IBM Lotus Foundations Start V1.0 delivers essential software required
to run a small business. Lotus Foundations Start provides a unique
combination of reliability, security and simplicity while helping to
reduce cost and complexity.
Whether you need to set up an office network, connect branch offices,
protect your data, or provide remote access, e-mail, and
collaboration capabilities to your employees, Lotus Foundations Start
can help.
Run your business on a reliable and security-rich server. An
extremely small server footprint and a Linux-based operating system
provide high reliability, security features, and business continuity.
Help save time and costs in manual day-to-day IT management, while
adding simplicity and reliability to your IT infrastructure. The
unique self-managing autonomics reduces IT complexity, automating
many critical functions including installation, configuration,
security checks, and overall system management.
Facilitate the creation and sharing of information in your company.
Easily share calendars and schedule meetings with IBM Lotus Notes and
Domino collaboration software.
Help reduce cost of ownership with Lotus office productivity tools.
Work on spreadsheets, presentations, and documents without purchasing
expensive office software or upgrades.
Have the peace of mind that your data is reliably backed up with
frequent automated disk backups, and in the event of a disaster,
usually execute a full system recovery within minutes.
Protect your business with integrated firewall, antivirus and
antispam software.
IBM Lotus Foundations Start V1.0, the first in a series of Lotus
Foundations servers:
Provides core IT services needed to run any small business including
setting up a security-rich network or connecting branch offices.
Helps save time and costs by automating manual day-to-day IT
management with unique self-managing and self-configuring server
autonomics.
Provides the reliability and security you deserve with a small
footprint Linux-based server, while being extremely easy to use.
Protects and stores your electronic data with frequent, automated,
highly reliable backups. Eliminates the necessity to buy expensive
third-party backup software.
Quickly executes a full system recovery in the event of a disaster.
Facilitates the creation and sharing of information, e-mail, and
calendars using IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software.
Helps save cost with IBM Lotus Symphony office productivity tools
that enable you to work on spreadsheets, presentations, and documents
without purchasing expensive office software and upgrades.
Protects your business with integrated firewall, antivirus and
antispam software.
Helps increase productivity with optional business applications that
quickly automate critical activities in sales, marketing, and human
resources.
Planned availability dates:
May 30, 2008 (electronic software delivery and documentation online).
July 30, 2008 (media).
Availability of Programs with encryption algorithm in France is
subject to French government approval.
Enabling companies to focus on business instead of IT, Lotus
Foundations Start V1.0 provides essential software required to run
your business with reliability, security and simplicity - an ideal
server for businesses with up to 500 users with limited budgets and
IT resources.
Delivering the power of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, and working as a
complete small and medium business infrastructure solution, Lotus
Foundations Start provides network security, firewall, data backup,
disaster recovery, Web, remote access, file and print and directory
services, e-mail, collaboration and office productivity tools.
Features
Easily set up a security-rich office network or connect your network
to the Internet or to other branch offices.
Is self-managing (autonomic) and quickly gathers information about
its network surroundings, allowing you to easily set up your network
or auto-configure your firewall and VPN.
Provides any time and anywhere access to the network with remote
access and Webmail capabilities.
Helps stop viruses and spam at the network level with integrated
antivirus and antispam software.
Interoperates and shares files between Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX
workstations.
Reduce cost and complexity with unique server autonomics.
The more complex a system, the more it will cost to manage it.
The unique self-managing and self-configuring server autonomics helps
automate many critical functions including installation,
configuration, and management of the overall system - ensuring
simplicity and reliability in your IT infrastructure, and reducing
time and cost in manual day-to-day IT management.
Protect your company data with local and encrypted backup. Integral
to Lotus Foundations is a patented intelligent disk backup system
that helps ensure safe and reliable data backup.
Hot swappable disk technology
Intelligent management of stored data
Frequent incremental backups
Additional redundancy options with software RAID
Plan for reliable disaster recovery. In just a few minutes, you can
recover from almost any type of system failure into a fully
functional state.
