Businesses such as yours need their data to be highly secure and their IT systems reliable.  We can help you increase the security features and reliability of your systems with well-supported Microsoft products.  Windows Server® 2008 and other solutions offer robust security features for servers and clients, helping you simplify security management while working to protect your network from intruders. 

Our solutions are designed to automate backups and help optimize performance to make managing desktops easier, allowing you to stay productive and worry less about downtime or losing your critical business information. Plus, they can help stop viruses and malware from infecting desktops and impacting worker productivity. 

Help keep your IT up and running and protect your data with integrated solutions and a reliable, proven infrastructure from Digital Reach, Inc.

Businesses such as yours need their data to be highly secure and their IT systems reliable. Our solutions are designed to automate backups and help fight viruses and spam to make managing desktops easier, allowing you to stay productive and worry less about downtime or losing your critical business information.

A custom tailored solution from Digital Reach can help your company:

• Keep your IT up and running. Windows Server® 2008 helps you reduce downtime, increase the performance and reliability of your systems, and protect your network from threats and intruders.

• Help protect your data. Our solutions help you automate maintenance and backup to protect critical business data. Also, they can help stop viruses and malware from infecting desktops and impacting worker productivity.

Digital Reach can help you make the most of what you already have. We offer a brief assessment over the phone to understand where your IT department is now, and help outline steps you can take to help simplify security management and ensure your protection is always up to date. Digital Reach provides the kind of delivery assurance that you expect from a Microsoft partner.
We will call within the next few days to discuss your infrastructure. Together, we can help you stay productive, so you can focus on your business.

The demands of an always-on work environment that spans geographies and time zones is ever-increasing the pressures on IT departments to provide rich, connected capabilities across the infrastructure, while protecting both the environment and its confidential data from intrusion and disruption. The infrastructure optimization process helps organizations transform their IT infrastructures into strategic assets, reducing system complexity and providing greater operational flexibility. As a result, IT managers are able to:

Control costs:
Reduce hardware, utility, and space expenses for data-center operations
Reduce application compatibility testing for major deployments
Reduce training expenses and free up costly IT personnel forhigher-value use
Increase system uniformity, to avoid conflicts and accelerateproblem resolution
Prevent security breaches and subsequent clean-up efforts
Reduce remote site visits in branch operations

Improve service levels:
Reduce service interruptions from security breaches
Maintain a robust disaster recovery process, to avoid service interruptions and speed recovery
Avoid desktop configuration conflicts and accelerate help-desk resolution
Quarantine out-of-compliance remote systems and legacy line-of-business (LOB) applications

Drive agility:
Increase flexibility and ability to adapt to changing business conditions
Rapidly provision new capabilities
Dynamically assign resources to demanding workloads in near real time
Employ zero-touch self-provisioning and automatic configuration
Streamline and accelerate software deployment

The vision of infrastructure optimization is to help customers realize the value of their investments in IT infrastructure, to make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset that supports agility within their organizations, and ultimately to help customers create an infrastructure for a people-ready business.

For more information about how your business can benefit from the infrastructure optimization process, contact Digital Reach!

Coming in the second half of 2008, Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) 2008 represents the next-generation integrated server solution for small businesses (up to 75 users or network devices). Part of the Windows Essential Server Solutions family, Windows SBS 2008 offers a targeted combination of technologies and management capabilities for your small-business. Streamlined installation and management functions can improve your operational efficiency, while helping you grow your business capacity at a cost-effective price and a manageable pace.

Slated for general availability later this year, Windows Essential Server Solutions are much easier for small and midsize companies to implement and manage than separate products. In response to customer and partner feedback, Windows Essential Server Solutions provide flexible pricing and licensing that offer substantial cost savings over purchasing individual products like those included in the solutions. Examples of licensing improvements over the current Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 product include these:

• Customers will be able to purchase single client access licenses (CALs), so they will pay only for the exact number of employees using the product.
 
• Customers can cost-effectively purchase a mix of Standard or Premium CALs, as appropriate to the technologies that individual employees are using.
 
