With more and more South African companies moving to adopt the benefits of server virtualisation, corporate fax specialist Vox Amvia has reminded its customers not to leave fax servers out of their virtualisation strategies.
“Many of our RightFax clients are implementing or planning server virtualisation projects to take advantage of benefits like maximising the value of their hardware investments, better uptime and lower costs,” says Vox Amvia’s Boudje Giljam. “But many of them don’t realise that fax can also be part of their virtualisation strategy.”
The problem, says Giljam, is that the vast majority of fax servers are based on physical fax boards, which means they can’t be virtualised. “More recent fax boards include IP fax capability so that clients can integrate fax into their VoIP environments, but it’s still a physical piece of hardware. That’s been an obstacle to those who have wanted to virtualise their RightFax servers.”
Now, says Giljam, Vox Amvia has sourced boardless fax server software which, together with new virtualisation support offered in RightFax version 9.4, will enable clients to include faxing in their virtualisation strategies.
“RightFax 9.4 supports VMWare ESX server 3.0.1 or higher as standard,” says Giljam. “We’re advising our clients to combine this with Brooktrout SR140 boardless fax over IP software, which will enable full virtualisation of RightFax.”
“We’ve been deploying RightFax servers and fax over IP solutions using Brooktrout SR140 software for some time, and we’re confident that it offers a robust and reliable solution,” says Giljam. “It’s interoperable with all leading IP-PBX and VoIP gateways and can be deployed directly into SIP, H.323, or MGCP environments via Ethernet interfaces.”
