Microsoft

MDS is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the Platform division. Our core competencies are focused on infrastructure products such as Windows XP/Vista, Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and Windows Small Business Server. We also have strategic partners in the Microsoft Dynamics division who help us to provide advanced business applications such as CRM and ERP as well as process integration to our customers.

 

Our close relationship with Microsoft, which we have developed over a number of years, keeps us in-tune with their strategy and allows us to plan for our customers more effectively. It also gives us access to exclusive resources that we can pass on to our customers such as free business critical telephone support and the ability to bring our customers in and develop a relationship of their own with Microsoft. These benefits our customers have available to them are what sets us aside from the competition.

 

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services are a new offering from Microsoft and MDS is one of the first partners to make it available to customers. The services are modular and provide the following:

• Hosted Filtering - E-Mail is scanned for viruses and spam before it reaches your organization by Microsoft's unique multi-vendor engine. Malicious messages are quarrantined to an online store for you to retrieve and view as necessary. By removing unwanted mail before it reaches your network, it it reduces the risk for your organization and makes more of your bandwidth available for business applications.
• Hosted Archive - An advanced message archiving system for e-mail and instant messages. The service is designed to help enterprises meet a variety of regulatory and legal demands placed on their electronic communication systems.
• Hosted Encryption - A convenient, easy-to-use e-mail encryption service that helps to safely deliver your confidential business communications. The service enables users to send and receive encrypted e-mail directly from their desktops as easily as regular e-mail. Using a simple process, users can encrypt and deliver any business communication without complex hardware and software to purchase, configure, and maintain.
• Hosted Continuity - A business continuity solution that helps protect and provide continous access to e-mail for a business and its employees. The service provides a security-enhanced and intuitive Web interface through which users can access their previous 30 days of e-mail and can compose and send new messages in real time during a primary mail system outage.
• Hosted Exchange E-mail - Now you can enjoy the benefits of business class e-mail in a pay-as-you-go model that enables you to scale up or down as needed, minimizing your financial risk. Microsoft Hosted Exchange can help you free up valuable capital, IT staff, and other costly resources for more effective, strategic use within your organization.