Database Publishing Systems, Inc. was approached by their largest customer to find a way to make their application available from a central location for users throughout the customer’s global enterprise over both low and high bandwidth connections. In the past, using either Citrix or Microsoft’s Terminal Services could have easily fulfilled this request but because the client needed it to be run with a Macintosh application, a new solution needed to be found. A solution was found for those users who had high bandwidth connections but an easy solution for the medium and low bandwidth connections was not. Prior to discovering Aqua Connect, the best idea they had was to use Apple’s built-in screen sharing capabilities on a one-to-one basis. Aqua Connect enabled them to allow both themselves and their customer to manage their installations centrally and have a common user experience throughout their enterprise.

They installed Aqua Connect on their Xserves running Mac OS X 10.5 server software. Their servers are farm nodes of Dual Socket Quad-Core Intel Nehalem Xserves with 16 GB of memory and internal SSD RAIDs in both their main and disaster recovery data centers. In addition to ACTS, they are also using Adobe InDesign CS4, Actual Technologies ODBC for SQL and their DPS AdTracker™ X: Enterprise Edition software. They connect to a backend Windows Server 2008 running SQL Server 2008 for DB and a Windows Failover Cluster for SMB file sharing. Client computers include a mixture of Mac and Windows machines that connect to their hardware running ACTS via Microsoft’s

RDP-compatible software. Their users all connect via either point-to-point circuits or VPN tunnels back to remote sites.

Database Publishing Systems, Inc. plans to leverage Aqua Connect internally for themselves to create a robust test environment for their sales staff to demonstrate their products as well as ACTS to their clients.