At the heart of your organization lies your core infrastructure. Everything depends on it, and much of your organization’s time is spent managing it. Core infrastructure includes data center services such as virtualization and networking; client services such as client management and security; identity and security services such as access and information control; and IT processes and compliance. All of these capabilities work together to support your enterprise, and anything you can do to optimize these capabilities has widespread benefits. Dynamic IT: Aligning IT and Business We are focused on helping customers achieve their goals to drive strategic business value from IT. We believe IT pros and developers — when armed with the right skills, infrastructure and tools—can drive down costs and complexity and increase IT innovation. Specifically, we help customers in the following ways:
Virtualization is one of the most effective methods to save costs, increase availability, and improve agility within an organization’s infrastructure. Microsoft Virtualization solutions provide you with the way to optimize your infrastructure by helping IT provide the services more rapidly and efficiently so your organization can consume these services more effectively in a dynamically changing business climate. Get Savings and Value You can get more value and a higher return on investment with Microsoft Virtualization through lower upfront costs, reduced operational expenses, resources expenditures both capital, power and space consumption, and operational, time and effort, and simplified desktop and application management. Increase Availability and Access With Microsoft Virtualization, you can increase availability by improving service levels, minimizing disruption to services, enhancing desktop business continuity, and provide access where and when you need it. Make Your Business Agile Microsoft Virtualization gives your business the opportunity to become more flexible and adaptable by helping your IT department provide the resources your organization needs when they need them. Manage Both Physical and Virtual The more you virtualize, the more complex your environment can become, and the more essential it is to have a comprehensive integrated management system to enable a cost-effective, dynamic infrastructure. Microsoft System Center provides a suite of tools to manage physical and virtual IT resources from the hardware through the OS to the applications across your entire infrastructure.
The most competitive organizations seek increasing levels of business responsiveness and operational efficiency while optimizing their datacenter environments to deliver reliable datacenter services. Building on their Dynamic IT investments, many organizations are looking to transition their datacenters to cloud computing models which offer great potential to deliver increased agility at much lower costs. Microsoft System Center products helps you deliver agile and cost effective data center services with integrated management across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. System Center uniquely bridges the gap between private and public clouds with common management across infrastructure, platform, and applications. System Center is the market leader in helping organizations:
As businesses look to drive growth, they need to increase collaboration, sharing and access to information but must do so while protecting their assets and infrastructure. Frequently this must be addressed in the context of shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure. In response to these business challenges and opportunities, Microsoft is taking a fundamentally different approach to security. We call it business-ready security. In Microsoft's next-generation of security products launching this year we will bring to market a comprehensive set of five solutions aligned with the business ready security strategy. These solutions align strongly with the needs of our customers to help secure their key workloads and infrastructure deployments while enhancing the value of current and planned IT investments and helping maximize ROI. Microsoft is working to achieve the strategy of business-ready security based on three fundamental tenets:
Today, Windows Server is the #1 server operating system used to run deployed mission critical applications. In the 1980s and 1990s, however, most enterprises deployed mission critical applications on mainframes and UNIX systems, while running many departmental applications on Windows servers. Over the past decade, a new generation of x86 server hardware, based on multicore x86 processors, has emerged. They provide stronger support for virtualization and improved management capabilities. Microsoft and its server OEM partners have invested heavily in improving both the hardware and the software environment for mission critical workloads. And Microsoft’s ISV partners, such as SAP, continue to design and tune performance of their line of business applications on the Windows Server platform. No matter what business you are in, certain applications and systems are vital to the daily operation and long-term success of your enterprise. Choosing a server platform for these applications and systems is a strategic decision for CIOs and other business leaders that are seeking to drive efficiencies and turn IT into a strategic asset.
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