Imagine your next business decision as a pyramid.
Here are the advantages of upgrading your server infrastructure. For a start, you could cut hardware and energy costs, improve reliability, availability and scalability, simplify management and reduce your environmental impact. Windows Server 2008 R2 offers built-in Hyper-V to virtualize system resources without third-party software, Live Migration of virtual machines with no downtime and DirectAccess that connects remote users without the need for establishing a VPN. Microsoft Forefront helps deliver protection and secure access to your server infrastructure. Additionally, Microsoft System Center handles your virtual and physical environments across multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux and UNIX, to give you control over it all from a single pane of glass.
Efficiency is lower costs, lower downtime and lower stress on your IT department.
"In the past with IT, you had the priests of the mainframe who controlled and defined how end users accessed information and how they used it. They controlled where and when and how. But today, end users are demanding to be able to access information and process it wherever they’re located - in the office or on the road or on a beach sipping a piña colada. IT has to respond to that, and they need different choices in technology to make it possible."
"What about availability? In the past, telling somebody you can stand up a Windows Server environment was one thing. But to stand it up and make it highly available to meet three 9’s, four nine’s, five 9’s, or whatever the requirement is, now it gets a little scary. But the new clustering wizards have greatly reduced the complexity. You have a prescribed way of quickly deploying a variety of highly available options for your Windows Server environment."
“Do you know that with the new power management capabilities, you could reduce your electric bill by eight to twelve percent just by upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2? I mean, why would you not want to do that?”
"I think with more and more people looking to virtualize the desktop or applications in the desktop, they’re going to want a single way of managing the entire IT infrastructure, and Systems Center is well positioned to do that. I picture the IT guy sitting there with his cup of coffee and needing to schedule extra visits to the gym because he no longer has to run out and physically touch desktop boxes anymore. From a single console he’s managing the world. Both server and desktop."
