Virtual Server Partners

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is a trusted and diversified information-technology supplier and partner, and sells a comprehensive portfolio of products and services directly to customers worldwide. Dell, recognized by Fortune magazine as America's most admired company and No. 3 globally, designs, builds, and delivers innovative, tailored systems that provide customers with exceptional value.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses, and institutions globally. Customers can simplify IT environments by consolidating or increasing server utilization with HP ProLiant servers running Virtual Server 2005.

The HP ProLiant server sizer for Microsoft Virtual Server is an automated tool that assists the user in selecting the server environment necessary to support Microsoft Virtual Server. This tool provides a quick and consistent methodology to determine a "best-fit" server for your individual needs. See the HP ProLiant server sizer for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.

"Virtualization is an important step to making IT resources more adaptive to business demands. HP is delivering robust management for Virtual Server implementations as well as server migration technology to help customers quickly consolidate servers. Through HP's collaboration with Microsoft, we'll help customers break down the physical barriers that impede IT and help customers realize the promise of self-managing, dynamic systems."
Rick Becker
Vice President and General Manager, BladeSystem Division
HP

With more than 50 years of virtualization technology experience, IBM has the service capabilities and the hardware in place to handle customers' virtualization solution needs. An IBM eServer xSeries server running Virtual Server 2005 is an ideal tool for consolidating and migrating Windows NT 4.0 servers to Windows Server 2003. Virtual machines enable customers to run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single physical server, providing for much more effective utilization of the underlying hardware. xSeries servers with Virtual Server 2005 provide a solution that is optimized to deliver this capability in a Windows Server 2003 environment.

"IBM is pleased to be working with Microsoft to expand virtualization capabilities in the x86 market. Microsoft's new licensing policies and technology investments complement our xSeries technologies and Windows virtualization strategy, so together we will aid customers in achieving greater system utilization and lowering total cost of ownership, responding more effectively to changing business conditions.
Leo Suarez
Vice President and Business Line Executive, xSeries Division
IBM Systems and Technology Group

NEC Solutions America is the premier leader in providing integrated solutions for the connected enterprise. The NEC Express5800/340Hb-R High Availability Fault Tolerant server supports Virtual Server 2005 and provides 99.999 percent continuous availability. The NEC Express5800/340Hb-R High Availability Fault Tolerant solution offers the answers to customers looking for server consolidation, server virtualization, and high performance computing for data center applications.

Read the NEC Express5800 Fault Tolerant Virtual Server Quick Start Guide.
This Guide will provide you with the necessary steps to install and configure hardware and software components for your virtual environment. In addition, the Guide will outline a solution scenario that provides you with the necessary information to deploy virtual solutions by using FT Servers and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 in production environments.

"Customers today want to maximize their current technology investment while consolidating the number of servers in their architecture. NEC is one of the only major enterprise manufacturers offering a new four-way, high-availability server, the Express5800/340Hb-R. With 99.999-percent uptime and the full support of Virtual Server 2005, we are helping to provide our customers with a reliable and secure platform for server virtualization and consolidation."
Larry Sheffield
Senior Vice President, Solutions Platform Group
NEC Solutions America

AMD (NYSE:AMD) designs and produces innovative microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries. AMD is dedicated to delivering standards-based, customer-focused solutions for technology users, ranging from enterprises and governments to individual consumers.

"AMD and Microsoft are working closely together to move businesses to a dynamic 64-bit computing world in which IT resources are intelligently and flexibly assigned as business needs change. The Windows platform, running on the AMD64 processors with the upcoming 'Pacifica' virtualization technology enhancements, will help businesses consolidate resources and experience an efficient and robust virtualization environment while helping to reduce the total cost of ownership of computing resources."
Joe Menard
Corporate Vice President, Software Strategy
AMD

Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions.

"Emulex is working closely with Microsoft to support its server virtualization strategy. Virtual servers are designed to improve server utilization and provide management efficiencies, while host bus adapters are the critical linkage to networked storage that ensures the full range of server virtualization benefits are realized. Emulex is committed to delivering a SAN connectivity solution that enables a broader class of servers to harness the benefits of SANs within Microsoft-based virtualized server environments."
Mike Smith
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing
Emulex

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Intel Xeon processor-based servers provides an optimized, enterprise-class solution that can help IT organizations deploy virtualization with confidence across a broader range of production scenarios, while reducing total costs and delivering a better return on their investment.

