Take a quantum leap in reduced IT headaches and management, with virtualization.

Virtualization is the true business IT infrastructure failsafe and disaster recovery solution. VMware has made this possible for the small business set-up of 1 to 3 servers or an unlimited number of servers in large corporations.

Most corporations running numerous physical servers are not using the full capacity of each of them. By implementing VMware and consolidating the server operating systems on just a few physical servers, you lower power costs and create a virtual redundant environment.

VMware virtualization will allow you to instantly recover any operating system to any other physical server without the problems of additional hardward; it will even do it for you automatically!

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Have headaches administering your Linux or Unix infrastructure?

Find out how you can use the powerful technologies of Linux and Unix.

Our IT services extend to administrating numerous Linux servers from Red Hat, Cent OS, Ubuntu and others. Whether you need a simple file sharing server, a Linux database or mail server, custom scripting, ProTekIT Solutions will either administer your current setup or consult on the best solution and implement it.

Recently several Quickbooks Enterprise users encountered very slow database connections using the Windows Server Quickbooks Hosting solution. We migrated the Quickbooks hosting solution to Linux and it dramatically sped up; allowing Quickbooks users to do simple actions in seconds rather than minutes.

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Want a completely reliable and production enhancing e-mail solution?

We specialize in Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010. Exchange is Microsoft’s premium email solution, using Outlook and Microsoft’s Active Directory database to the utmost.

Here are just some of the advantages of using Exchange:

1 BETTER RELIABILITY: First you should know that for Outlook users, “Exchange” is Microsoft’s premium email solution and Outlook is programmed and designed specifically around using Exchange – Microsoft has invested more time into making Outlook as bug free as possible with Exchange. Thus, Exchange is the most reliable solution when it comes to using Outlook.

2 NO MORE DUPLICATE HANDLING OF OUTLOOK AND MAIL: All of your e-mails, contacts and calendars, tasks, etc. stay in sync between your computers and smartphones such as your iPhone, other smart phones, like Blackberry, Palm.

What this means is your Inbox will be the same on all devices, you reply to an e-mail and your Sent folder on both your device (phone or iPad) and Outlook will have the sent item. You delete an e-mail in one location and it will also be deleted on the other device too and sent to your Deleted items folder – no more needing to delete it twice or three times in some cases – cutting out wasted time and confusion!

Your Outlook subfolders will show up on all devices and Outlook and you’d only need to file the e-mail once, then it will be available in that same folder on all devices. This will cut out the added time and lost productivity of having to search for sent items in multiple locations if you answered your e-mail on one of your devices other than Outlook as the sent items on your smartphone get filed in your phone’s Sent folder, or having to go through loopholes to file stuff from your smart phone in your Outlook e-mail subfolders.

Additionally, for Contacts and Calendars – let’s say you are interviewing someone in person and decide to add their contact info to your iPad or smartphone and also add a calendar item to schedule another appointment on your smartphone. This is immediately sync’d to your Outlook and any other device. So when you go back to your computer and use Outlook, their contact details and the scheduled appointment is already in your Outlook. You then meet with the person and decide to remove the scheduled item from your Outlook Calendar, this is immediately removed from your phone and any other Outlook or device.

3 ACCESS FROM ANYWHERE: Outlook is directly accessible from the web browser. What if you’re not behind your computer with Outlook setup and you don’t want to use your small screen on your mobile device, you can log into “Outlook Web Access” on your web browser – THIS LOOKS JUST LIKE OUTLOOK and will have all of your Outlook data just like it is on your computer Outlook, including subfolders and files, contacts, etc. Normal webmail will only show what’s currently in your inbox and that’s it.

4 BACKED UP E-MAIL, CONTACTS AND CALENDARS: Because all of the information is essentially stored on the Exchange Servers in datacenters, all of your e-mails, contacts, calendars and tasks are backed up online at all times. If your laptop were to die, you could just install Outlook on another computer, setup the Exchange account and all of your inbox, subfolders, contacts, etc. would just download and look just like it did before – or as per above, you can just login to your webmail and see all of your information online.

5 CENTRALIZED HANDLING OF JUNIOR MAILBOXES: Be able to see other people’s inboxes (or full e-mail structure, i.e. saved folders, sent, deleted, etc.) underneath your email folder. Let’s say you have several people that need to see emails that go to support@abc123.com. Instead of individual copies of emails going to 5 different people’s inbox, clogging it up, they each can viewsupport@abc123.comand the appropriate or first available employee can handle and it will show as handled. Of course you can have this setup in tangent with copies of the e-mails still going to certain mailboxes if that’s what is wanted.

6 ENCRYPTED E-MAIL: All e-mails sent within the organization are fully encrypted and so are secure.

7 SHARE MAIL FOLDERS, CALENDARS OR CONTACT GROUPS: You can create new calendars, contact lists or e-mail folders and share them between anyone in the organization and create different permissions for different personnel if you don’t want them to delete items but just view them. This means multiple people can share emails, or look at one calendar and stay coordinated, share contact info, etc.

Call us now on (805) 618-1853 to discuss your Microsoft Exchange email service requirements.

From Windows Small Business Servers to Terminal Services and Microsoft SQL, Windows Servers lay the platform for a business to be organized and succeed.

Our certified technicians have many years of experience in the handling of Windows Servers; from Windows Server NT to 2008 as well as specialized products, such as Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL and Terminal Services.

Determining which Microsoft product will best suit your business needs for increased productivity and within budget constraints is our first course of action. Our implementations are backed by security solutions and robust backups so as to ensure the safety of company data and ease of recovery, should the need arise.

Once setup, we’ll maintain your servers on a monthly basis to ensure continued uptime and an error free operation.

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