Lotus Foundations Start server has a small footprint - about half the
size of typical operating systems with similar features. Because of
the small footprint, copies of the operating system as well as the
configuration files are stored on every disk on the server. This high
level of redundancy helps ensure a quick and full system recovery.
Provide e-mail, shared calendaring, and collaboration with Lotus
Notes and Domino.
Easily share information and quickly respond to customers. Share
calendars, organize e-mail, create, share, and print documents.
Help reduce cost of ownership with Lotus office productivity tools
and work on spreadsheets, presentations, and documents without
purchasing any additional software.
Import, edit, and save work in a variety of file types including
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
Access to reliable Webmail with Lotus Domino Web Access.
Provide flexibility with a variety of mail clients, including Lotus
Notes, Lotus Domino Web Access, and the ability to work with
Microsoft Outlook using Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook.
No need to switch between applications - access e-mail, calendars,
documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and applications quickly from
a single interface. Use business applications, create documents, and
search the Web without ever leaving the Lotus Notes software
interface.
Benefits
Run your business on a reliable and security-rich server designed
especially for small businesses.
Get essential software in one highly affordable package.
Help save time and costs with a unique self-managing and
self-configuring server.
Easily set up a security-rich network or connect your office network
to the Internet or to other branch offices.
Protect your business-critical and confidential electronic data,
without purchasing expensive third-party software.
Rest assured that in the event of a disaster, you can do a full
system recovery.
Connect and collaborate with advanced collaboration capabilities,
without the complexities and high price tag. Easily share and
communicate information with customers, partners, and colleagues.
Enable the mobile workforce with offline access to mail folders and
Lotus Domino-based business applications.
Provide any time and anywhere access with Webmail that is intuitive,
fast, and scalable.
Help reduce cost of ownership with access to a variety of mail client
options including Lotus Notes 8.0.1 and support for access to
Microsoft Outlook with the inclusion of Lotus Domino Access for
Microsoft Outlook.
Help save costs with bundled office productivity tools, and work with
spreadsheets, documents, and presentations, without purchasing
expensive third-party office software.
Help boost business productivity with integrated business
applications (optional).
IPLA and Subscription and Support considerations
IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within,
but not limited to an enterprise. Subscription and Support will be
available in the country in which the agreement is made.
IBM is expanding its small and medium business strategy to focus on
companies with less than 500 employees.
Lotus Foundations Start is the first in a future family of small
business servers that are planned to deliver simple, affordable, and
essential software, enabling companies to focus on business rather
than IT. Add-on business applications are currently planned to be
offered over time, after the initial release of Lotus Foundations
Start. A Lotus Foundations communication server is also currently
planned. Other offerings may be delivered, over time, according to
market demand at IBM's discretion. IBM also plans to allow system
integrators and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to integrate
their new or existing applications into the Lotus Foundations
platform, over time.
Product plans may change at any time at IBM's sole discretion based
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IBM System x3200 M2 Model Number: 4367-42U (Hot Swap)
IBM System x3200 M2 Model Number: 4367-22U (Simple Swap)
IBM System x206 Model Number: 8482-3MU
IBM System x226 Model Number: 8646-0AU
IBM System x236 Model Number: 8841-01U
IBM System x346 Model Number: 8840-01U
IBM System 3105 Model Number: 4347-64x and Model Number: 4347-22x
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IBM System 3250 Model Number: 4365-6BU
IBM System 3400 Model Number: 7975-5AU
Other third-party hardware that is not certified should comply with
the following requirements:
Minimum hardware server requirements:
x86-based system
At least one hard disk (removable hard disk required to use all of
the features)
At least one Network Interface Card (NIC) (two NICs required to use
all of the features)
CD-ROM drive
VGA-based video card
At least 1 GB of RAM
Monitor
Keyboard
For additional information on hardware needs, refer to the capacity
planning document on the product website
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/products/foundations
Further compatibility can be checked with a compatibility and burn-in
tool included in Lotus Foundations to confirm compatible device
drivers and chipsets.
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server is deemed incompatible, as that specific model has not been
tested and validated in our lab.
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