Title: Grow strong branches with TradeWeb and the Microsoft Branch Office Solution.
1Grow strong branches with TradeWeb and the
Microsoft Branch Office Solution.
www.TradeWeb.net
2The Branch Office Predicament
Expensive
Are We Going to Stop Buying Bandwidth? Is a
Remote IT Staff Worth the Cost? Who Can I Trust
for Branch Office Support?
The WAN Is Out, and No One Is Working. Did the
Updates and Patches Go Out? Distributed IT Staff
Centralization or Decentralization? No
Standardization Legacy Application Rehosting
3We Help You Grow Strong Branches
Best Practices and Optimization Take Control of
Bandwidth Coherent Branch Server
Management Simplified IT Management
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Policy Guidance Capacity Planning Branch Site
Autonomy Highly Secure Connections
Implementation Expertise Enhanced User
Experience Branch Site Backup Information Worker
Productivity .
4Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostYour
situation
- How much of your IT budget do you expend on
branch office support? - Where are your biggest bottlenecks?
- How do your capabilities align with your growth
projections?
5Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostHow we
can help
- Analyze your technical and business objectives.
- Assess your WAN usage.
- Optimize your storage and communication
capabilities. - Design and deploy the Microsoft Branch Office
Solution.
6Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostOur
solution expertise
- Efficient WAN usage
- Simplified branch server management
- Simplified IT management
- Robust file replication
7Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostMore
efficient WAN usage
- Remote Differential Compression (RDC)
- Only file changes are replicated from the branch
back to the data center - Advanced data compression
- Reductions in replication traffic can reach 85 to
90 percent - Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R)
- Scheduling and bandwidth throttling
- Automatic recovery
- Multiple replication topologies
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
(ISA) Server - Improves WAN efficiencies
- Large data transfers without degradation
- Packet prioritization
8Operational Efficiency and Reduced
CostSimplified branch server management
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0
- Extends centralized control into branch offices
- Helps reduces IT personnel and costs
- Automated Deployment Services (ADS)
- Scalable deployment
- Remote deployment
- Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
- Centralized monitoring
- Automated problem resolution
- Reporting and trend analysis
- Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
- Centralized patch and update distribution
9Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostIT
management simplified
- Microsoft Virtual Server (VS) 2005
- Multiple operating systems
- Legacy application hosting
- Four virtual instances of Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
(DPM) 2006 - Self-healing synchronization
- Disk-based backup
- End user recovery
10Operational Efficiency and Reduced Costs
Activity
Time Savings
File Repair and Restoration
34
Storage Management
34
Disaster Planning and Recovery
28
Capacity Planning
25
Server Setup and Configuration
18
User Support / Help Desk
16
File Replication
14
From Addressing Operational Efficiencies in
Branch Offices, IDC, May 2006.
11Operational Efficiency and Reduced Costs How we
have helped others
- Reduced wide area network (WAN) traffic by up to
50 percent - Improved file replication speeds by up to 400
times
12Security and Reliability Your situation
- What are your most pressing security concerns?
- Who determines branch security policy?
- How are you addressing business continuity?
- How often do your branches face outages?
13Security and Reliability How we can help
- Align security priorities.
- Implement best practices.
- Assess performance requirements.
- Analyze capacity requirements.
14Security and Reliability Our solution expertise
- Branch site user and data autonomy
- More secure connections
- Greater security through patching
15Security and ReliabilityBranch site user and
data autonomy
- Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services
- Loss of connectivity between branch and central
locations no longer impacts the ability of branch
users to authenticate and access services - Improved system performance and robustness over
unreliable WANs - Active Directory Domain Services Partitions
- Prioritize replication
- Control scope
- Control placement
- Group Policy and Active Directory Domain Services
16Security and ReliabilityMore secure connections
through ISA Server
- Filtering
- Packet filtering
- Stateful filtering
- Application layer filtering
- IPSec and VPN
- Remote VPN
- Enhanced firewall protection
17Security and Reliability Greater security
through patching
- Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003
- Accurate monitoring
- Patch scheduling
- Patch prioritizing
SMS makes sending a package automatic. We choose
the computer from the inventory, right-click to
distribute the software, go through the wizard,
and within two or three minutes, SMS has
distributed the software, and the user can start
working. The IT staff doesnt have to go on-site,
and theres no interruption of service to the end
user. Jed Dunn, Communications Engineer at
Aquila
18Security and Reliability How we have
helped others
- Provided a holistic approach that integrates
policy with procedures - Developed business continuity planning and
support - Streamlined system management operations
19Accelerate Information Your situation
- Are your branch workers less productive due to
communication problems? - What are your performance priorities?
- What challenges do you face in coordinating
information flow? - Do your people have timely information to make
better decisions and support your customers?
20Accelerate InformationHow we can help
- Deliver information to the right people at the
right time, regardless of their location. - Increase communication efficiency and file
management. - Enhance the end users experience and efficiency
at your branch offices.
21Accelerate Information Our solution expertise
- Uninterrupted branch office service
- High-performance WAN connectivity
22Accelerate InformationUninterrupted branch
office service
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Single server
- Service
- Virtualized
- Dedicated
- Local replicas of remote data
- Failover with failback capabilities
- Once the local branch server is up, users are
automatically connected back to their branch
server. - Microsoft Virtual Server resumes applications in
downtime.
23Accelerate InformationHigh-performance WAN
connectivity
- Bandwidth throttling and replication scheduling
- Each user saved 7.6 hours a year on replication.
- Each user saved 2.3 hours a year on restoring
files. - Each user saved 5.6 hours a year on
installation. - Configurable Internet access rules and spam
filtering - One companys example
- 30 messages a day, 5 seconds to read and delete
- 7,500 employees working at an average of 14.42
per hour - Approximately 90,000 per month or 1,080,000 per
year
From Addressing Operational Efficiencies in
Branch Offices, IDC, May 2006.
24Accelerate InformationHow we have helped others
- More effective utilization of server capacity and
network bandwidth - Greater efficiency in systems administration and
management - Faster and more reliable data recovery in the
event of a disaster - Higher degree of standardization and automation
25Summary
Best Practices and Optimization Take Control of
Bandwidth Coherent Branch Server
Management Simplified IT Management
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Policy Guidance Capacity Planning Branch Site
Autonomy Highly Secure Connections
Implementation Expertise Enhanced User
Experience Branch Site Backup Information Worker
Productivity .
26Appendix
27For More Product Information
- Branch Office
- www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/branchoffic
e/default.mspx - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
- http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default
.mspx - Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
Server - http//www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
- Microsoft Operations Manager
- http//www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx
- Microsoft Systems Management Server
- http//www.microsoft.com/smserver/default.mspx
- Microsoft Virtual Server
- http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtu
alserver/default.mspx - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
- http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/d
efault.mspx
28Technology Overview
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Remote Differential Compression (RDC) Distributed
File System (DFS) ISA Server Microsoft Operations
Manager
ISA Server Active Directory Domain Services
Group Policy DPS
Branch Office Server Design Prescriptive
Guidance Proactive Management Measures
29In-Depth Remote Differential Compression
Original file
Updated file
Original file
30In-Depth Distributed File System
Physical Servers
\\Software1\Apps San Francisco
DFS Namespace
\\Software\Public\Applications
\\Software2\Apps San Francisco
DFS Replication
\\Software3\Apps Miami
User in Dallas
User in San Francisco
\\Software4\Apps Dallas
31In-Depth HTTP Caching
Branch Office Clients
ISA Server
Internet