March 5, 2010

In this issue

• Rave.com ReWired - the relaunch of Rave.com
• New Products, including digital signage systems, Sun Ultra 24 mid-tower replacement, rugged mobile computing, and more
• Digital Signage -For the Signs of the Times
  
• In the News
  - Rave Computer Wins with Innovation, Performance, Flexibility, and Service
  - Rave Computer Doubles Michigan Based Revenue in 2009
  - Supporting Local Community with Gift Cards to Assist Families During Holiday Season
• Bits and Bytes – Virtualization technologies tips and tools
• Customer Testimonials
  

Rave Computer is proud to announce Rave.com ReWired, the relaunch of rave.com. In 2009, Rave Computer was the recipient of an Award of Excellence for the redesign of rave.com. While Rave’s intuitive, clean site design remains the same, our mission is to continuously meet the needs of our customers. Rave.com ReWired includes improved navigation, better organization of content, new and improved product layout, in depth services and corporate information, and more!

Key improvements include:

• Solutions – From visualization and simulation, to military grade, digital signage, rugged mobile or industrial computing, Rave offer a broad range of solutions and related products that will fit the needs of your application.
• Products – Rave offers a dynamic portfolio of products that are reliable and comprehensively designed and tested for your specialized requirement. For quick reference, all systems now include a badge symbol that highlights key attributes of each product. Our product offerings include: rackmount systems, tower and desktop systems, mobile computing, small form factor, storage, and rackmount displays.
• Services – We offer a full line up of turn-key services and solutions including consulting, product development, assembly, cabling, bundling, configuration, testing, labeling and documentation of your systems. Rave offers an impressive portfolio of Computer Service offerings that deliver high-performance, sustainable computing solutions to address customer IT needs which includes: Technology consulting, integration services, OEM server/ISV appliance, custom design and engineering, modified commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, and long lifecycle computer consulting.

Digital signage is appearing everywhere in airports, banks and retail stores, ushering in a new era of in-store and on-site advertising and communications. Various industries are using digital signage to increase sales, better communicate with audiences, and enhance the overall image of a company, facility or organization.  Digital signage is expected to increase, prompted by higher impact, lower cost solutions that will be appealing to advertisers and businesses. 

At Rave Computer, we understand your digital signage network has specific needs.  Rave has invested extensively in development, integration, testing, and tuning to produce an effective and scalable digital signage product line that is well suited for digital signage applications. Rave partners with best-of-breed technology companies to architect, customize and deliver digital signage systems. By partnering with Rave, you can be sure that your investment in "best-of-breed" components is maximized, so that you can concentrate on your core business.

Go to www.rave.com/solutions/digitalSignage.php and see why Rave’s Digital Signage hardware solutions are a sign of the times to come.

Rave offers a dynamic portfolio of products and solutions that we will help you manage throughout the defined product lifecycle. We provide complete systems support with one goal in mind; providing our customer with the most reliable and comprehensively designed and tested systems for their specialized requirement.

Rave will also design a system to meet your specifications. Consult with a rave product specialist today and learn how Rave can support you, from design to delivery.

RT-1024 Sun Ultra 24 Replacement Mid-Tower Product Information	RS-2610 Aluminum Fanless Computer - Wall or Monitor Mounting Options for Digital Signage Applications Product Information	RS-3350 Digital Signage System VESA, DIN-rail, & Wall mount options Product Information
RS-2307 Small Form Factor Wallmount Digital Signage Solution Product Information	RS-2945 Wall Mount or Set-Top Digital Signage PC - Low Power Consumption Product Information	Rugged Mobile Computing Rugged handhelds, laptops, tablets, and portables
RR-4058 4U Rackmount Rave Nehalem - Ultra Quiet High-end Graphics System that supports Triple SLI or CrossfireX Product Information	Small Form Factor Systems Featuring Aluminum fanless vehicle PC and computer systems More>>	RR-2235 Rugged Short Depth Rackmount Core 2 Quad Intel - Discreet PCI-Express Graphics Capability Product Information

Chat live with a product specialist, e-mail Rave, or call at (800) 966-7283 for additional information.

Rave Computer Wins with Innovation, Performance, Flexibility, and Service
When Waltonen Engineering, a leading engineering firm in Warren Michigan needed high performance computing hardware, they came to Rave Computer for their demanding requirements. Waltonen required a new high performance system that could optimally operate their 3-D software. They previously purchased their systems through a large name brand OEM. Although the systems were commercial grade and met their basic requirements; the OEM did not offer individualized consulting or a solution that was optimized for their application. Full Story >>

Rave Computer Doubles Michigan Based Revenue in 2009
Rave Computer, an IT systems integrator based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, today reported financial results for its full fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 2009, with a 102% increase in Michigan based revenue. Full Story >>

Rave Computer Supports Local Community with Gift Cards to Assist Families During Holiday Season
Rave Computer, an IT systems integrator based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, presented Mayor Richard Notte with $1,000 in Meijer gift cards to support the local community. The gift cards will be distributed to 40 needy families in the City of Sterling Heights. Full Story >>

Here's what our customers had to say about their Rave Experience

“We were very pleased with the performance of the equipment and the expeditious delivery and thorough customer service provided by Rave, which assisted us in continuing to exceed our customer requirements.”

“Over the years, Rave has provided us with exceptional customer support. We have been very satisfied with the performance of the Rave team, and look forward to working with you in the future.”

Call today to hear our full story and learn how we can help you.

This month's tip is about the different Virtualization technologies in Solaris as developed on Sun Sparc hardware.

Years ago, in the land of dinosaurs, everyone stuck everything on a few large systems. Later, people used cheap hardware based on x86 systems and replaced the big iron. The problem is, people couldn’t scale the apps beyond the confines of the box, so it ended up with server sprawl where you had dozens of vendors, no real remote management, operating systems all over the place and lots of hardware that was provisioned to run for a certain type of load that may have not fully utilized the resources on that system. Somewhere along the way, someone decided that you could stick multiple operating systems and applications on a single piece of physical hardware and you ended up increasing the utilization of the underlying hardware. This translated to lower cost because you needed fewer resources to run the system (cooling, power, and people).

Now, people are deploying more and more virtual systems as a way to deploy a service instead of deploying systems. More on Virtualization Technologies >>