Intel white paper: Achieving Breakthrough Value for Server Virtualization (PDF)

"Intel is pleased to see Microsoft taking the necessary steps to enable self-managing dynamic systems which will increase operational efficiency and be more responsive to business needs. These types of developments are supported by Intel's advanced technology road map and our vision of providing increased value through computing platforms. Intel is working closely with Microsoft to supply innovations such as Intel Virtualization Technology as the underlying hardware infrastructure for these enterprise solutions."
Diane Bryant
Vice President and General Manager, Server Platform Group
Intel

QLogic is a leading supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches and Fibre Channel stackable switches. The company is also a leading supplier of iSCSI HBAs. QLogic products are delivered to small, medium, and large enterprises around the world, powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems.

"Server virtualization and SANs will be instrumental in revolutionizing the data center by increasing operational efficiency in both computing and storage. As the leader in SAN innovation, we are excited about our strategic relationship with Microsoft to drive new virtualization solutions that deliver significant value to Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN users."
Frank Berry
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
QLogic

Xsigo Systems is the leader in server I/O virtualization, a hardware / software solution that dramatically reduces operational expense by changing the way that servers are connected to networks and storage. The Xsigo I/O Director enables a 100X more responsive infrastructure where changes become far simpler to implement, applications and Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines can be provisioned with the exact connectivity they need in seconds rather than days or weeks, and software re-cabling eliminates the need to enter the data center. The ideal complement to Microsoft Virtual Server, Xsigo can quickly provision I/O resources to individual virtual machines while providing hardware-based traffic isolation for security.

"Xsigo and Microsoft are working aggressively to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of today's data center. By combining the benefits of server and I/O virtualization, data center managers are able to dramatically improve the utilization of their servers while creating an agile environment that can easily keep pace with rapidly changing business requirements." Jon Toor
VP of Marketing
Xsigo Systems

Acronis offers storage management solutions that are technically advanced for mission-critical applications but easy to use. The company provides disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning, boot management, privacy, data migration, and other storage management products for enterprises, corporations, and consumers of any qualification.

Read the Acronis-Microsoft white paper: Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Downtime Recovery with Acronis True Image and Microsoft Virtual Server (Word document)

"Combining Acronis' real-time disk imaging and backup capabilities with Microsoft's virtualization technologies and royalty-free Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) license provides a powerful value proposition for enterprise and hosting customers. Server virtualization is the enabling technology for tomorrow's dynamic data centers, but without comprehensive tools like those offered by Microsoft, enterprises will struggle to fully realize the benefits of the dynamic data centers."
Walter Scott
CEO
Acronis

BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC) is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases, and service management.

"BMC Software is working with Microsoft virtualization technology as part of our effort to improve the management and optimization of virtualized systems. Our customers are rapidly adopting virtualization to improve server utilization and business service availability. BMC is enthusiastic about Microsoft's software licensing changes, which deliver immediate flexibility and cost savings to customers. BMC plans to extend to Virtual Server 2005 R2 many of the same Business Service Management solutions we offer for management of physical servers and other virtual environments."
Fred Johannessen
Program Executive for Capacity Management and Provisioning
BMC

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA), the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle, and service management to optimize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, New York, and operates in more than 100 countries.

"Virtual Server 2005 is a powerful solution for corporate IT organizations seeking to increase the efficiency of their processing infrastructure and to more flexibly respond to the shifting demands of the business. By delivering same-day support, CA is enabling our mutual customers to immediately manage their new on-demand environments, protect the data in those environments with unprecedented efficiency, and maintain the highest levels of information security—without having to increase staff workloads or headcount."
Juliette Sultan
Senior Vice President of Product Marketing
Computer Associates

Invirtus pioneered the technology credited with reducing the size of virtual machines and continues to lead the development of tools that assist with the management of virtualization technologies. Invirtus products are employed by corporations worldwide to help better manage their internal requirements for sharing, deploying and archiving virtual machine technologies.

"Microsoft's virtualization platform and Invirtus' P2V, DR, software appliance and optimization technologies provide powerful and unique value propositions to customers of all sizes. Invirtus software allows customers to obtain maximum benefit from their investment in virtual infrastructure."
Tom Edwards
CEO
Invirtus

Leostream is a leading provider of management software for virtual machine software from Microsoft and VMware. Leostream centralizes the management of virtual servers running on different physical servers and provides cataloging, classification, movement, monitoring, failover, and control of virtual machines, plus SAN and Microsoft Active Directory integration, and additional security functionality such as fine-grained access control.

