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Reduce IT Costs

In an economic downturn, targeted IT investments can help you not just survive, but stand out in a turbulent and competitive marketplace. Microsoft technologies—proven, familiar, and well-integrated—are optimized to help you maintain control over IT costs and achieve a competitive advantage.

Learn how working with Microsoft can help you realize cost savings for rapid change and long-term benefits.

Optimize Your IT Infrastructure

Optimize Your IT Infrastructure

Now more than ever, IT budgets and resources are constrained. But you still want to help your business with IT services and solutions that deliver competitive advantages. The Microsoft platform is a proven foundation for helping control IT costs while improving competitiveness. Integrated technologies such as virtualization, security, and centralized management make it easier to lower your IT costs and build solutions within the familiar Windows environment that can help you win in today's challenging marketplace.

Implement Virtualization

Implement Virtualization

Virtualization is an easy way to reduce spending on hardware, electricity, and space in the datacenter while driving more value from existing server investments by consolidating server workloads and improving utilization. Virtualization helps your datacenter to be more agile by quickly making computing power available to respond to new challenges and opportunities. Management technology is the key. Deep integration of virtualization and Microsoft System Center management solutions give you unparalleled control and greater utilization of physical and virtual server assets.

Improve System Management

Improve System Management

Management technology can help you reduce operating costs and make your organization more agile and better aligned with strategic goals. Microsoft System Center management solutions help you lower costs and improve service levels across key workloads, including server and desktop management. We have identified 31 best practices that organizations can implement today to reduce costs and drive better business performance.

Save Costs Through Desktop Optimization

Save Costs Through Desktop Optimization

You can reduce the complexity of managing desktops across your entire IT landscape, in some cases by as much as 80 percent, using Microsoft Desktop Optimization technologies and implementing a proven set of best practices. Realize the benefits of optimized desktops through Microsoft technology, tools, and guidance.

Lower Database Administration Costs

Lower Database Administration Costs

Applications and data volumes increase as businesses operate in a connected world. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 can help customers significantly reduce the costs of storing and managing this data explosion. SQL Server 2008 automates maintenance tasks across multiple servers, helping to ensure compliance at as little as one-tenth the cost of Oracle's competing solutions.

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