProvides the following

VIRIDISMicroserver

90% space & power

reduction 5W per Node

Scalable NAS ApplianceScale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments

Hadoop ApplianceThe open source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications

• A complete turnkey solution for Apache Hadoop offering a highly scalable, tunable and easy to deploy platform bundled with Apache Hadoop

• Enables applications to scale computational independent low power servers with petabytes of data

• Provides scale-out NAS for easy management of unstructured data

• Offers an easily deployed, simple to configure scale-out storage solution built with Gluster technology

48 Node ultra-low

power arm

cluster 192 cores per 2u

system

Linux Server Farm ApplianceA preconfigured deployment environment to rapidly install and configure the Viridis server.

Cloud ApplianceOpenStack, the open source framework for building private and public IaaS clouds

• Automatically deploy hundreds of servers in minutes with predefined profiles

• Additional configuration modules available to automate the deployment of specific profiles – such as LAMP stack, web development stack, general compute node

• Manage your cloud through a dashboard that gives administrators control, whilst empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface

• Controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources

The Boston Viridis uses the ARM®-based Calxeda EnergyCore™ to create a rack mountable 2U server cluster. The solution comprises of 192 processing cores leading the way towards energy efficient hyperscale computing.

Each 2U chassis contains a total of 12 Calxeda EnergyCards connected to a common mainboard sharing power and fabric connectivity. The Calxeda EnergyCard is a single PCB module containing 4 Calxeda EnergyCore SoCs; each with 4GB DDR-3 Registered ECC Memory, 4 x SATA connectors and management interfaces.

Ethernet switching is handled internally by 80Gb bandwidth on the EnergyCore fabric switch, thereby negating the need for additional switches that consume unnecessary power and add unwanted latency.

Astonishingly, utilising all 48 Calxeda EnergyCore SoCs, the whole package including fabric and management consumes less than 300W - this is achieved as each SoC device consumes just 0.5 to 5 watts of power (depending on load).

With specific applications, the overall combined performance of one 2U Boston Viridis appliance can outperform a whole rack of standard x86 servers, yet at the same time consume 1/10th the power and occupy 1/10th the space making it an excellent investment for datacentres and enterprises alike.

Boston viridis™

TraDITIoNal x86

720x 1U servers, 8 racks

16 switches,1,600 cables

91 kilowatts

89% less eNergY

87% less space

63% less cosT

97% less complexITY

$3.3m BosToN ‘vIrIDIs’ $1m

960 servers, 1 rack, 1 switch

20 cables, 8.4 kilowatts

WeBsITe soluTIoN for 5mIllIoN HITs/secoND

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• 192 cores per 2U enclosure

• Ten times the performance at the

same power in the same space

• Cut energy and space by 90%

• Industry leading low power

consumption (<300W)

according to financial firmoppenheimer, such machines

will account for 21 percent of“ “ the server market by 2016

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Boston bring the power of the Cloud to the enterprise with our range of fully integrated, high

performance Cloud-based solutions.

We offer Compute and Storage options that are compatible with your current applications and are designed to coexist with your existing I.T. infrastructure; enabling you to move faster, respond quicker and accelerate innovation.

Boston’s Business-in-a-Box solutions, powered by CA AppLogic®, provide a range of turnkey cloud computing platforms for composing, running and scaling distributed applications & infrastructure. Customers can now have access to self-service cloud based computing resources, core computing power, storage, operating systems, and applications.

Designed for resellers, ISV’s and enterprises, Boston’s Cloud platform will help you eliminate the binding of software to hardware through the use of virtual appliances, removing the major obstacle in accessing true cloud computing technology.

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• A unique range of Cloud Solutions – for Compute and Storage needs

• ‘Business-in-a-Box’ – delivers Cloud services fast

• Quickly offer new services such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, VPDC

• Easily able to replicate services for other departments and customers

• Have access to self-service Cloud-based computing resources

Boston cloud™

Driving the power of the

cloud to the enterprise

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Boston Igloo storage™

High

High availabilitystorage for the

cloud and Hpc

performance

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Boston Igloo Nxstor sBB ‘Offers a superb range of network storage features along with top

performance and a remarkable expansion potential’

Our multi-award winning range of Igloo Storage servers offer fault-tolerant storage that

ensure maximum uptime, industry leading performance and value for money with no expense spared in terms of integrity, availability and security of your data.

They have been designed from the ground up to meet the ever increasing demands of today’s data centre, while helping to eliminate the complexities traditionally associated with storage implementation.

Various models harness the power of Nexenta®’s NexentaStor™, the leading open storage solution that leverages the power of the revolutionary ZFS file system, providing NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage protocols.

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• Designed to provide excellent scalability and value for money

• Up to 144TB in a 4U enclosure

• Power optimisation options available to increase performance & reduce TCO

• 10GbE, FC & InfiniBand interconnect options

• SSD acceleration options delivering 50,000+ IOPS

• Storage O/S options include Nexenta Windows® Storage Server & Open-E®

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Boston Value Series Servers have been designed specifically to provide a range of lower cost

alternatives to Tier 1 brands whilst still using the latest in server technology.

