Secure in 15 -- Security practices you can use each day. Start with this "15 Minutes Month-at-a-Glance" calendar today. Each month, we'll send you additional tools and tricks to stay protected around the clock. 

Where can you find one complete and highly secure suite of productivity tools that all work together? With cloud services, you can deliver fully hosted online productivity tools for real-time communication and collaboration that are all designed to work together. The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite is one stop shopping in the cloud. 

The Hyper-V Technology Introduction with Advanced Management for Windows Server 2008 is an approximate 10 day service and consists of either a single-node implementation or dual-node highly available (HA) host-based cluster configuration and up to two servers for the System Center elements. Read this paper to learn more. 

This webcast, with an introduction from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, examines the importance of CRM software has on a company’s bottom line. 

This study illustrates the financial impact of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 for a retail and distribution organization of 1,500 employees and $450 million in annual revenue. 

So you want to supercharge your team's productivity? The key is to get them together. The tools you need are ready right now in the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Watch this informative video to learn about the myriad of features and benefits that this Microsoft solution has to offer. 

The following six secrets to 24x7, disaster-tolerant Exchange will show you how to implement an Exchange environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster. 

Enterprises have embraced various forms of virtualization during the past few decades including server, storage and desktop virtualization. In this paper, we will describe several desktop virtualization architectures, and the success criteria required for each. 

Protecting the virtual data center doesn't need to be any more difficult than protecting a physical network. The key is to remain vigilant. In this chapter, you'll learn how to mitigate potential security risks to your resource pool and virtual machines without over-allocating administration. 

This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering and the process for gathering requirements. 

No recent IMS enhancement has more potential to improve internal processing than does the Common Services Layer (CSL). The CSL provides many benefits. This document describes the basics of CSL usage and how to get started with the CSL. 

This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users. 

In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.