• CALs now apply to other copies of Windows Server, SQL Server or Exchange Server on the network, eliminating the need to purchase additional CALs.

Also, Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition includes additional Windows Server 2008 Standard technologies with SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for Small Business, making it an ideal platform for critical business applications.

Designed for small businesses, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an affordable, integrated server solution that helps you protect your business data, increase productivity and present a more professional image to customers – giving you the tools you need to help grow your business capacity. More Small Business IT Solutions

As the scope of security threats on the Internet have increased, security professionals at Google have an increased responsibility to adjusting to this new state of security on the Internet.  Google is constantly working to gain the upper-hand to threats online and to understand how these threats affect their customers and the Internet community. Google has helped to define the way people do business online.  But in this ever-changing environment that does not mean that Google is immune to the complexities that an online world can bring.

One way Google is doing this is by monitoring how its users are using Google Apps.  Google Apps are Google’s online applications and include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. The applications host all of the users’ data online and enable users to share documents with virtually anyone, inside or outside their organizations. But because the applications exist online, they are subject to any number of known and unknown application-level attacks and Web threats, making security a thornier problem than usual.

Google doesn’t want to be the company that tells people what to do and what not to do.  Their business is built on quality of results.  Google encourages IT security professionals to look at the ways in which they secure their own companies and see how they can introduce a more open experience while still emphasizing security.  Read more about this at: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1315867,00.html

Understanding where your business is in the security lifecycle allows Digital Reach to prepare a solution to ensure your network is secure. Early intervention allows you to be proactive in addressing network computer systems security.  Learn more.

Disaster planning has traditionally involved protecting the data center and its assets, attending to the data, the software, and the necessary hardware. In times of disaster however, even when disaster plans function flawlessly, the prospects for business continuity are often grim. Why? Because when it comes to business, the people involved are still the most important element. Now, new technologies and services are available to en­sure that after a disaster the people involved in the day-to-day planning and running of a business have the same level of access to data, services, and all other necessary corporate resources as they had before one. In addition, even during the most exacting times companies will be able to reach out to their employees and provide them with needed services to get them through the hard times.

Is your network protected?  Digital Reach can review your current disaster plan or implement a new one.  Contact Digital Reach, Inc. to learn more.

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Search doesn’t have to be complicated. You can deliver search solutions to your organization quickly and easily with Microsoft Search Server 2008. Below is a snap-shot view of Microsoft Search Server 2008:

Quickly find the information you need, using a familiar Search Center interface.

Pinpoint the most relevant information you need with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.

Retrieve concise and clear search results, using duplicate collapsing, which allows you to quickly review a wide variety of relevant information.

Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your search results using e-mail and RSS alerts.

Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize both your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results.

Index common information sources using out-of-the-box indexing connectors for file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes databases.

Use federated search connectors to quickly and easily connect to applications and services, using the Open Search standard.

Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits, and using advanced indexing features like continuous propagation.

Take advantage of a strong Partner ecosystem to implement and further extend your search solution.

Review common administrative tasks, statuses, and settings in a single view, using a unified administrative dashboard.

Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other configurable relevancy settings through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.

Set crawl rules and schedules that govern how and when your information is indexed.

Maintain high availability and load balancing using a variety of topologies. Configure multiple Web, query, and clustered database servers.

Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.

Help ensure that only the right people can find information, using query and index-time security trimming.

If you want to know more about Digital Reach’s Managed Services offerings or what Digital Reach can do for your business, click here to schedule a consultation or call us at 214.623.5200.

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced server operating system designed to power future networks, applications, and web services.  Windows Server 2008 delivers valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the operating system.  The new web tools, virtualization technologies, and security enhancements provided by Server 2008 help you save time, reduce costs, and provide stability.

Windows Server 2008 provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while being easy to deploy and manage. Hallmark Windows Server reliability and enhanced high availability features help ensure your critical applications and data are available when you need them.

Initial Configuration Tasks moves interactive elements of setup to after installation, eliminating the need for the administrator to interact with the installation of the operating system.

Server Manager, the expanded Microsoft Management Console (MMC), provides a one-stop interface for server configuration and monitoring with wizards to streamline common server management tasks.