"By licensing Microsoft's open VHD format, Leostream can offer a new generation of business continuity solutions that enable a 10x improvement in recovery time and reliability compared with traditional solutions."
David Crosbie
CEO
Leostream Corp.

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. NetApp® storage solutions include specialized hardware, software, and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments, and Yahoo!, utilize NetApp global data management solutions. Information about Network Appliance™ solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

"Network Appliance looks forward to the strategic relationship with Microsoft in the development and deployment of virtualization solutions that will today meet customer needs. Today's dynamic business environment requires the ability to rapidly deploy applications and quickly respond to changing requirements. The combination of Microsoft Virtualized Platforms and Network Appliance storage and Storage Virtualization provides an effective TCO story. Through this relationship with Microsoft, Network Appliance expects to deliver even more compelling TCO solutions for the dynamic provisioning of system and storage that provide flexibility for current and emerging business requirements."
Patrick Rogers
Vice President, Products and Partners Marketing
Network Appliance

PlateSpin is a leading supplier of technology and solutions that help companies measure, consolidate, and optimize the server resources in the data center. With over 500 customers and 85 resellers, PlateSpin is providing an automated operating environment portability platform to world-class enterprises looking to balance and optimize the use of both physical and virtual infrastructure server environments to improve service levels and lower operational costs. Get PlateSpin's Inventory Assessment solution at no cost to start a virtualization assessment. Free license of PowerRecon Inventory.

"Virtual Server 2005 is a critical component in many server consolidation projects that we see today. The combination of PlateSpin PowerConvert and Virtual Server 2005 is a proven solution, and we are working closely with Microsoft to ensure that we leverage its technology today and into the future so that we can offer our customers a market-leading solution for optimizing the data center."
Eric Courville
Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development
PlateSpin

PolyServe, Inc. is a leading provider of software for enabling utility computing on the Microsoft Windows platform in enterprise data centers. PolyServe's unique shared data clustering software virtualizes industry-standard servers and storage as a single system to set new price-performance standards for file serving and server consolidation.

"We share Microsoft's vision for leveraging virtualization technology to create a more agile, dynamic infrastructure. Combining our shared data clustering software with Virtual Server 2005 R2, we're able to run multiple applications across a highly available and easily managed cluster of physical servers and storage. The result is an ideal solution for large enterprises that aim to consolidate applications in an on-demand utility for a significant savings in management costs."
Mike Stankey
President and CEO
PolyServe

Portlock is a leading developer of storage management and disaster recovery software that helps companies manage stored information and protect business-critical data. For over 6,000 customers and 250 resellers, Portlock provides a proven solution enabling enterprises to leverage both physical and virtual infrastructure server environments, ensure reliable data protection, offer complete information lifecycle portability, and lower operational costs.

"Microsoft's Virtual Server APIs make it easy for our developers to build on the Virtual Server platform. As a result, our support for the Microsoft virtualization platform is rapidly evolving and we are working closely with Microsoft to leverage so that we can offer our customers a proven solution for optimizing storage and protecting data across the value chain — from the desktop to the data center."
John J. Hanley
CEO
Portlock Software

Quest Software, Inc. delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, and infrastructure. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 18,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT.

"Quest's mission is to help our customers make the most of their investments in the Windows Server infrastructure, and with Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft offers an important step forward in the cost-effective use of virtualization technology. By making the VHD format open and available to customers and ISVs, and by providing APIs for managing Virtual Server deployments, they are raising the bar on using virtualization technology to reduce the cost of computing."
Darren Mar-Elia
CTO, Infrastructure Management
Quest Software

rPath's rBuilder and rPath Appliance Platform transform applications into software appliances. Software appliances simplify server applications by eliminating the hassles of installation, configuration, and maintenance. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can expand their markets and simultaneously reduce development and support costs by adopting the software appliance approach. rBuilder supports Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format which allows ISVs to build their image as a VHD virtual appliance with no additional engineering effort.

"Microsoft Viridian promises to open up tremendous opportunities for non-Microsoft applications to reach customers that prefer Microsoft's server platform. Application providers can choose Linux as their preferred development environment without requiring customers to learn about Linux in order to enjoy the value of the application. Through collaboration with Microsoft, rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform enable VHD appliances in order to provide flexibility, interoperability, and choice to customers and developers alike."
Billy Marshall
Chief Executive Officer
rPath

Sanbolic provides software for shared data SAN solutions to extend the capability of Windows platforms and shared storage. Sanbolic's Melio file system and LaScala volume manager enable end-users to aggregate multiple storage arrays into a centrally managed pool of storage and provide multiple Windows work stations or servers concurrent read-and-write access to data over Fibre Channel or iSCSI. This allows SAN storage to be easily administered, expanded and reassigned, while supporting shared data access to improve application availability and/or application scalability.

