Serving large organisations

"IMS saves us hours of searching and sorting through pictures. The system is intuitive to use, works from both of our campuses and gives us excellent control over how images are used. The system is easy to use, very immediate, functional and innovative. The time saved and ease-of- access makes it great value for money."

Rebecca Bowerman, Anglia Ruskin University

IMS Appliances

Standalone IMS Server Solutions

IMS is a high-quality, high-performance product that can be used departmentally or on the internet. An IMS Appliance is the perfect solution for businesses with large collections to host in-house.

The IMS Appliance is available in several configurations, or can be customised to suit your own requirements. After a build and test period, IMS Appliances are supplied to you pre-built and ready to use on your network, or hosted for you in our data centre.

All IMS servers are built by experienced UNIX software and hardware experts, with long, trouble-free service in mind backed by a 2 year warranty. We take pride in producing high-quality systems.

IMS Server Specifications

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Product type	IMS Business Appliance	IMS Corporate Appliance
Chassis	1U 19" Rackmount Floor-standing available	5U" Rackmount Floor-standing available
Power Supply	Single, fixed	Hot swap redundant pair
Hot Swap	Disks	Disks, fans, PSUs
Environmental	10C - 35C operating	10C - 35C operating
Processors	1 x Intel Xeon Dual Core	2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core
Memory	2GB ECC 667MHz	4GB+ ECC 800MHz
Network Interfaces	2 x 10/100/1000baseT	2 x 10/100/1000baseT
Hard drives	3 x 80GB 7.2k SATA	Up to 12 x 400GB 15k SCSI/SAS
Storage scheme	RAID 1 mirror with hot spare	RAID 5 array with hot spare
RAID cache	128MB on-board	256MB on-board
Operating system	Debian Linux v2.6	Debian Linux v2.6
Files capacity	50,000+*	500,000+*
Backups	Optional integration	Fully redundant pair of servers
Network Services	HTTP FTP SMTP SSH MySQL SOAP Web Services	HTTP HTTPS FTP SMTP SSH MySQL Serial Console SOAP Web Services
Firewall	Built-in, pre-configured	Built-in, pre-configured

* The number of pictures that can be stored is estimated, based on average image file sizes: exact numbers depend on file type and other factors such as compression.

Third Light has made a corporate responsibility commitment to deploy power-saving servers and to operate a green data centre. We will select appropriate hardware and minimise the power consumption of your servers using intelligent software management as part of this commitment.