Windows Small Business Server by Microsoft

BANGALORE, INDIA: Windows Small Business Server 2011 (SBS 2011) comes in two editions: Standard and Essentials. In addition, the Small Business Server Premium Add-on is available for SQL based line of business (LOB) support, or as an additional member server.

Small Business Server 2011 Standard

Your all-in-one network solution, designed and priced for small businesses with up to 75 users. SBS 2011 Standard delivers enterprise-class server technology in an affordable, all-in-one solution. SBS 2011 Standard helps protect your business information from loss by performing automatic daily backups. Additionally, it allows users to be more productive with features such as e-mail, Internet connectivity, internal websites, remote access, and file and printer sharing.

Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

Get ready for the future and take advantage of the cloud. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, SBS 2011 Essentials provides a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to help protect data, organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, support the applications needed to run a business, and quickly connect to online services for e-mail, collaboration and CRM.

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Key Features

•     Simplify Small Business IT

•     Simplified Purchase and Setup. Identify, purchase, install, and manage multiple components and...
  
      Increase Business Productivity

•     Remote Web Access. Remote Web Access provides a single, simple, consolidated...
  
      Help Protect Business Data

•     Simplified Backup for Business Data. Businesses can easily backup server and...
  
      Greater Business Insight

•     Information Organization. Streamline document access and control information sharing...
  
      Helpful Benefits that Decrease Setup Time

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Today’s small business owners face daily challenges in running their businesses, and one of the more difficult challenges is managing an IT infrastructure; however, the primary focus for most business owners is on their core business competencies, not on becoming technology experts. Because investments in technology directly impact the bottom line, there is a constant need to achieve real business benefits and mitigate costs against a backdrop of time pressures and limited technical skills. To add to this pressure, many small businesses are now looking toward cloud services, and what they may offer. However, this can add even more complexity and apprehension in adopting new technology.

The SBS product has always been about providing a core set of pre-configured functionality, straight out of the box. By pre-installing and configuring core windows features and application integration, it decreases the time for setup, and enables the business to start seeing benefit straight away.

Even though it may seem SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials are quite different products, they are both built using the same set of SBS principles we have had for over 10 years.

The SBS family provides an:

    Operating System Layer, in this case Windows Server 2008 R2 including most of the functionality this can provide

    Effortless File and print sharing

    Automated Backup capabilities

    Identity Protection through Active Directory integration

    Remote access for anywhere anytime access to files and applications.

    And a Simplified Management wrapper using a pre-configured console for day to day management.

Source: www.microsoft.com