When Virtual Server 2005 R2 is used with Melio FS, each host machine has simultaneous access to files containing each Virtual Server on SAN storage. Any virtual machine can be moved to any host without copying files across the network. Melio enables virtual machines to be clustered across multiple physical hosts accessing a common shared storage volume using Microsoft Server Clustering. The Server Clustering interface can then be used to migrate active virtual machines running business critical applications across physical host servers. Each virtual machine instance can be migrated separately to any host.

Sanbolic software allows users of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to easily integrate and manage highly available server virtualization solutions using standard Microsoft technologies available with the Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter license.

SteelEye is a leading provider of data protection and application availability solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows. The SteelEye family of application-focused data replication, high availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are easy to deploy and operate, and enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data.

"As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, SteelEye has long provided high availability clustering, continuous data protection and disaster recovery solutions for our customers running business-critical applications on Windows server. Adding support for Microsoft Virtual Server is a natural extension as IT shops migrate their infrastructure to virtualized environments to realize the cost savings of server consolidation."
Bonni-Jo B. Salazar
VP, Strategic Alliances
Steeleye

Surgient is a leading provider of on-demand applications that enable companies to increase the effectiveness of their direct sales, online marketing, technical training, and QA and test processes. Surgient applications enable the use of distributed enterprise applications by any user, on demand, from anywhere at anytime. By automating and eliminating the complexities and high costs of hardware configuration and software environment provisioning, Surgient raises the consistency and reliability of software delivery processes, yielding greater productivity and rapid return on investment.

"Virtual Server enables Surgient to deliver tremendous value to our customers with our on-demand applications. We are thrilled with Microsoft's virtualization plans and investments to enable self-managing dynamic systems. Microsoft's efforts will enable us to deliver even more value to support our customers' sales, marketing, testing, and training needs."
Bill Daniel
President and CEO
Surgient

ToutVirtual, Inc. is an emerging leader in virtualization system management software that manages and automates virtual computing processes to deliver broad-scale virtual system availability and faster root-cause analysis with performance management and capacity planning reports. ToutVirtual software operates across multiple platforms and is multi-tier to prolong product life, protect IT investments, and maximize ROI.

"ToutVirtual is working closely with Microsoft to bring virtual infrastructure management to a new level of simplicity. ToutVirtual's policy-based solutions are plug-and-play appliances that give Microsoft Virtual Server users of the Virtual Hard Disk an easy way to gain visibility, control, and reporting options to automate the successful deployment of enterprise-wide virtualization."
Jess Marinez
President
ToutVirtual, Inc.

UltraBac Software is based in Bellevue, Washington and has been an innovator in designing high-performance and sophisticated utility software for over two decades. The privately held corporation has been specializing in storage management software since 1989, and released UltraBac Backup and Disaster Recovery for Windows NT in 1995. As a technology leader, UltraBac Software has compiled a long list of firsts and has squarely positioned itself as a premier solution provider for users who demand the very best in protection for their mission-critical data. UltraBac is scalable from small to large users and caters to a wide array of diverse business computing environments.

"Innovation, reliability, and support have long been the cornerstones to our success. By listening to our customers we continue to add value to our products while delivering solutions that meet their needs. Integrating our P2V technology with Virtual Server 2005 R2 will only continue to strengthen our position as an industry leader in backup and image-based disaster recovery."
Morgan Edwards
CEO and founder
UltraBac Software

VERITAS Software Corp. (NASDAQ: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 6,700 people in 40 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.75 billion in 2003, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. VERITAS delivers products for data protection, storage and server management, high availability, and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500.

"VERITAS continues to embrace and extend the power of Windows by offering customers an integrated, interoperable, high-availability solution for Virtual Server 2005. With the additional support of Virtual Server 2005, VERITAS Storage Foundation HA for Windows adds to our ongoing efforts to help organizations protect and manage their applications and data regardless of the platform or operating system they choose."
Bob Maness
Senior Director of Product Marketing
VERITAS Software

VMLogix enables software development teams to simplify and accelerate their software lifecycle by harnessing the full power of virtualization technology. The VMLogix LabManager product suite revolutionizes the way complex multi-tier system configurations and test automation scenarios are created, configured, deployed, archived, shared and executed. Using this advanced automation technology, software development teams worldwide can better manage software lifecycle and quality assurance processes across all areas of operations -- development, testing, support, consulting, and IT operations. VMLogix enables enterprise teams to deliver higher quality software at lower cost, much faster than was ever possible before.

