Speakers

The three launch products have already made at impact to various New Zealand organisations, as represented by the experience of these IT sector professionals

BI

Secure Trusted Platform

"SQL Server 2008 gives us key advances in development and synchronisation. The interfaces to Visual Studio and support for international access standards makes developing, integrating and testing spatial applications easy."
{Matti Seikkula} e-Spatial Limited

"Once again, a rock solid release of SQL Server with some fantastic new features."
{Trevor Loader} Eureka Software Development

"SQL Server 2008 opens up new worlds for Business Intelligence - you can integrate all your data into a truly scalable Enterprise DataWarehouse, and then empower every user with the ability to make decisions faster, see trends and patterns in data and determine the best course of action, right from the front of line staff to the CEO."
{Rob Hawthorne} Prophesy Limited

"For Kiwibank, we will be able to leverage the new development toolset’s added functionality - including improved designers, LINQ for data access, multi-targeting and Office development features with little or no disruption as we continue to upgrade from earlier versions of Visual Studio."
{Bohdan Szymanik} KiwiBank

"I can't wait till Windows 2008 Server releases to immediately deploy NAP enforcement for my company and its customers."
{Douglas Lovell} Amnet

Next Gen Web

Virtualisation

"We have been running geekzone.co.nz on Windows Server 2008 RC since early November 2007. In those 2.5 months Geekzone served more than 6 million page requests, always with great performance - we have received many comments from our users pointing out how faster they felt the site since we installed Windows Server 2008."
{Mauricio Freitas} Geekzone

"Virtualisation in Windows Server 2008 looks very promising. I plan to combine Server Core + PHP + IIS7 + MySQL to improve the functionality of our large children's television site."
{Clinton Rocksmith} Taylormade Media

"At Trade Me it's important that we use the best tools for the job - when we saw Visual Studio 2008 we knew it was a good step up from previous versions."
{Alan Howard} Trade Me

“We have migrated Revera’s company applications to Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 and will look to commence a wider rollout to our VDC platform over the next quarter.”
{Robin Cockayne} REVERA

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