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February 2011

Transforming Desktop Management

Desktop management solutions are features that allow you to reduce the TCO in your organization by making it easier for you to install, configure, and manage clients. In recent years, security-related tasks have become an increasingly large part of desktop management. As a result, an increasingly large proportion of administrative resources have been devoted to security-related tasks, such as patch management, fighting viruses and spyware, and controlling instant messaging, file sharing, and RSS readers. Some of the best Desktop Management Solutions include:

Systems Center Manager
Windows 7
View, from VMware


GOOD TO GO
Why You Should be Using Microsoft Exchange 2010 NOW!
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 allows you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and meet demands for greater mobility. Microsoft Exchange Server, the cornerstone of Microsoft's Unified Communications solution, is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, and safeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities that help you manage risk..

Key benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2010 include>>>

TECHNOLOGY EVENTS, NEWS & CASE STUDIES

Nortec announces that it has renewed its Gold Partnership with Microsoft for 2011.
Nortec is awarded the following Microsoft competencies:
Server Platform
Systems Management
Virtualization
Midmarket Solution Provider

Nortec welcomes David Sapery, Senior Systems Consultant and Falgun Savalia, Network Administrator to its team of system integrators and infrastructure leaders.

Check Out Our Case Studies
Maybe you're considering a server upgrade, or an Exchange migration. Or maybe you're looking to virtualize in 2010. Chances are, an organization just like yours has done the same thing - and Nortec has helped them along the way. Learn how the process went for your peers in one our many case studies:

Messaging Solutions
Unified Communications
Virtualization Solutions
Infrastructure Management
Hosted & Managed Services (Nortec 24/7)
Network Infrastructure


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Here you'll find helpful links to whitepapers, datasheets, user guides and more.

1. Where Network and Systems Management is Headed Next by Beth Schultz

2. Microsoft Systems Center Manager Data Sheet: Optimizing Data Centers with System Center Solutions

3. Managing the Dynamic Desktop with System Center Solutions Data Sheet

4. Data Center Management and Virtualization White Paper

5. Exchange Server 2010 Cost Savings Calculator: Quickly calculate the potential cost savings you can achieve when you upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

6. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 10 Things You Need to Know

7. By Darryl K. Taft, eWeek, November 10, 2010 VMware View Blog

8. VDI Review: Pano Express

9. Learn More about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure



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