"VMLogix shares Microsoft's vision for leveraging intelligent virtualization technology in all phases of the software lifecycle -- development, build, test, production and support. We are pleased to be working closely with Microsoft to integrate VMLogix LabManager with Microsoft Virtual Server Enterprise Edition R2 into a single, powerful, out-of-the-box solution that delivers significant business value to all members of the Microsoft community."
Ravi Gururaj
CEO
VMLogix, Inc.

WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS and Linux. The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, and so on) or a partition that preserves the original structure. With WinImage in place, you can recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content, extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format, and defragment the image. All this and more is delivered in one intuitive user interface that enables imaging right out of the box.

"WinImage is a powerful utility that allows users to create and edit disk images (hard disks, CD-ROMs, floppy disks, etc.). WinImage 8.0 adds full support for the Microsoft VHD format, allowing users to move files to and from a virtual machine's hard drive—even when the virtual machine is not running. Microsoft's open approach to the VHD format and Virtual Server APIs makes it easy to build on the Virtual Server platform and help foster innovation."
Gilles Vollant
Gilles Vollant Software

Agilysys, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative information technology (IT) solutions serving corporate and public-sector customers, with special expertise in select markets, including retail and hospitality. We provide technology solutions – including hardware, software and services – to help customers resolve their most complicated IT needs. Our expertise includes enterprise architecture and high availability, infrastructure optimization, storage and resource management, and business continuity; along with software and services designed specifically for the retail and hospitality markets. We operate from locations throughout North America, and in the United Kingdom and China, with headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida. Agilysys' consultants have assisted clients with virtualization assessments and have leveraged Microsoft's Virtual Server to deploy a flexible server infrastructure for testing, development and production use for a Fortune 50 electronics retailer. The deployment allowed the client to introduce cutting edge IT benefits from virtualization such as rapid provisioning, better availability and streamlined infrastructure. Sepcifically benefits included increasing server processor hardware utilization rates by 20-50%, reducing unplanned downtime to less than one hour a month, reducing the time to provision new servers by over 70% and reducing server hardware footprints by 10-40%. The deployment project was further enhanced with the knowledge that support would be covered within the clients existing enterprise agreements with Microsoft and their Gold Partners such as Agilysys.

Since 1993 Berbee, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation, has been a proven partner to businesses in need of information technology solutions. With over 900 employees across seven Midwest states, Berbee continues to set the standard for uncompromising customer support and technical leadership. Berbee will first assess your environment and determine how virtualization will impact your business. Then we'll implement the solution that's right for you, reducing the cost and complexity of your computing infrastructure so financial resources and personnel are freed up for more strategic initiatives. Contact us to discuss how we can help with your Microsoft Virtual Server-based virtualization deployments.

Customer Evidence:
After providing one of our clients with a server consolidation study and Virtual Server pilot implementation, Berbee assisted them with a build out and migration to the new Microsoft Virtual Server environment.
This company, like many companies today, is experiencing a proliferation of servers across their Information Technology infrastructure. As the number of servers grows, the amount of time necessary to maintain and manage these systems also increases. In addition to the initial capital expenditure for hardware and software, each additional server carries additional operating costs related to systems management, data center space, power and cooling. A primary goal for this client was to lower hardware costs, shorten deployment time and improve the disaster recovery and backup processes.
Berbee studied the company's x86-based servers at one data center location consisting of 345 Windows systems. Based on the data collected, Berbee provided recommendations utilizing Berbee's proven virtualization model for server consolidation. Berbee determined 227 servers as candidates for virtualization using Microsoft Virtual Server. The recommendations indicated how the current server infrastructure load could be handled by 24 3.0 GHz Dual-Core 2-way systems, 16 3.66 GHz 4-way systems, 16 3.0 GHz Dual-Core 4-way systems, or 8 3.0 GHz DC 8-way systems. The recommendation also provided details on present value reduction of 80% of total operating costs over the course of three years. These figures gave the company financial justification for their Virtual Server project.
Following the consolidation study, Berbee assisted the company with the build out of a Microsoft Virtual Server Dual-Core 4-way system and assisted with migration of the first round of virtualization candidates to the new environment. Berbee also assisted with a process and strategy to continue migrating additional servers to Virtual Server.

