Systems Management incorporates desktop, device & server design and allows us to capture and aggregate knowledge about the infrastructure enabling us to optimise IT structures, reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery. These integrated and automated management solutions enable IT organisations to be more dynamic and productive service providers to their businesses, closing the gap between operations, and IT.
Benefits:
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Gain a more consistent experience across the organisation.
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Reduce costs and increase productivity. IT staff can easily install new programs and security updates from a central location instead of updating each desktop separately.
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Deploy software updates faster by using automated software deployment tools.
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Enhance security. Configuration settings and policies that govern the deployment of software help ensure that systems are less vulnerable to security threats.
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Reduce downtime. Monitoring services help streamline the process for determining the root cause of the problem, and facilitate quick resolutions.
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Administer the network more easily and more thoroughly by consolidating management consoles.
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Communicate better with direct connectivity between corporate networks and devices.
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Keep data more secure with corporate security policies including the ability to set password policies and remotely wipe devices.
Professional Advantage specialises in the implementation of the following Device Management products:
Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager - comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. It is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into and control over IT systems from a single point.
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager - is an end-to-end service-management product that works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organisations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment.
Microsoft System Centre Essentials is specifically designed for midsize businesses (up to 500 client computers and 30 servers). System Center Essentials provides a unified management product that enables IT pros in midsize organisations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.
Data Storage, Protection & Recovery
Business continuity and availability capabilities are crucial for ensuring the success of your business. Protecting your information, making it available around the clock, within tight budgets will continue to challenge your IT organisation.
Establish a comprehensive, integrated, and simple approach to data protection and recovery.
Benefits:
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Improve user productivity by eliminating redundant work caused by lost data.
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Improve IT productivity by dramatically reducing the management efforts around monitoring remote backup jobs and constantly servicing user restore requests.
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Raise employee satisfaction with IT due to less lost data, less downtime, feeling empowered to handle their own issues without "waiting on IT."
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Reduce the cost of backup hardware, software, and media at remote locations.
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Mitigate natural disasters and large crises by automatically and transparently providing disaster recovery of branch offices back to the corporate headquarters.
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Increase cooperation between application stakeholders and server/storage managers in collectively protecting one of your company's key assets-your data.
At Professional Advantage we understand the value that is placed on data storage, protection and recovery and our expertise allows us to deliver complete solutions using a range of products to suit each individual requirements including:
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) - is a member of the Microsoft System Center family. DPM is an integrated Windows backup and recovery solution—delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers to a secondary disk and tape solution on the DPM server allowing rapid and reliable data recovery for organisations of all sizes.
Symantec Backup Exec - provides comprehensive disk and tape backup and recovery support for Windows-based environments. Using continuous data protection for critical Microsoft applications helps to ensure that business critical data is always protected and efficiently restored in seconds.
Establish a comprehensive, integrated, and simple approach to data protection and recovery.
Benefits:
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Improve user productivity by eliminating redundant work caused by lost data.
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Improve IT productivity by dramatically reducing the management efforts around monitoring remote backup jobs and constantly servicing user restore requests.
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Raise employee satisfaction with IT due to less lost data, less downtime, feeling empowered to handle their own issues without "waiting on IT."
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Reduce the cost of backup hardware, software, and media at remote locations.
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Mitigate natural disasters and large crises by automatically and transparently providing disaster recovery of branch offices back to the corporate headquarters.
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Increase cooperation between application stakeholders and server/storage managers in collectively protecting one of your company's key assets-your data.
Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-performance, fully resilient, highly scalable storage solution, which can distribute the data capacity between the respective application servers as required. This makes for a more effective distribution of storage resources and also allows for specialised ‘high-speed’ fibre storage devices. Coupling SAN’s with Virtualisation enables virtual machines to be moved in real time across physical hosts without impacting end user connectivity and performance.
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Greatly increased the throughput performance (Fibre based SAN storage systems can perform 700% faster than their SCSI storage equivalents).
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Consolidate and centralize all storage. Save on the amount of wasted parity RAID disks used throughout all systems.
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Save on the amount of wasted hot-spares used throughout all systems, since you can now utilize central hot-spares that can “float” across all SAN RAID sets.
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Great scalability – Single storage subsystems capable of starting with merely a few hundred GB of storage are able to scale to multiple TB.
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High degree of fault tolerance. Fault tolerance can be built into almost every subcomponent of the SAN: power supply, controllers, cache, arbitrated loops, SAN paths, SAN switches, host bus adapters, etc.
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“plug and play”: you can add or remove devices to a SAN without needing to interrupt the services of other devices connected to the SAN.