The range includes desktop workstations and rack mountable servers compatible with the latest multi-core AMD® or Intel® processors; all power optimized to reduce your operational costs and cooling requirements.

All systems are also pre-installed with the Microsoft® Windows® Operating System, and are designed to handle traditional IT services such as web and email serving, network gateway security and dedicated hosting.

Our most recent offering, the Boston Value Series 120 G8, has been described by PC Pro Magazine as: “good value with an impressively low power draw”, and other solutions in the range have stood up as: good value packages with plenty of hardware redundancy”.

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• Ideal for businesses in need of highly efficient networking, virtualisation and messaging solutions

• Offering next day delivery with onsite warranty as standard

• High performance solutions based on the latest technologies

• Pre-installed with Windows Server®

2008 R2

• Designed and validated in partnership with Supermicro

Boston value series™

simple,

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Boston value series 380 g8 ‘Good value, especially given that it packs a pair of the latest high performance 8-core Xeon E5 processors’

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The Boston SuperFlex Blade™

brings the industry a new dimension of flexibility by

offering the greatest range of server technologies within a single managed enclosure.

Optimised for hybrid computing, Boston’s SuperFlex Blade™ GPU blade is designed for the most demanding applications, requiring high speed and high density processing with maximum GPU and CPU compute performance. The latest technologies from Intel, NVIDIA and other partners allow the SuperFlex GPU blade to achieve phenomenal levels of heterogeneous computing power.

This flexible architecture allows for a mixture of different functions including GPU compute, high density storage, virtualisation, remote workstation appliances and high performance computing; all within a single enclosure. This allows for a final solution created to mirror bespoke requirements from a family of standardised products.

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• Multi-core hybrid compute architecture

• 7U enclosure with 10, 14 or 20 blade options

• Blade options include GPU, Quad CPU, storage, virtualisation and workstation

• High performance 10GbE and QDR InfiniBand interconnect options

• Easy to manage modular enclosure

Boston superflex Blade™

The World’s

Hybrid Blade solution

most flexible

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charles liang, ceo and president of supermicro‘Easy to deploy, easy to use, and offering the best price-to-performance and profit

potential available to our customers’

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If you require a mission critical computing solution that provides unrivalled levels

of performance, then the Boston Fenway range is perfect for your requirements.

The Boston Fenway enterprise server range represents the very best in Boston’s high performance, mission critical servers; leveraging decades of quality and innovation in terms of hardware design and build quality whilst incorporating the very latest generation of Intel® & AMD® processors and GPUs from NVIDIA® & AMD.

These highly scalable servers provide a balanced architecture for large data intensive and diverse technical computation applications; delivering an open, industry-standard server platform that can help tackle even the most demanding workloads.

The Fenway range has been designed and optimised to meet the demands of enterprise applications. These include large databases, OLTP, server consolidation, virtualisation and cloud infrastructure environments for complex workloads.

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• High Density and high availabilty servers

• Designed for mission-critical computing environments

• Ideal for large databases, HPC and business applications

• 4 and 8 way multi-processor options

• Up to 2TB DRAM configurations for memory intensive applications

Boston fenway™

High Quality

enterprise class solutions

High performance

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EW Boston fenway 1580-06 ‘A hugely capable 8-way server, with the bonus of GPU processing capabilities if needed’

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liquid cooling

Many of the current efforts around solving heat problems fall short of providing a cost effective and scalable long term solution. Technology simply progresses too fast for them to be viable.

Standard air cooling is fundamentally inefficient and doesn’t address heat production at the device level. Other approaches, such as spot cooling, can require significant and costly structural redesign.

lIQuID coolINg TecHNologY Is THe aNsWer.

By fully submerging the server’s components in an environmentally friendly, dielectric fluid, liquid cooling maintains a core temperature within the system – at least 30°C lower than traditional servers – while eliminating the need for expensive air conditioning.

Liquid-cooled server solutions, such as the innovative Liquid Submerged Server (LSS™) 220 by Liquid Cooled Solutions, are able to run High Frequency Trading applications up to 10% faster than stock-speed servers without sacrificing reliability, while reducing cooling costs by over 80%.

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BeNefITs of lIQuID coolINg

• Profound reductions in overall power consumption and cost

• Up to a 55% reduction in data centre footprint

• Ability to overclock with little or no increase in core temperature

• Product and component life spans that stretch well beyond current standards

• Ability to recycle and reuse waste heat

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NYse euronext, www.computerWorlduK.com‘The need for low-latency trading is constantly fuelling innovation within the financial services industry.

We are delighted to be able to support this technology which helps our clients trade more efficiently.’

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Turn-key Cloud Solutions

High Availability Storage

High Performance Computing

Award Winning Products

Enterprise Class Liquid Cooling

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