BRAIN FORCE is a supplier of solutions for the implementation and centralized management of a stable infrastructure. BRAIN FORCE is based in Vienna, Austria. The company currently has 1,400 staff and a turnover of approximately 80 million euros. It has 15 offices in nine European countries. BRAIN FORCE is specialized in desktop- and server management and application management and is a Microsoft SoftGrid Softricity Certified Consulting Partner. We implement Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization to deliver applications that are never installed, yet securely follow users anywhere, on demand.

Customer Evidence
Our clients were seeking to increase agility to users with on-demand applications while decreasing desktop management costs and application deployment costs. The requirements were also an improved management of License (asset mgt) through application virtualization and eliminating application conflicts on desktops. We implemented Packaging Robot with Microsoft SoftGrid Softricity to automatically generate, document and test Microsoft SoftGrid packages and MSI packages. There are major cost and flexibility advantages of application virtualization. With Microsoft SoftGrid Softricity for application virtualization and the Windows Installer, the product Packaging Robot now contains automatic generation of Microsoft SoftGrid packages. Learn more

Charteris helps leading organizations transform their business performance through the strategic application of technology. We focus on three key business areas: helping clients adopt a multi-channel approach; implementing solutions that deliver an integrated enterprise; and achieving operational excellence though infrastructure optimization. With our rare blend of business expertise and technological flair we provide impartial advice and advanced solutions based on the latest proven technologies – bridging the gap between business and technology to enable the agile enterprise.Our technology skills are complemented by business consulting specialists in business transformation, program management, strategic sourcing, advanced Microsoft application development, advanced infrastructure consulting and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Customer Evidence
Charteris works with clients of all sizes to use Microsoft Virtual Server technology to drive down costs. We have helped clients achieve reductions in power consumption by up to 60% whilst driving up service availability to previously unknown levels. We have proven the successful use of Microsoft virtualization technology as a means of optimizing infrastructure from small data centers up to organizations that run many thousands of servers. Our virtualization expertise is based upon using the very latest technologies including those that enable virtualization of the application space as well as virtualizing at the platform level.

Computer Resolutions is a vendor neutral consulting firm specializing in solutions and services to reverse the pains of client-server based computing. Our unique approach allows you to leverage the benefits of Open Systems Technology while centralizing, consolidating and simplifying your infrastructure on Intel Based Servers by the leading manufacturers. We consolidate: servers, storage, desktops, operating systems, and data into an easy to operate and manage environment. Our team of highly educated and experienced engineers is hailed as the ‘go to' partner for architecture, design, implementation and support of virtualized environments for many hardware and consulting firms. Often Computer Resolutions is used as the service delivery arm for major manufacturers to deliver architecture, implementation and support of datacenter focused solutions.

Customer Evidence:
We are working with small to large organizations and converting their physical distributed computing environments into world class consolidated infrastructures using Microsoft Virtual Server. Our expertise is helping our customers consolidate their physical servers and desktops onto enterprise class hardware and storage. Our customers benefit from a simplified infrastructure, simplified disaster recovery with typical recovery times of Days to less than One hours in the event of unplanned downtime. Our customers are also able to operate a more responsive and growing infrastructure on a smaller budget due to typical power and cooling costs that are 90% lower than they required before Virtualization.

Convergent Computing (CCO) has been in business for over 20-yrs and provides planning, implementation, and support assistance to Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Windows, Virtual Server, Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, and SoftGrid. CCO's consultants write the bestselling "Unleashed"-series of books from Sams Publishing based on years or early adopter and production implementation of Microsoft technologies.

Customer Evidence:
Convergent Computing (CCO) helped an enterprise organization consolidate their data center with over 15 racks of servers to fewer than 15 highly available and redundant Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 systems. Not only did the organization decrease their physical rack space usage, they were also able to create redundant virtual server systems that effectively doubled the number of systems they had (for redundancy purposes) without increasing the number of physical systems. This implementation project decreased power consumption by 38% and improved uptime SLA beyond 99.9%. For more information or details on the projects and services offered by Convergent Computing, go to http://www.cco.com, or email info@cco.com.
For assistance preparing for and implementing Microsoft solutions, contact CCO at info@cco.cominfo@cco.com, or visit them at http://www.cco.com.

