Is keeping your IT up to scratch an ever-expanding exercise? Are you wasting time and resources just trying to maintain performance? Now's the time to optimise your IT infrastructure, and give your employees more time to work on projects that matter.

Virtualise your servers to increase their capacity and lower the costs of running hardware. And now, virtualisation capability is included within Microsoft server solutions, making it more affordable for mid-market businesses. Helping you to:

• Optimise IT to save money — consolidate your existing servers with virtualisation and dramatically reduce IT costs by up to 50%*
• Boost IT efficiency — significantly reduce the amount of time your helpdesk staff spend on manual processes, such as patching, migrating and troubleshooting
• Make the most of automated maintenance — increase your overall IT reliability and security with efficient automated network maintenance

*Fox Valley Orthopaedic Institute, customer case study

The Solution

Windows Server 2008 R2 can help you reduce operating costs and increase efficiencies, with improved energy efficiency and lower overhead costs. It also enables your staff to work remotely, while streamlining server management, and expanding server capacity through virtualisation.

Working along side this solution, Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 helps busy IT professionals by diagnosing and resolving IT problems, while Microsoft Forefront Client Security brings enhanced protection and greater control.

Benefits

• Boost productivity and growth — with enhanced manageability and reliability, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 turns a midsize IT infrastructure into a strategic asset
• All the latest versions — of management, messaging, and security server technologies
• Effortless control — of management, messaging, and security server technologies
• Integrated management — of all aspects of IT infrastructures including physical and virtual environments
• Complete protection — Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange includes multiple scanning engines to bring multi-layered protection to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Increased uptime — with optimal performance, effortless management and enhanced security your staff will be able to work more effectively
• Common management methodology — manage your virtual environments with the same tools and processes used for managing physical environments
• Reduced complexity and costs — thanks to the common management methodology, you can reduce costs with server consolidation while minimising confusion

Products required

 

Join us for a free seminar, when we will introduce you to the capabilities of Microsoft's virtualisation solutions "from the data centre to the desktop". You will hear how by implementing these solutions you can realise great savings in computer hardware, electricity and man-power whilst at the same time simplify your IT and discover new options for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Target audience: Business Owners and Managers, IT managers

Dates:

Tuesday 27th April 2010 - Liverpool

Thursday 20th May 2010 - Manchester

Thursday 17th June 2010 - Warrington

Time: 9:00 - 13:00 followed by lunch

To register online please click here or call Vicky on 01925 240342. For the full agenda please click here.

You may also be interested in our seminar on cloud computing or one of our educational webinars.