Windows® Essential Server Solutions

Windows® Essential Server Solutions is a family of server software based on innovations that simplify the deployment, ongoing management, and use of server technology. They provide an integrated IT infrastructure that saves time and money, and significantly increases productivity.

Windows® Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008)

Designed for companies with up to 75 computers, SBS 2008 is an all-in-one solution that simplifies server management by bringing together and optimising key business technologies into a single product. It provides many of the features used by larger companies – Internet connectivity, internal Web sites, remote access, file and printer sharing, backup, and restore – all at an affordable price.

Opportunity

Use Windows® Small Business Server 2008 to address the following customer concerns:

• Cutting costs and increasing the value of resources and equipment: share internet access, printers, fax machines and more to get the most value from your technology investments
• Compatibility and scalability: as your business needs change easily add users, servers and applications
• Increasing productivity and efficiency: an integrated admin console, easy-to-use interfaces and a central repository for storing and sharing information
• Protection of data: automatic back up, recovery of accidentally deleted files and antispam and antivirus protection.
• Customer relationships: stay connected with customers, with access to email, contacts and more from virtually anywhere, at anytime

Benefits: • Reliable and predictable IT foundation • Helps small businesses safeguard data and grow business capacity • Affordable and easy to install and manage

Windows® Essential Business Server (EBS)

A solution designed specifically for the needs of midsize businesses with up to 300 computers, EBS 2008 simplifies your environment by bringing together Microsoft technologies into a single solution with a fully integrated installation and administration experience. This solution eliminates guesswork by offering a standardised configuration that is preconfigured according to best practices. It puts customers in control with simplified setup, migration, and licensing and delivers both time and cost savings.

Opportunity

Use Windows® Small Business Server 2008 to address the following customer challenges

• Cost cutting and simplification: a single point of access through a unified admin console, and a single product incorporating multiple technologies
• Increasing productivity: do more both in and out of the office with remote access, antispam and antivirus protection, and improved messaging technologies
• Lowering complexity and improving control: automate routine tasks, manage your environment from a single access point, reduce installation steps, and simplify licensing
• Customer relationships: stay connected with customers, with access to email, contacts and more from virtually anywhere, at anytime

Benefits: • Reliable and predictable IT foundation • Affordable with simplified licensing • Increase efficiency • More control over IT environment • Supports more users