Accelerating Your Success™
Software
More effective
systems management from
Microsoft
®
and Avnet Technology Solutions
Avnet is one of the largest distributors of technology solutions, connecting the world’s leading technology manufacturers with a broad base of customers by providing cost-effective value-added services and solutions.
Microsoft’s vast product range represents significant opportunities for the market. There has never been a better time to get more acquainted with Microsoft and Avnet Technology Solutions.
Support, advice and training
Avnet is a Value Added Distributor for Microsoft Systems Management. It’s a status which lets us give you
unrivalled hands-on resource and support, including: Four dedicated Microsoft specialists
Two Systems Management MCPs
Quarterly business development planning
Hands-on product and technical training with free
guided installs*
End-user lead-generation marketing
Focused and dedicated training events every quarter.
*Star Partners only
A range of solutions which allow your customers to integrate the management of all aspects of their infrastructure in physical and virtual environments – across data centres, desktops and devices.
Microsoft System Center components include:
Data Protection Manager
The new standard for Windows backup and recovery, delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media.
Configuration Manager
Comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices – across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments.
operations Manager
An end-to-end service-management solution that’s the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping
organisations increase efficiency while delivering greater control of their IT environment.
Virtual Machine Manager
A management solution for today’s virtualised data centre, enabling centralised management of the IT infrastructure, while increasing server utilisation capability and dynamic resource optimisation.
Why
Avnet Technology Solutions?
What is
Microsoft System Center?
How to drive your business with Microsoft System Center
Microsoft System Center gives your customers a real business advantage by providing them with the power to more effectively manage all their IT components.
Comprising four core products, Microsoft System Center solutions help your customers reduce costs, improve availability and enhance service through better management of their infrastructure, policies, processes and best practices.
This guide explains what Microsoft System Center solutions are, and how they can help you enter another dimension of sales. And remember – there’s no one better positioned to support you in selling Microsoft System Center solutions than Avnet Technology Solutions.
Avnet Technology Solutions believes in helping its partners to achieve the most from their sales opportunities.
To find out more about the advantages Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft can bring to your customers and your business, please contact our team of dedicated specialists on 020 8286 5000 or visit
www.the10thdimension.com
Microsoft System Center is the ideal way to drive better and longer standing relationships with your customers thanks to the cross sell opportunities it creates across the suite. Realise higher margins through a lower cost of sale and generate ongoing revenue by selling a complete systems management solution to your customers.
Visit www.the10thdimension.com/management to find out more.
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The best way to acquire the full range of server management functionality on the Windows platform delivered by our System Center products is to deploy one of the two System Center Server Management Suites.
System Center Server Management Suite enterprise
A comprehensive solution for end-to-end management of physical and virtual Windows server environments to enable a dynamic server infrastructure, recommended for licensing of physical boxes and servers with light
virtualisation loads.
System Center Server
Management Suite Datacentre
A cost effective way for customers to manage highly virtualised environments. The System Center server management suite datacenter is licensed per processor and provides rights to manage unlimited operating system environments per device.
How can you best cash in on this opportunity?
That’s where Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solutions come in.
System Center
Server Management Suites
System Centre Server Management Suites
Opportunity spotting
Microsoft System Center solutions can help you open up huge new sales opportunities and revenue streams. Here are just a few of the types of customers you should be talking to in order to get those sales started:
Data Protection Manager
This is the new standard for Windows backup and recovery, delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media. Idealfor customers:
Seeking faster and more reliable backup
Who need to protect advanced Exchange configuration.
Configuration Manager
This solution comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers and devices – across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Ideal for customers:
Looking to improve desktop management
Looking to improve server management and availability.
operations Manager
An end-to-end service-management product that’s the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications; this solution is ideal for customers:
Who need end-to-end service monitoring
Looking to increase the efficiency and control of operations.
Virtual Machine Manager
This is a management solution for increasingly popular virtualised data center, enabling centralised management of the IT infrastructure, increased server utilisation and dynamic resource optimisation. Ideal for customers:
Who want to maximise data centre resources
Who want to carry out rapid provisioning.
