Executive Keynotes
Debra Chrapaty Keynote - May 1, 2008Debra Chrapaty, corporate vice-president of Global Foundation Services, shares her thoughts on building, connecting, securing and managing clouds that support hundreds of millions of customers around the world, around the clock.
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Brad Anderson Keynote - April 30, 2008
Brad Anderson, General Manager, Management and Services Division, announced details on the product roadmaps for specific tools within the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance.
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Bob Muglia Keynote – April 29, 2008
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., outlined the next phase in the company’s strategy to enable organizations to achieve more dynamic IT and announced technology innovations that accrue to that strategy.
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Press Releases
- Microsoft Expands Data Center Management Capabilities With Cross Platform and Virtualization Support (April 29, 2008)
- Cost Savings and IT Space Constraints Top Reasons Why Retailers Adopting Virtualization, Reports Microsoft Survey (April 29, 2008)
- Banks Adopting a Wide Variety of Virtualization Technologies to Centralize Deployment and Save Energy, Reports Microsoft Survey (April 29, 2008)
Videos
Larry Orecklin, General Manager of System Center Marketing, gives Adam Carter from TechNet Edge a brief overview of the MMS announcements around Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager.
Brad Anderson, General Manager, Management and Services Division, Microsoft Corp. discusses how virtualization enables the dynamic datacenter
Brad Anderson, General Manager, Management and Services Division, Microsoft Corp. highlights the significant role Partners play in Microsoft Strategy
Brad Anderson, General Manager, Management and Services Division, Microsoft Corp. discusses feedback from customers on what it means to be a heterogeneous vendor.
With a nationwide network of distribution centers and service specialists, The SCOOTER Store is the leading supplier of power mobility devices in the United States. Since 1991, The SCOOTER Store has helped more than 300,000 people with mobility challenges lead full, self-sufficient lives. The company must maintain agile and flexible IT systems to stay in compliance with changing government mandates, manage accelerating growth, provide comprehensive service to its customers, and administer its distribution, sales, and billing. To save money and better align its IT infrastructure with its business needs, The SCOOTER Store needed to consolidate its physical IT environment. The SCOOTER Store deployed Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to make its IT infrastructure a more dynamic strategic asset for the enterprise.
In this video from TechNet Edge, Adam Carter interviews Barry Shilmover as he uses Ops Manager to manage an application that is spread across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Apache, and IIS, hosted on Windows, Solaris, Suse and Redhat. All using open standards for management.
TechNet Edge's Adam Carter talks with Robert Reynolds, Director of Product Planning for System Center, about the cross-platform announcements around System Center and Virtual Machine Manager. Robert answers the question of “Why do cross platform now?”
Microsoft Management Summit Spokespeople
- Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Corp.
- Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center Marketing, Microsoft Corp.
- Brad Anderson, General Manager, Management and Services Division, Microsoft Corp.
- Dai Vu, Director, Virtualization Products and Solutions Marketing, Microsoft Corp.
- Robert Reynolds, Director, System Center Product Management, Microsoft Corp.
- John Novak, Group Product Manager, System Center, Microsoft Corp.
Customer Evidence
- “We are using Virtual Machine Manager to achieve efficient P2V and virtual-to-virtual conversion. We have saved approximately 30 percent in labor costs to manage our new environment to date.”
Marko Pranic, Deputy Executive Director of IT and Direct Banking Division, Raiffeisenbank Austria - “By using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, we obtain tremendous benefits in terms of time and ease of management. I only need one tool to operate and manage my entire virtual data center.”
Jason Foster, Systems Architect Senior Manager, Technology, Continental Airlines - “By using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Kroll Factual Data will be able to automate the manual processes it had implemented for managing its VM infrastructure. We expect the managerial load will decrease by 25 percent to 40 percent.”
Christopher M. Steffen, Principal Technical Architect, Kroll Factual Data - “Using System Center Operations Manager 2007 … to streamline our processes and get better efficiencies, we reduced the workload on other engineering teams by 5,700 hours.”
Mark Helman, Director, Enterprise IT Management Solutions, Stewart Information Services - “We want to focus on one suite of products from one vendor, and we really like Microsoft’s holistic System Center vision for the data center.”
Robert Carlson, Vice President of Solution Design and Delivery, Cervalis - more customer information (.pptx file, 666 KB)