Server & Tools

Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding new features to enable organizations to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures.

High Performance Computing gives analysts, engineers and scientists the computation resources they need to make better decisions, fuel product innovation, speed research and development, and accelerate time to market.

Windows Small Business Server offers you a server solution with reduced complexity and increased manageability over traditional enterprise servers, helping you to focus on running a more efficient business.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers a highly productive and complete database solution that helps organizations harness and unlock the value of information at a low total-cost-of-ownership. Mission critical capabilities support high-end applications while revolutionary analytics tools put powerful data discovery in the hands of end users.

Deploy high performance solutions in days, not months, through the new appliances from HP and Microsoft. Each appliance, optimized for SQL Server 2008 R2, is pre-configured and pre-tuned by the experts at Microsoft and HP.

Trust Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to meet your most demanding data-warehousing requirements. Benefit from enterprise-class scale and performance, and gain actionable business insights affordably with integrated BI and ETL tools.

Designed as part of the world’s most popular business productivity suite, Microsoft Business Intelligence is designed to empower business users through the familiar tools they already know how to use today.

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.

Microsoft SQL Azure is a highly available, and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies.  With SQL Azure, developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software.

With a private cloud, you get many of the benefits of public cloud computing—including self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources.

Microsoft SQL Server is a cost-effective database platform for hosting solutions that provides value-add features hosters can use to increase revenue by offering new services and capabilities to their customers.

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution. A mature product on its seventh release, BizTalk Server 2010 provides a solution that allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems.

Windows Azure AppFabric provides a comprehensive cloud middleware platform for developing, deploying and managing applications on the Windows Azure Platform. It delivers additional developer productivity adding in higher-level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities on top of the familiar Windows Azure application model.

SOA enables data, logic, and infrastructure resources to be organized as a service and be accessed by routing messages between network interfaces. SOA helps IT to become an accelerator for business agility and innovation.

Microsoft Visual Studio is a comprehensive suite of development tools that gives all developers—from beginners to seasoned pros working in large teams—the tools they need to create applications for SharePoint, the web, Windows, Windows Phone, and beyond.

Whether you are creating content for the Web, developing apps for the desktop or phone, encoding live or on demand video, the Expression tools provide the capabilities you need to deliver better results for your clients.

The .NET Framework is Microsoft's platform for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes.

With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Using SharePoint 2010, your people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions

Microsoft® Lync™ ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere.

Enterprise search helps you find what you need faster. Search Server 2010 Express is free to download, simple and flexible to configure, and powerful enough to meet your needs.

A unified productivity platform allows business solutions such as content management, enterprise search, and collaboration to work together using a single platform. It’s the most effective way to connect people, processes, and information across your organization.

World-class customer experiences begin with your people. By giving your people the right tools to boost their productivity and amplify their impact, they can drive your organization to achieve your goals and generate maximum return.

Commerce Server 2009 provides organizations with powerful and cutting-edge, out-of-the-box capabilities designed to build enjoyable online shopping experiences.

System Center solutions help IT pros manage the physical and virtual information technology (IT) environments across datacenters, client computers, and devices. Discover what System Center solutions can do for your IT environment.

Microsoft Forefront delivers end-to-end security and access to information through an integrated line of protection, access and identity management products.

Microsoft works with our customers and partners to design, build, and support mission critical solutions that create business value and foster innovation. After all, it’s not products that enable a mission critical enterprise—it’s a combination of people, process, and technology.

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