Reduce Cost and Complexity: Manageability

While final IT investment decisions are often driven by business cases, the reality is that the single largest cost area contributing to TCO is the manageability of the solution.

Better and easier manageability translates to time savings for you and cost savings for your organization.
“With Operations Manager 2007, we’re gaining a level of monitoring we never had before. We’re reaching out to more of the enterprise than we ever could do with our Linux software.”

—Robert Fort, CIO, Virgin Megastores USA
In that sense, identifying the platform that allows you to extend the capabilities of IT to meet the needs of your internal and external customers, while maintaining security and reliability, really is the business case.

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To improve manageability and decrease total cost of ownership, St Leonard's College chose Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V™ virtualization technology over solutions from Novell or Vmware.
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R Systems
By implementing a Windows-based solution, HPC services provider R Systems decreased its time spent on deployment and administration, and is experiencing improved support over its Linux systems.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital
Nationwide Children's Hospital is experiencing increased systems management capabilities over its Linux-based environment due to a Windows® HPC Server 2008 deployment.
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