On 24th September 2009, Gardner Systems and Microsoft will be presenting Essential Business Server 2008. This event is free to attend and runs from 9am – 1pm (including lunch).

This is the perfect opportunity for you to come and speak with Microsoft and Gardner Systems about how your IT infrastructure can save you money. Save money by providing an easy-to-manage technical solution which can address issues you are currently experiencing in your business.

EBS has been specifically designed by Microsoft for the mid-market to address the following issues:

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Gardner Systems are pleased to announce that we have been carefully selected by Microsoft to deliver Microsoft Essential Business Server to the mid-market within the UK. Microsoft are working with only 5 UK partners out of 36,000 on a special LightHouse programme to help deliver EBS in the UK.

 So what is EBS I hear you ask…

EBS in Microsoft’s own words is:

“Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is an enterprise-class server solution designed and priced for midsize businesses. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 provides a unified Administration Console to manage an integrated IT infrastructure with the latest versions of management, messaging, and security server technologies.  By helping to improve IT manageability and reliability, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 turns a midsize IT infrastructure into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth”

We at Gardner Systems met with Iain Frew, Principal Program Manager for EBS last week to discuss what it can bring to the typical mid-market business. Throughout the slides we were shown it was clear to that Microsoft has realy studied what a potential customer could want when producing EBS. It includes key technologies such as Exchange 2007, forefront security, SQL server 2008, hyper-V, system centre essentials and many more.

Gardners are presenting an event around this topic here in Liverpool on the 24th September 2009. This event is free for anyone to attend and will consist of us demonstrating EBS with Microsoft key speaker and Principal Program Manager, Iain Frew. A perfect opportunity for you to come and meet with Microsoft.

Visiting the Essential Business Server website this product is usually shown on multiple (3/4) servers with one per function-Management Server, Messaging Server, Security Server. This can, according to this document be virtualised onto less hardware to provide “infrastructure in a box”.