Microsoft Core Infrastructure

Foundational Services Our proven Foundational Lifecycle solutions help you achieve cost reductions by utilizing Gartner's best practices that span the client-computing lifecycle. This includes:

• Planning - to develop a strategy tailored to your business requirements.
• Deployment - to help ensure that large-scale, complex, or customized deployments of KTL and
  multi-vendor client environments are managed seamlessly and cost-effectively.
• Management - to address the day-to-day management and support challenges of maintaining and optimizing your client environment.
• Transition - to streamline your migration to new hardware and operating system platforms as your business and technology needs evolve.

Messaging Messaging tools are some of the most critical elements of the business infrastructure today, enabling information sharing and communication. As a result, they are one of the largest sources of information leakage. Therefore, protecting the messaging infrastructure must be a business priority. Catapult Systems is committed to helping you improve communication and speedy decision-making among employees without leaving networks exposed to malicious software or misuse. Our experience and expertise can help you make the most of your investment in and the use of: Microsoft Exchange Server – integrates e-mail, voice mail, faxes and calendaring into a single inbox. Microsoft Outlook – setting the standard in secure, easy-to-use e-mail applications. Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS) – helps you improve business efficiencies and increase productivity by sharing ideas and information immediately.

Management and Monitoring Our experience and expertise can help you make the most of your investment in and the use of:

• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) – reduces complexity of managing infrastructure environments.
• Microsoft Systems Center – helps you proactively plan, deploy, manage and optimize your IT environment.
• Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) – provides change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform.
• Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) – delivers continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers and enables rapid recovery.

Identity and Access Management The sensitivity of user access is such that an organisation must ensure that employees can get the information they need to make smart decisions for the organization, while keeping them out of sensitive, compliance-bound areas.

That's where strong identity and access management technologies from Microsoft comes in - and no one has more experience than Catapult Systems, in helping you make the most of investments in and the use of:

• Microsoft Active Directory – provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments.
• Microsoft Authorization Manager (AzMan) – enhances the administration of role-based security, making it more scalable, flexible and easier to implement.
• Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) – safeguards digital information from unauthorized use.
• Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) – stores and integrates identity information for organizations with multiple directories, to provide a unified view of all known identity information about users, applications and network resources.

Security Solutions An effective risk management strategy is essential to protect your enterprise data and IT assets from external and internal threats, as well as to limit sensitive data access to authorized users.

• Improve business and security controls
• Meet compliance requirements
• Avoid the consequences of security breaches - including downtime, lost business, clean-up costs, loss of sensitive information, impact on your business reputation
• Achieve a trusted infrastructure.

Reduce vulnerabilities through a comprehensive lifecycle approach
KTL takes a proactive approach to security, reducing vulnerabilities by managing IT-related risks in four areas: people, process, external environments and technology.In addition, our experience and expertise can help you make the most of your investment in and the use of:

In addition, our experience and expertise can help you make the most of your investment in and use of:

• Microsoft Forefront – a comprehensive line of business security products that integrates and simplifies management to help improve protection and control.
• Microsoft Authorization Manager (AzMan) – enhances the administration of role-based security, making it more scalable, flexible and easier to implement.
• Microsoft ISA Server – integrated edge security gateway helping protect IT environments from
  Internet-based threats while providing users with fast and secure remote access to applications and data.
• Microsoft Antigen – prevents loss of valuable enterprise and customer information, protecting messaging and collaboration servers from criminal hackers, virus attacks and SPAM.