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| Getronics Launches Future-Ready Workspace 2.0 Getronics is launching its Future-Ready Workspace 2.0 today. This latest blueprint and solution adds additional capabilities and brings together all the essential workspace capabilities and services required for large and diverse organizations — enabling people to securely communicate and collaborate anytime, anywhere for optimal business agility and performance. By supplying the Future-Ready Workspace in standardized modules, Getronics establishes an IT Services infrastructure that is flexible, affordable and able to scale based on business needs in the future. It also provides clients clear insight into their IT Services costs. The Future-Ready Workspace 2.0 includes the latest Microsoft technologies, such as Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange. Additionally, Getronics has incorporated virtualization technology, to make the workspace infrastructure more flexible, richer in functionality and more cost-efficient. The Future-Ready Workspace modular design is comprised of three basic layers: 1. The core layer consists of hardware and software applications that provide people with the basic functionalities necessary to do their jobs more effectively, using for example Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007. 2. The second layer consists of the workspace modules, a combination of technology and services focused on providing additional functionalities for specific user groups or business functions. Examples include comprehensive managed security services or mobile solutions. 3. The third layer comprises the customized add-ons that provide additional functionalities for specific user groups or business functions such as advanced collaboration and advanced security, and will provide integration with business applications. Future-Ready Workspace clients gain the assurance that they are better prepared to implement upgrades of new technology, based on their business needs. On an ongoing basis, Getronics consistently evaluates and tests all evolving new technologies together with their alliance partners and through selected client pilot projects. This is an integral part of the Future-Ready Workspace services. In short, Getronics takes responsibility for the IT Services workspace and its evolution so clients can focus on their core business. Large organizations rely on high-performance workplaces to provide employees the tools to work together, share information and act decisively to add value to the business. Getronics has developed the Information Worker Profiler, also being launched, to build solutions and a roadmap to optimize use of information systems, geared to the needs of employees. The data provided by this assessment can be used by Getronics as input to implement the Future-Ready Workspace Solution for clients. Workspace management is a part of Getronics' worldwide growth strategy as defined following its acquisition by KPN, the leading provider of telecommunications services in the Netherlands. The Future-Ready Workspace is where the services of Getronics and KPN meet. With two million workspaces serviced worldwide across large organizations, Getronics has the client base and infrastructure to make Future-Ready Workspace a reality for its existing clients and new clients ready to try a more agile and evolutionary approach to supplying their workforce with computing resources. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |