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Exploring the advantages of virtualization
Dear Subscriber,
More and more midsize businesses are discovering the advantages of virtualization.
Microsoft virtualization technologies help you optimize your assets, centrally managing
all of your physical and virtual resources across multiple hypervisors down to the
application level. Organizations benefit by maximizing their flexibility, taking
advantage of powerful management strategies at the server and desktop level, increasing
operational efficiency, and cutting deployment costs.
In this month’s issue of Momentum, we spotlight the advantages of virtualization,
from both an IT management and ROI point of view. We think you’ll see that
there has never been a better time to explore the benefits of virtualization in
your company.
Best regards,
Christoph Wilfert
General Manager
US Midsize Business
Microsoft
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There are plenty of short- and long-term benefits from virtualization—and
you don't need a big budget. Read this article for four cost-cutting ideas.
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In this tough economic climate, you are probably looking for ways to cut costs without
affecting your IT operations. Underutilized servers drive up power and cooling costs,
but you can minimize those costs when you look to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning
(MAP) Toolkit to identify potential servers for consolidation.
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The Windows Azure Services Platform represents a cost-effective way to deliver business
value through an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in
Microsoft data centers. Azure provides a fully interoperable environment with support
of industry standards and Web protocols, including REST, SOAP, and XML. You can
utilize the various Azure services individually or together to build new applications
or extend existing ones.
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The new Office Open XML Formats provide a wide range of functionality in the 2007
Office system programs and can help you reduce file size, improve document security,
and troubleshoot problem documents far more easily than ever before. In this course,
the first in a series of three, learn the basics of working with these new file
formats and get an introduction to the XML structure behind your documents.
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Design/build firm improves project management with simplified access to analytics
KDA Holdings, a design/build firm based in Georgia, needed to better track profit
margins on its projects, but was limited by its Sage Timberline software. Managers
at KDA could not easily analyze information in Timberline because of the slow performance
of the database, a reliance on outside consultants to create sophisticated reports,
and the accounting system’s inflexibility.
To improve operations, KDA worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner SIS to switch
to Microsoft Dynamics SL. With the new solution, KDA managers and executives have
real-time insight into their business and can better evaluate project information,
leading to more efficient operations and project management. Since switching to
Microsoft Dynamics SL, the company has improved average profit margins on its projects
by 3 percent, simplified data access, and streamlined accounting.
Learn more about the KDA Holdings solution.
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This webcast will showcase how Microsoft Online Services can help reduce your costs,
streamline business communications, and simplify IT management, all in a more secure
and reliable environment.
Register now.
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New to business intelligence (BI) and want a quick look at how to use a PerformancePoint
Server dashboard? These courses are for you.
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