DBM Associates is "The IT Department for Small Business" and provides complete or supplemental resources for implementing and maintaining cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
DBM Associates has been providing computer and network solutions to companies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania since 1985. Our account executives, consultants and engineers each have 20 to 35 years experience in managing and implementing information technology for companies ranging from small single sites to multi-national enterprises. For more information, please visit http://www.dbma.com.

Customer Evidence:
With three aging servers running line of business applications in a Windows NT Server 4.0 environment supporting 50 users, the issues they faced were:
• reliability and maintainability of the aging server hardware.
• insufficient server disk space had resulted in 'ad hoc' departmental file shares proliferating on client systems.
• administrator had to "jump through hoops" to accomplish tape backups given the drive capacity and time available.
• the need for a cost effective way to gradually migrate to current versions of their LOB applications on new hardware and operating systems.
To resolve the problems, they implemented a new highly redundant server with Windows Server 2003 and Virtual Server 2005 R2. The three Windows NT Server 4.0 systems were migrated to virtual machines through a P2V process. Also, a new integrated backup process was implemented.
First and foremost, the customer now has peace of mind that their business is running on reliable and maintainable equipment. The administrator and users benefited from greatly improved performance, increased disk space, and the remote management capabilities provided by Virtual Server. HP Systems Insight Manager Server Migration Pack was used for the P2V migrations. Also, Symantec Backup Exec was used as the basis of the integrated backups.

GEURTS-IT B.V’s client had a total of 45 server machines which included: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Windows Virtual Servers, Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers in a cluster, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft SQL 2000 and 2005 databases, Microsoft Host Integration Server, and more. One key issue they wanted to address was reducing the total cost of ownership and Window Server Packs. After the migration from 45 server machines to 16 Microsoft virtual servers, they were able to lower costs for administration and backups, as well as provide a higher availability of the production environment (99.999). VMware ESX I3 was the other virtual solution that was evaluated however; local engineers did not have enough knowledge to work with ESX Server.

At Intellinet, we help customers succeed by creating innovative solutions for complex problems to produce client value. Our highly experienced and certified architects, consultants and project leaders deliver senior-level attention to every project, and the Intellinet team never loses sight of the fact that our sole objective is to help our clients achieve theirs.

Customer Evidence:
Intellinet has assisted customers with Virtual Server solutions in many aspects. Primarily, Intellinet has been able to streamline and improve efficiencies in customer environments by using Virtual Server solutions to consolidate and standardize development, QA and Test environments. By providing a standard platform, developers and testers were able to complete their tasks without being hampered by issues related to hardware in heterogeneous environments. Furthermore, Virtual Server enabled a higher capacity for development and testing while using fewer physical resources.

Global Computer Manufacturer
Using Virtual Server 2005, Intellinet has aided a global manufacturing company in the computer industry with a platform to demonstrate and create a preconfigured solution for SoftGrid Application Virtualization. By combining both Server and Application virtualization, the customer is able to bring a fully functional product offering to a client for demonstration and evaluation purposes.

Distribution Company
By using Virtual Server, Intellinet was able to provide a cost effective and easily manageable solution to provide backup Domain Controllers for each of the customers 8 child domains. Previously, each domain was had only one domain controller. Instead of having to maintain and support 8 different servers, only one server was needed.
In addition, Intellinet has leveraged the power of virtualization for its own benefit. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is the primary platform for development, testing and demonstrating of customer solutions.

To learn more about what Intellinet can do for you, please visit www.intellinet.com, e-mail us at info@intellinet.com or call us at 404.442.8600.

KiZAN Technologies was founded 1991 and was voted Microsoft's first Solution Provider Partner of the Year in 1995.

KiZAN has experience with almost every facet of the virtualization landscape, but is especially well-versed in recreating customer’s production environments in virtual machines to assist in new technology testing and implementation, change-control testing and specialized development scenarios, as well as consolidating existing server workloads into virtual environments. KiZAN is excited to offer and support Microsoft’s virtualization technologies and solutions to help customers fully realize the potential of both existing and future hardware and software purchases.

Customer Evidence:
Our customer had three main issues that were addressed with virtualization:
• Server consolidation
• Server standardization and service provisioning
• Development and staging enviornment hosting for development

We implemented a Microsoft Virtual Server environment with the customer who was already very entrenched in the Microsoft stack. We were able to save the customer license fee money by recommending the free Virtual Server-based virtualization solution. The customer was able to consolidate serveral physical servers back to virtual machines and were provided a standardized 'base' virtualization image to help foster a standardized server configuration and the developers were able to have a new development and staging environment without new hardware appropriation.

