Tracking information on 250,000 students, processing US$2.5 billion in financial transactions and handling 1 million salary payments each year recently got easier for TIES, a St. Paul, Minn.-based consortium of 36 school districts. In April, TIES, which has been delivering technology solutions to educators for more than 30 years, switched to Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server and Unisys ES7000 to help ease administration workloads, increase access to TIES services and cut costs. The Windows Datacenter Program addresses the demanding requirements of enterprise customers who require reliable software for high-traffic networks and the ability to support a large number of applications and users on fewer servers. The program includes a joint support team, coupling Microsoft resources with those of server-hardware vendors for the ease of one-stop guidance.
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