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MaC unveils Defend IT Services
Enterprise-class management, backup, and disaster recovery for all!


Total Server Care
Agent software supported by 24/7 monitoring and management.  Features include:
 
•   Monitoring
       Critical server application monitoring
       Hardware component monitoring
       Server resource utilization
       Network device monitoring
•   Patch Management
       Critical System Patch testing, approval, and installation
•   Trouble ticket         
       Error and warnings captured every 15 minutes
       Services and processes captured every 2 minutes
       Device availability every 1 minute
       Performance monitoring every 10 minutes
       Potential critical problems classified and tickets generated
•   Reporting 
       Continuous ticketing and custom notifications
       Monthly executive reporting (with roll up of desktop data)
•   Anti Virus – system and email services
•   Anti Spyware protection
 

Total Server Care

http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/servermonitoring.jpg24x7 Monitoring
Categorization of Issues
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/alert.jpgCustom Alerting
Basic Network Device Monitoring
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Script Deployment

http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/logmein.jpgInstant Remote Assistance
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/asset.jpgAsset and Performance Reporting
On-demand Remote Assistance for unmanaged systems
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/avg.jpgAnti-virus for operating systems and Mail Servers
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/patch.jpgMicrosoft Security Patch Whitelist  and Deployment Service

 
Total Desktop Care
Agent software supported by 24/7 monitoring and management.  Features include:
 
•   Advanced remote assistance to allow computer consultants access at the permission of the user
•   Patch management similar to server care
•   Performance monitoring on memory, disk space and health, processor, etc
•   Asset and inventory of hardware and software.  System changes are automatically documented to help with troubleshooting
•   Miscellaneous system housecleaning such as temporary file removal
•   Anti Virus and Anti Spyware
 

Total Desktop Care

http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/servermonitoring.jpg24x7 Monitoring
Categorization of Issues
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/alert.jpgCustom Alerting
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/script.jpg
Script Deployment

http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/logmein.jpgInstant Remote Assistance
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/asset.jpgAsset and Performance Reporting
Anti-Spyware Bundled and Scans Daily
http://www.zenithinfotech.com/images/avg.jpgAnti-Virus Support for Major Vendors and AVG Anti-Virus Bundled for Free

 
Business and Disaster Recovery Care
On-site appliance backup; off-site, hosted disaster recovery replication; and server virtualization to enable server crash recovery within minutes.  Features include:
 
•   Reduce downtime with specialized backup and recovery appliance
•   Backups are holistic - system and data
•   Onsite and offsite backups 
•   Accelerated disaster recovery process
•   Supports single server and full site loss recovery
•   Reduce captive dependency on manufacturer warranty
 
Why should you be concerned with preventative care?
 
•   Timely insight into systems environments and the ability to proactively resolve issues is critical to uninterrupted business.
 
•   The technology universe is a dynamically changing environment.  Security breaches are becoming more and more common with technology becoming ever more complicated.  

•   Dozens of updates come out every month for Microsoft Windows products alone.  Some patches aren’t always perfect when they are released as they may have flaws or create other incompatibilities that do more harm than good.  Patch management whitelisting service works to ensure only tested and proven fixes make it to your machines.

•    Servers can generate hundreds event logs daily.  This is a daunting task to tackle on a regular basis for even a single server.  Our Network Operations Center (NOC) receives critical events and classifies and prioritizes alerts. The goal is to catch problems before they become evident to and impact end users.

•     Remote Assistance is becoming ever more critical.  Given dispersed geographical locations, traffic patterns, and rising fuel costs, remote assistance tools are not just a luxury anymore.  Help Desk staff and consultants may be able to address a problem in minutes rather than hours if able to assist someone from another location.
 
More info
 
The upshot of all this is three-fold:  updating for workstations/laptops is automatic and monitored (Defend IT Workstation) to ensure maximum protection, the management and monitoring of the servers (Defend IT Server) greatly improves chances of catching failing equipment BEFORE it fails completely - thereby reducing 'system-down' emergencies, and the backup/disaster recovery portion (Defend IT Data) allows a return to operations within a couple of hours versus a couple of days upon server failure.  Even with the destruction of your entire office, servers, and on-site backup device, a replacement can be sent overnight from the remote site to have you up-and-running at an alternate location within a day or two!
 
See the following demos to help visualize and understand the products and services that MaC is offering (MaC is named 'the Partner' or 'MSP' in the demos.).  See the NAS Flash Demo (http://www.zenithinfotech.com/060408_NAS_r5.swf) for an overview of why NAS, and the BDR Demo (http://www.zenithinfotech.com/Videos/WMV%20BDR%20demo%2072008.wmv) for a demo of how backups and recovery will work.
 
Cheers and Jeers Take
 
The true value of the Defend IT Services is most easily seen by comparing the cost of Defend IT Services against the price of your business being down (sunk costs, lost revenues, and intangibles) for even a day or two.  Once these calculations are made, the only question is:  How can you afford to not have it?



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