Partezis wanted to expand its business opportunities and boost availability for its customers’ critical back-office applications. The company implemented a hosted solution based on Microsoft database software. Partezis is now better positioned to increase its business and can meet customer availability needs. It has also lowered maintenance and licensing fees, and its IT employees are more efficient.

To achieve continued growth, Belgium-based Belgacom Group, a provider of integrated communications and media services, needed to ensure improved service availability for both its employees and customers. In particular, the company needed to expand monitoring capabilities for systems running the Windows operating system, as well as its heterogeneous virtual infrastructure. After evaluating several options, Belgacom deployed Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. The company also deployed the Veeam nworks Management Pack for VMware to centralize monitoring of virtual machines based on both Windows Server Hyper-V technology and VMware vSphere. Now, Belgacom gains from enhanced service monitoring of its critical infrastructure components, including Microsoft Exchange Server. And the company’s IT team is better equipped to meet requests to monitor emerging business applications.

Belgium-based Combell provides hosted Web and application services for a growing number of European customers. The company deployed Windows Server® 2008 to help improve efficiency, but it was interested in additional virtualization and management enhancements. To meet its needs, Combell chose to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2. As a result, the company has reduced its server management time by 20 percent and anticipates major cost savings in its data centers. Additionally, Combell can offer more flexible solutions to its customers.