Currently more than 200 law firms across the country are running Rippe &
Kingston legal applications built on an IBM infrastructure."
According to ISS, RealSecure Server Sensor is designed to provide
automated, real-time intrusion protection and detection by analyzing
events, host logs and inbound and outbound network activity on
critical enterprise servers to block malicious activity from damaging
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appro. The firm plans on adding many new high-productivity features such
as an intranet/extranet and a Web portal this year. Business
partners and solutions providers of all sizes drive iSeries server success
by building, selling and deploying over 6,400 of the world's most popular
business applications for their clients on the iSeries platform.ibm. So it complements our other solutions,
protecting the underlying operating system from operating system
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These products will make a dual processor server capable
of handling up to 64GB per system using 4GB memory modules while a quad
processor server scales up to 128GB. Appro
enables a variety of network computing applications by developing powerful,
scalable, and reliable clusters, servers, storage subsystems and high-end
workstations for the high-performance computing (HPC), Internet computing
and cluster market.

Our iSeries system has not gone down, and I don't have
to worry about managing a farm of separate servers. RealSecure Server Sensor applies built-in signatures
and sophisticated protocol analysis with behavioral pattern sets and
automated event correlation to prevent both known and unknown attacks.
This functionality helps to reduce network security costs while
protecting enterprise server environments and reducing downtime. Detected security incidents are resolved by
The Planet's certified Information Security Engineers.

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In addition, Appro will preview its new upcoming 1U and 3U server products
that will be added to the Appro Xtreme Family of products in Q3/05.
The single iSeries server runs the firm's accounting software, document
management system, Lotus Notes e-mail system and tightly integrated legal
software suite from IBM Business Partner Rippe & Kingston. iSeries systems can run i5/OS, Windows
(via an IXA or IXS), Linux and AIX operating environments simultaneously so
clients can reinvest those savings to grow their business.

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Appro 's headquarters is in Milpitas, CA." Challenged to
maintain its success and adhere to its centuries -old practice of using
experienced law partners to personally perform clients' legal work, the
firm switched from a Microsoft solution that frequently crashed.com. Statements concerning IBM's future development plans and
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"I can now sleep soundly at night," said Barry Winnick, attorney and IT
director , Tyler Cooper & Alcorn.

About the IBM eServer iSeries

The IBM iSeries system is a tightly integrated system including hardware,
middleware, storage and security. "RealSecure isn't affected by network-level encryption
services such as SSL. For
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Appro (http://www.appro. Appro has an R&D and manufacturing
center in Asia and a sales and service office in Houston, Texas.

Having just one server run all the applications helped reduce Tyler
Cooper's IT staff by 50 percent, proves why the iSeries system continues to
be the server of choice for many small to medium-sized businesses."

According to R&K, for a 100-attorney firm, a typical WinTel-based-solution
requires about 15 separate servers and an IT staff of 10 to 12 employees. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of on demand business.

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reliable small platform. It will be a fully-managed service available to all
customers of The Planet, standard with its Total Control (SM) and Focus
Series(SM) products and at a minimal charge with Server Matrix(SM)
customers.
"We want our customers to be covered in more than one way at every
level," explained Ryan Carter, Information Security Manager for The
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The new streamlined IT infrastructure is powered by an IBM eServer iSeries
system running IBM DB2 Universal Database , Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes. "That
means growing the network without growing staff. Carter added that The Planet's ongoing security advancements
demonstrate the company's commitment to offer solutions pioneered by
industry leaders and deliver best-in-class products and services.

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This integrated modular design results in an effective
managed infrastructure that centralizes power, storage and network
connections, reducing cable count and simplifying deployment and
maintenance . The combined R&K-IBM
solution has helped us accomplish that goal and then some. The
Planet's security solution is monitored 24/7 by the firm's dedicated
Security Operation Center.

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To
learn more about technology trends that are experiencing growth in adoption
such as blade servers, AMD Opteron processors, InfiniBand interconnect
fabric and Linux, download a copy of the IDC white paper at www.
Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, one of Connecticut's
oldest and most successful law firms, reduced its IT costs by 45 percent by
choosing IBM over a Microsoft solution to consolidate its sprawling
servers, secure its email system and install a highly reliable on demand IT
infrastructure.

"Our goal is to help Tyler Cooper & Alcorn continue its phenomenal growth
and success," said Ron Sharp, President of Rippe & Kingston, LLC.997 percent uptime, and bullet-proof security. The host-based ,
automated intrusion detection system monitors activity across computer
systems and networks in real-time, allowing instant response to
security breaches.

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provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, and AMD will be
demonstrating the Appro XtremeBlade Solution based on AMD Opteron
processor at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), in San Diego, CA,
booth number 2156.

With 70 lawyers spread across four Connecticut towns, Tyler Cooper provides
a full range of legal services and boasts nine partners on the National
Attorneys Directory of "The Best Lawyers in America. As such,
Tyler Cooper has increased its attorney productivity and is one of a
handful of law firms with a true fail-over, disaster recovery and
virus-free IT environment. With Microsoft , every time you
turn around, you need another server -- seven for document management,
three more for e-mail, and another three to five for financial systems, and
then they'd crash.

Tyler Cooper & Alcorn worked with Rippe & Kingston to implement the Legal
Management System for firm accounting and WANDOCs for document management.

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The XtremeServer product family
will support 2 to 4 Single or Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processors with 8 DIMM
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By switching to R&K LMS V, the highly integrated e-business suite for law
firms , Microsoft server farms can be reduced to a single iSeries, and the
IT staff can be reduced from 12 to four people, freeing eight employees to
do other important tasks.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate.

ABOUT THE PLANET

Launched in 1994 and based in Dallas, The Planet provides a world
of Internet and hosting services and solutions. As one of the fastest
growing managed hosting providers in the United States, the company
serves small businesses and enterprise clients with value -added
services such as advanced server monitoring, database administration,
managed data storage , virtual private networks and more.

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The XtremeBlade server offers great flexibility by mixing blade
configurations from 2-way to 4-way in the same sub-rack clustering
infrastructure. These
new products will provide double the memory availability currently not
available in any other server platforms. "We used Microsoft Outlook on Windows NT
clients and a Microsoft Exchange server .

Approximately 100 people at the firm use the reliable workflows built into
Lotus Notes software to handle meetings and other collaborative tasks on
demand.