Windows PowerShell, a new optional command-line shell and scripting language, enables administrators to automate routine system administration tasks across multiple servers.

Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor provides powerful diagnostic tools to give you ongoing visibility into your server environment, both physical and virtual, to pinpoint and resolve issues quickly.

Optimized server administration and data replication for increased control over servers located in remote locations, such as a branch office.

Componentized Server Core installation option allows minimal installations where only the server roles and features you need are installed, reducing maintenance needs and decreasing the available attack surface of the server.

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) provides a simplified, highly secure means of rapidly deploying Windows operating systems to computers by using network-based installation.

Failover clustering wizards make it easy for even IT generalists to implement high-availability solutions, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is now fully integrated, and geographically dispersed cluster nodes no longer need to be on the same IP subnet or configured with complicated Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs).

Network Load Balancing (NLB) now supports IPv6 and includes multiple dedicated IP address support which allows multiple applications to be hosted on the same NLB cluster.

Windows Server Backup incorporates faster backup technology and simplifies data or operating system restoration.

Businesses such as yours need their data to be highly secure and their IT systems reliable.  Digital Reach, Inc. can help you increase the security features and reliability of your systems with well-supported Microsoft products.  Windows Server® 2008 and other solutions offer robust security features for servers and clients, helping you simplify security management while working to protect your network from intruders. 

Our solutions are designed to automate backups and help optimize performance to make managing desktops easier, allowing you to stay productive and worry less about downtime or losing your critical business information. Plus, they can help stop viruses and malware from infecting desktops and impacting worker productivity. 

Microsoft’s marketshare increases in the collaboration and content management system markert.

More than 300 companies began the migration to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint Server most of whom were former users of IBM’s Lotus Notes / Domino communication and collaboration software.

Microsoft offers a free suite of tools designed to help companies migrate from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange/Sharepoint.  The free migration tool is aimed at companies with hundreds of thousands of users.

About 101 million corporate mailboxes run Notes today.  But 304 million e-mail boxes will run Outlook and Exchange by 2011. 

The migration software, bundled as Microsoft Transporter Suite, focuses on moving Lotus Domino 6 and 7 users to a system based around Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.  The software divides the migration into batches of users or applications and this division is seen as a real improvement among IT experts.

According to a white paper by Excipio Consulting LLC, the cost of migrating a 30,000 employee business would be $6.6 million for all software, developers and extra support staffers.  But, by employing the Microsoft migration software, a company could expect to save up to $1.5 million per year by using Microsoft.

Digital Reach Inc., is positioned to help your company migrate to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint.  For more information about IT system migration, click here.

Digital Reach, Inc., a Dallas, Texas based firm, specializes in delivering cutting-edge IT solutions that evolve with your business. We focus on individually designed solutions that meet your specific requirements and retain several key certifications. Our entire company works as one large team of experienced, forward-thinking experts who are passionate about what they do. It is this passion that allows us to offer you the latest IT solutions in the ever-changing technology environment.

At Digital Reach, our knowledgeable team specializes in helping you:

• Stay productive wherever you are with security-enhanced access to information and resources from virtually any PC with Internet access.
• Store your key data in a single, secure location, so your people can always find and share the information they need.
• Help safeguard your information - and your business - with automatic data backup and recovery.
• Use your Windows Mobile® devices to access contacts, calendars, and more - from just about anywhere, at any time.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are experts at Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2003 R2 deployments. By delivering advanced functionality designed specifically for small businesses, this complete, affordable network solution can help you make the most of your IT investment.

Plus, with a knowledgeable partner to help implement your server solution, you can be confident that your systems will be running smoothly, so you can focus on what really matters: growing your business.

Contact us today for a technology assessment.

Kris Lamberth of Digital Reach, Inc. Earns CISSP Certification

Dallas / Ft. Worth IT Services firm Digital Reach, Inc., today announced that Kris Lamberth has earned the prestigious Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. This certification is issued by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or ((ISC)². (ISC)² is a non-profit organization that educates and certifies information security professionals worldwide. Click here to view the full press release.