Windows Server 8 Hyper V®

Windows Server 8 Hyper V enables developers to easily maintain multiple test environments and provides a simple mechanism to quickly switch between these environments without incurring additional hardware costs:

  • "Live Storage Move" capability helps your virtual machines run independent of the underlying storage.
  • Snapshot allows Windows Server 8 Hyper V to take fast copy of a virtual machine while it is running, and is a great tool when trying to debug tricky problems.
  • Windows Server 8 Hyper V virtual machines keep all of the manageability benefits of Windows. Windows Update can patch Windows Server 8 Hyper V components, so you don’t need to set up additional maintenance processes.

Windows Server ® 8

Windows Server 8 brings the experience from building and operating public clouds to delivering the most dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform for the private cloud. It offers businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that securely connects across premises and allows IT to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.

Windows Server 8 is the broadest, most scalable and elastic web and application platform, giving you the flexibility to build and deploy applications on-premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment, using a consistent, open set of tools and frameworks. Windows 8 server features:

  • A complete virtualization platform that delivers a fully isolated, multi-tenant environment with tools that can guarantee service-level agreements, enable chargebacks through usage-based billing, and support self-service delivery.
  • Increased scalability and performance achieved through a high-density, highly scalable environment that can be modified to perform at the optimum level based on your needs.
  • Connectivity to cloud services that uses a common identity and management framework for secure and reliable cross-premises connectivity.
  • Cloud-enabled infrastructure that satisfies business needs faster and more efficiently by providing a highly available, easy-to-manage multi-server platform.
  • Cost efficiency attained by leverages commodity storage, networking, and server infrastructure, as well as offering increased power efficiency for superior acquisition and operating economics.

System Center 2012


System Center 2012 will enable your IT managers and your customers’ IT Managers build Private Clouds with the infrastructure they know and own today — including other vendors’ platforms and virtualization technologies. While ISVs are using Microsoft virtualization to deploy server applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint® Server, IT professionals are trying to speed up deployment, troubleshooting and overall visibility. System Center 2012 help them ensure that their applications reliably perform as intended for colleagues and customers. In an age where sudden heavy server loads and ad hoc demand is commonplace, IT Professionals can benefit from a management solution that dynamically addresses IT requirements.

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 allows IT managers to pool and dynamically allocate Hyper-V®, Azure and other 3rd party virtualized datacenter resources into Cloud infrastructure for various business groups to adopt a self-service model.
  • New standardized service modeling and configuration, and image-based management, allows IT to manage business application services, not just virtual machines.
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 will fully integrate technology from AVIcode acquisition for monitoring and to gain deep insights into .NET and J2EE applications for maximum availability and performance. It also adds new dashboard features for better SLA tracking and network performance monitoring.
  • System Center Service Manager 2012 will enable self-service requests from datacenter managers, business unit IT managers, developers and end users (e.g., a developer can more efficiently request Cloud resources).
  • System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 offers new, enterprise-class centralized backup and protection and increased depth of support for Hyper-V and workloads like SharePoint, and streamline support.
Microsoft® System Center 2012

SQL Server ® 2012


Tech•Days Hong Kong 2012 features the widely anticipated launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Microsoft’s most popular SQL Server enables a Cloud-ready information platform that will help unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises infrastructure, Private Cloud and Azure™, backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence:

  • Deliver required uptime and data protection with AlwaysOn.
  • Gain breakthrough and predictable performance with ColumnStore Index
  • Help enable security and compliance with new User-defined Roles and Default Schema for Groups.
  • Enable rapid data discovery for deeper insights across the organization with ColumnStore Index.
  • Ensure more credible, consistent data with SSIS improvements, a Master Data Services add-in for Excel, and new Data Quality Services.
  • Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and Cloud with Data-tier

Application Component (DAC) parity with SQL Azure and SQL Server Data Tools for a unified development experience across database, BI, and Cloud functions.

Microsoft® SQL Server 2012