USS POSCO
Services provided by LRS, from business to the technical support enabled a purchase and install of a z10 mainframe in record time.
BRANDT
Server consolidation, virtualization, and centralized storage offers Brandt savings through reduction of the company’s IT datacenter footprint, reduction of energy costs, and improved system manageability.
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System has a health center with a 123-bed hospital and outlying clinics that reach thousands of residents of a nine-county region in East Central Illinois. They recently embarked on a consolidation plan to provide more floor space, lower power requirements and 24x7 availability to support its growing dependence on information technology.
Tulare County
This major utility provider needed a complete solution for migrating to current technology, including mainframe hardware, disk and tape storage when IBM planned to discontinue support for their older equipment and their version of VSE.
A Midwestern State University
A Midwestern State University was struggling with the increasing cost of maintaining its aging mainframe hardware, and the extended batch processing window due to the older hardware.
A Large Municipal Utility
This major utility provider needed a complete solution for migrating to current technology, including mainframe hardware, disk and tape storage when IBM planned to discontinue support for their older equipment and their version of VSE.
Alebra Technologies
Alebra realized it was sitting atop a huge competitive advantage in its product’s capabilities for their customer base, yet had limitations to measure those capabilities and provide evidence through benchmarks and testing. In looking for new hardware, Alebra turned to Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS), a certified System z IBM Business Partner, to provide and build their entire new IBM system.
Arizona Public Service
Arizona Public Service (APS) turned to LRS® IT Solutions to upgrade their computing infrastructure which required hardware and software updates in order to support their long term goals. APS recognized the need to refresh existing technology to meet the demands of its end user community and improve the utility’s Disaster Recovery (DR) readiness through the implementation of a remote DR site.
Bound To Stay Bound
BTSB and Agner are completely satisfied with the results of their new infrastructure. The BladeCenter servers allow room for expansion, and they are now investigating the option of installing thin clients with the assistance of LRS IT Solutions.
CWLP
City, Water, Light & Power CWLP, houses the Information Technology Infrastructure for nearly 155,000 residents in Springfield, IL. Providing energy and water is CWLP’s primary function for the city. However, CWLP’s IT department handles all the data transactions for the city’s utilities and municipalities. This includes data storage and transactions for the public sectors of police, fire, schools, substations, treasury, and city clerk.
Hertzberg-New Method, Inc.
The primary computing platform at HNM is an IBM iSeries System. Because HNM employees used green screen terminals, they did not have access to saved iSeries spool files for fax, email and printing purposes. With the customer’s needs in mind, LRS® IT Solutions partnered with Real Vision Imaging (RVI). RVI delivers the most powerful, expandable and reliable document imaging software available for the IBM System i and iSeries.
Macon County, Illinois
LRS® IT Solutions provided Macon County with a web-based solution that allows attorneys and the general public see public court information in real-time. The entire system is hosted on an IBM System i On Demand Server. This secure system provides immediate access to live data, while preventing unauthorized users from seeing confidential information.
Miller Industries, Inc.
LRS® IT Solutions assembled a team including a DR certified consultant to provide Miller Industries a comprehensive hardware solution meeting their long-term goals and business requirements.
Pennington Seed
Due to the gradual growth of required servers, workstations, and mainframe infrastructure, Pennington Seed found itself with servers that required multiple tape drives to be able to perform complete unattended backups. Pennington Seed turned to LRS® IT Solutions for help with implementing a reliable disaster recovery solution.
Sangamon County
The LRS® Innovation Center allows a customer like Sangamon County Integrated Justice System to come into an atmosphere that’s free from the usual obstacles inherent when testing at their own facility. LRS has technical staff in house and available to work with customers during a project like the Sangamon County disaster recovery testing.
