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Netbay guides your timing
assessment and creates your road map for your
organization’s migration to Windows® 2000.
Before you can take advantage of some truly
powerful new innovations in Windows® 2000, you must analyze carefully
the time and capital required, and how to prevent the
disruptions to your business that may result. You must
have a road map and a proven methodology for
deployment to avoid significant downtime or
business-critical loss of connectivity. Netbay has
that expertise, and can help your enterprise make this
important step in a timely and cost-effective fashion
Benefits for your users include greater ease of
operation, tighter integration of Microsoft
applications, and more seamless navigation through the
network to the data and resources they need. For the
network operator, benefits include better long-term
return from your Information Technology (IT)
investment through lower management and service costs
and reduced bandwidth requirements. Equally
important are the significant advantages in IT
performance, a powerful enabler for responding to
E-business opportunities.
Many benefits of Windows 2000 are the result of
Microsoft Corporation's adoption of Active Directory,
a completely new method of organizing and controlling
the flow of information through your network. This
hierarchical “tree” structure has a significant
impact on virtually every element of your network.
Careful analysis and planning are essential to ensure
a smooth and timely migration.
Properly configured, Active Directory gives you
more centralized management of everything, from users
and groups to security services, even printers and
desktop hardware. It enables you to share information
more readily using familiar Internet protocols, and it
can reduce bandwidth costs and requirements.
Active Directory is much more
“business-centric.” Instead of arranging your
organization around network terms and technologies,
you organize the network in the categories you find
most useful, such as Marketing, Accounting, Human
Resources. It makes changing and administering the
trust relationships among users and resources simpler
and faster.
Once up and running, Windows 2000 pays off with
significant gains in network performance. But there is
a significant upfront investment in time and expertise
to understand the new technology and create a plan for
bringing it online smoothly.
The migration plan is very complex, and its
execution must be precisely timed to avoid costly
network downtime. Its major elements include:
Analysis, benchmarking, defining your needs for
connectivity and security ; Specification of new hardware and software
upgrades required ; Creating a new business-centric Active Directory
structure perfectly tuned to your business needs ;
Thorough testing of all critical applications
and configurations before the deployment, to catch
and resolve any conflicts before they result in
downtime ; Identification of opportunities to bring other
elements of your IT infrastructure up to present
standards in this rapidly evolving field, with
built-in pathways for streamlined expansions or
reconfigurations as your business changes and
expands
Netbay can manage your migration, adding real value
to your upgrade to this promising new technology.
We
bring detailed knowledge of Windows 2000 and
experience in its implementation, easing the
disruption of your core business and relieving the
strain on your IT organization, freeing them to
concentrate on the day-to-day operation of your
existing network. We can assist in training them in
the new features and protocols, so they can take full
advantage of its enhanced performance.
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