To find out more about the advantages Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft can bring to your customers and your business, please contact our team of dedicated specialists on 020 8286 5000 or visit
www.the10thdimension.com
features
Support for simultaneously running different types of
operating systems, including both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems across different server platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and others
Virtual switch capabilities that provide the ability to use
the Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) service to load-balance across virtual machines running on different servers
A Virtualisation Service Provider (VSP) and
Virtualisation Service Client (VSC) architecture, which provides enhanced access and use of hardware resources, such as disks, networking, and video The ability to migrate a running virtual machine from
one physical host computer to another with minimal downtime, leveraging the high availability capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center management tools
Support for multiple processors and cores at the
host level and improved memory access within virtual machines
Support for up to four processors in a virtual
machine environment in order to take advantage of multithreaded applications running in a virtual machine The ability to take snapshots of a running virtual
machine to enable you to easily revert to a previous state, thus improving backup and recoverability solutions.
Benefits
Consolidate servers to reduce power, cooling costs
and space
In the event of a disaster, replicate the same operating
environment in a matter of minutes
Simplify the server management burden through easy
migration of virtual machines from one physical server to the next
Increase business agility by deploying and shifting
computing resources faster to accommodate critical business applications and meet service-level agreements
Live Migration, which increases availability by allowing
customers to move a virtual machine between two virtualisation host servers without any interruption of service.
What is Hyper-V?
Today, customers are increasingly evaluating Hyper-V as an alternative to VMware. And no wonder because Hyper-V is a next-generation virtualisation platform and is packed with unique features and functionality including:
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Make your
Sale
Bigger
What is
Windows Server 2008 R2?
What is Windows Server 2008 R2?
Hyper-V virtualisation offers you the ability to maximise every sale by adding a variety of other
Microsoft products, including Windows Server 2008 – and ideal for Hyper-V technology. By installing and configuring Microsoft System Center, you can help your customer leverage all the capabilities of Hyper-V.
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next-generation of networks, applications and Web services. And it could give your sales a real boost! When combined with Windows 7 client operating system, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 enables your customers to provide your employees with anywhere access to corporate data and resources, while helping to maintain the security of their enterprise systems.
Opportunity spotting
Hyper-V can open up major new sales opportunities and revenue streams. Customers you should be talking to include those who:
want to reduce space, power and cooling Fewer physical machines reduce hardware, energy and management costs.
Need to improve business continuity Hyper-V includes powerful business continuity features, such as live backup and quick migration. think virtualisation is too expensive
Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V makes server virtualisation easy and cost effective by enabling multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine.
Use and test and development environments Using virtual machines, a wide variety of scenarios can be tested in a safe, self-contained environment.
Benefits
With Exchange Server 2010 at its core, Windows Server 2008 R2 offers many benefits to your customers, such as:
A solid, scalable foundation – they can start with the
features they need now and add what they need as their business expands
A highly secure environment – new enhanced data
and network security features provide greater levels of protection for networks, data and business
Built-in virtualisation (Hyper-V) – 64-bit servers allow
the virtualisation of multiple operating systems on a single server, reducing hardware and power costs and improving availability
Richer Web experiences – improved administration
and powerful new tools provide superior web-based solutions and better connectivity
Flexible application access for remote users – users
can access individual applications in a Terminal Server session because applications are run on a host computer and application windows are sent to users A minimised environment for specific server roles –
improves reliability and efficiency, while giving IT departments the ability to better utilise
existing hardware.
Opportunity spotting
Many customers will see major benefits from using Windows Server 2008 R2 – in particular
customers who:
Are looking for a more reliable solution
Need to synchronise multiple operating systems
on a single server
Want to improve security at remote branch
office sites
Need easy log-on over the internet for
remote users
Are interested in a more secure platform
Want to dynamically add physical and
virtual resources.
To find out about the advantages Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V can bring to your customers contact our team of dedicated specialists on 020 8286 5000 or visit www.the10thdimension.com
Microsoft offers a wide range of products, which are even more effective for your customers when pulled together into a complete solution. Plus if you sell multiple Microsoft products there is the opportunity to significantly increase your margin.
Visit www.the10thdimension.com to find out about the range of products from Microsoft and how you can increase your revenue.
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