Servers
Microsoft Technology Solutions
The heart of any network are the servers on which your organizational data is accessed. When you are planning an upgrade or project you need a partner that you can depend on with deep experience and expertise.
Microsoft Unified Communication Suite
Microsoft Unified Communications is a streamlined way to run your organizations communications more effectively. It provides for seamless connectivity between computers.
Microsoft unified communications technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications—messaging, voice, and video—across the applications and devices that people use every day. Integrating the experiences you associate with the telephone—phone calls, voice mail, and conferencing—the work you do on a computer—documents, spreadsheets, instant messaging, e-mail, and calendars—has the power to fundamentally change the way people work. We believe unified communications will transform business in the coming decade in the same way e-mail changed the business landscape in the 1990s.
Unified Communications
• Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
Unified Communications Services Include
• Installation and Configuration of Hardware, OS and Application Support
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 Support
• User and Server Admin Support
• Backup and Clustering Options
• Server Protection including antispam, malware and virus
Server Consolidation and Virtualization
With greater demand on IT to solve business challenges, data centers quickly fill to capacity, and each new server purchase increases capital and operating expenditures as well as power and cooling costs. At the same time, servers are underutilized. Typically, server workloads consume only five percent of total physical server capacity, wasting hardware, space, and electricity. Because of application compatibility issues, IT has to separate applications by running them in different silos and on different servers. This often results in significant server sprawl.
Provisioning new servers is a lengthy, labor-intensive process measured in days and months, making it difficult for IT to keep pace with the rate of business growth and change. For example, the need to provision and tear-down test and development environments can consume valuable resources and time.
Datalink Networks senior engineering staff can analyze your current server environment and produce assessments on the number of servers you can eliminate by consolidating and virtualizing your servers. By selecting the right servers and virtualizing, operating systems and applications can run on a much smaller hardware footprint.
Virtualization Reverses Server Sprawl, Streamlines Provisioning
By consolidating multiple workloads onto a single hardware platform via server (or hardware) virtualization, you can maintain “one application/one server” while reducing physical server sprawl. This allows you to fully support your business with less hardware, resulting in lower equipment costs, less electrical consumption for server power and cooling, and requiring less physical space for the server farm.
Virtualization can also simplify and accelerate provisioning. Adding workload resources can be decoupled from hardware acquisition. If a particular business process requires more capability (say, a web commerce engine), adding this capability becomes streamlined and immediate. In an advanced virtualized environment, workload requirements can be self-provisioning, resulting in dynamic resource allocation.
Consolidation and Virtualization Approach
• Consolidate Servers to reduce server sprawl
• Increase Business Agility through Virtualizing
• Plan for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Streamline Test and Development thorough Virtualizing
• Achieve Cost Savings by Optimizing Software Licensing
• Achieve Cost Savings by Optimizing Hardware Platform
Terminal Server Enterprise Server Solutions
Microsoft Thin Client Technology can provide your organization fast, secure on demand access to centrally stored data via Microsoft terminal server features. This technology can bring information to any device, personal computer, laptop, pda, or smartphone in any work environment local or remote. Microsoft Terminal Server can save your organizations weeks in deployment work since all information and operating systems are housed in your main data center.
Applications are delivered through screen updates across the network freeing you from the worries and expense of security threats to your network. In addition, terminal servers can be a strong foundation for any company concerned with business continuity since all information is stored in a
The Terminal Services server role in Windows Server® 2008 provides technologies that enable users to access Windows-based programs that are installed on a terminal server, or to access the full Windows desktop. With Terminal Services, users can access a terminal server from within a corporate network or from the Internet.
Terminal Services lets you efficiently deploy and maintain software in an enterprise environment. You can easily deploy programs from a central location. Because you install the programs on the terminal server and not on the client computer, programs are easier to upgrade and to maintain.
When a user accesses a program on a terminal server, the program execution occurs on the server. Only keyboard, mouse, and display information is transmitted over the network. Each user sees only their individual session. The session is managed transparently by the server operating system and is independent of any other client session.
Terminal Server Approach
• Reduce User Deployment Cost by 90% by Deploying applications centrally through terminal services
• Reduce network bandwidth utilization by over 50% through terminal services
• Provide faster network access via terminal services than through traditional client server access
• Allow data access on any device anywhere local or through the Internet, home computers, kiosks, low powered hardware and operating systems other than windows
• Extend the life of old desktop PC’s and laptops or reduce the cost of new capital equipment expenditures through terminal services.