Many of today’s Media and Entertainment firms are small businesses, who despite their size, often operate 24/7 across multiple time zones. These firms require an operational IT infrastructure that delivers consistent, reliable performance around the clock. They need access to their applications and data day and night so that their employees can efficiently mange their respective acquisition, development, production and/or post production processes and coordinate their activities on multiple projects internally and from remote locations.

To meet this IT challenge more and more Media and Entertainment firms are choosing a Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server (SBS) to automate paper processes and create a single shared vision of their business, accounting, and scheduling data that is accessible any time, by any authorized employee, from practically anywhere. But, if their SBS fails, the disruption and the revenue impact can be devastating because restoration of their OS, Applications and Data can take hours to days, and all too often valuable data will be lost even if/when their system is eventually restored. This can result in costly delays and affect hundreds of people who are working on projects that are in active development, production, post production or distribution.