Genuine Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Essential Server Solutions deliver multiple business-class capabilities to help protect your important data from loss or viruses and improve the stability and reliability of your network. Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services or partner-hosted services deliver business-class server functionality and security without the need and expense of a big IT department.

• Reduce IT risks (antivirus and firewall). Protect your business from online threats that can bring down your computers or your network. Improve IT protection by automatically managing the firewall software on your server and client computers, and help prevent costly downtime with powerful antivirus software and spyware blockers that scan and block malicious software in real time.


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• Keep your data backed up (scheduled software backup and centralised storage). Feel confident that your business information is highly secure. Store your data centrally on the company network, and schedule backups to occur automatically to help ensure that your critical business documents and sensitive data are always available.


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• Protect your data (data encryption and protection). Ensure that your sensitive customer or financial data never falls into the wrong hands by restricting access and encrypting documents with Windows BitLocker File Encryption. Control access levels on files and documents for internal and external collaboration so your team can share files and resources in a highly secure environment.


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• Prevent data loss (data recovery). Take a “picture” of your computer’s hard disk and easily retrieve, recover, and restore data on your computers and servers in the event of a disaster. Protect your vital business information from loss by backing up the data on your network and recovering accidentally deleted files.


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• Simplify IT management (online software and hosted services). Focus on managing your business and serving customers, not your IT department. Subscribe to the secure and reliable communications and collaboration infrastructure solution that’s delivered as a service via the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Microsoft or partner-hosted services dramatically reduce IT complexity by delivering full-featured server functionality, professional IT management, scheduled data backups, best-in-class data centres, and 24/7 IT support.


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• Reduce hardware costs (consolidation and virtualization). Lower the cost of IT and make the most of your existing technology with the virtualisation capabilities and management tools in Windows Server 2008. Consolidate servers using Hyper-V to make it easier to monitor and manage your entire IT infrastructure from end to end and reduce overall downtime.


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