Midwave's difference makes a difference - working alongside you and your team helping to truly drive business value. The result? In the changing IT landscape, our teams of expert consultants help our clients see the forest, the trees AND the leaves; applying the right technologies to the right targets at the right time. We will zoom out to provide a broad, all-encompassing view of your business, compliance and infrastructure needs-now and down the road. We've integrated as many as 100 products from 15 different partners on any given solution. And we test and optimize these solutions in our lab before deploying them. A sure sign of our long-term commitment to your success. Our consultants, project managers and partners are second to none. We'll analyze the situation, assemble the right team, research the available products and recommend just the right solution. From off-the-shelf to custom designed solutions, we zoom in with technical expertise to help you make just the right decisions-avoiding the pitfalls that can derail a business or a career. Please contact us to discuss with us your business needs and once we've clarified how technology can best serve your business, we'll collaborate with you to create the system you need

Customer Evidence
By utilizing an industry standard virtualization assessment tool, Midwave was able to develop a migration plan to move 60 physical machines from multiple vendor platforms to a Microsoft Virtual Server-based virtual environment existing of two hosts with one failover host. This was achieved by using Microsoft Clustering services for high availability and disaster recovery. The average utilization peak was 65-percent allowing for expansion and growth. The project also integrated the latest Microsoft 2007 platforms for production, along with Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines for development testing. Overall operational costs resulted in a 72-percent reduction with a ROI realization of less than three years.

Newport Communications is a system integration consulting company that provides leading-edge business and technical solutions to a diverse portfolio of government, and large and medium size commercial clients in France and Europe. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of network, development, IT products and services through our industry-leading commitment to excellence in customer service. Newport Communications diversification of services and expert staff of professionals allows us to offer a full suite of services for all kind of businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.newport-com.com or contact gmurati@newport-com.com

Customer Evidence:
One of Newport Communications’ clients had the challenge of gaining more storage space without increasing costs. They had five Microsoft Virtual Servers hosted on other Microsoft technologies’ such as: Microsoft Windows Server Terminal Services, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server Update Services 3.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, Microsoft Domain Naming System, and Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. With the demand to stock more services while maintaining the same number of servers, the best solution was the virtualization with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 R2.
After evaluating VmWare Server and VmWare Workstation, they’ve decided Microsoft Virtual Server was the best of breed with their wide range of LOB applications. By the way they stored servers at the appropriate controlled room temperature, adding more servers due to their increased services would sky rocket their costs on hardware and IT environment. Not only did hosting machines on virtual servers save them money, but increased productivity and server performance. The virtualization allows them to restart a server and more particularly, a service, without restarting other servers and services. Lastly, they have determined Microsoft Virtual Server has reduced network traffic since it stays inside the server.

NuSoft Solutions provides its customers with experienced consulting across all aspects of technology; Application Development, Intranet/Extranet/Internet Portals, Business Intelligence and Advanced Infrastructure deployments. NuSoft is deploying leading edge Microsoft Virtual Server solutions for clients.
Contact NuSoft Solutions to discuss how they can help with your Microsoft Virtual Server-based virtualization deployments: info@nusoftsolutions.com

Customer Evidence:
Disaster recovery
A global conglomerate client wanted to look into Microsoft Virtual Server and the possibility of moving over some Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory, and plant floor (web based production software) to virtual servers. NuSoft first assisted to setup virtual servers in the client's production test domain to better understand the performance issues that they were mostly concerned about. NuSoft setup ten virtual servers running many of the client's production applications and moved forward with the testing. We found that the performance hit was negligible. Based on the standard dual and quad processor servers the client used, the performance for running virtual servers was a loss of only about 15% with a greater RAM requirement of 2 GB per server. From a disaster recovery view, virtual servers recovered 50% quicker than their present server recovery plan. This was a very successful test for this customer. There are now a number of Microsoft Virtual Servers taking over utility and gateway roles in the client's network.
Server/Desktop Migration Assistance
A tier one automotive supplier client was moving from a mixed Microsoft Active Directory, Novell NetWare and Windows NT 4.0 environment to a completely standardized Active Directory and Windows Server 2003 R2 environment. NuSoft, working with this customer, are doing a 17,000 user 150 site migration worldwide. The following gives brief details as to how NuSoft have utilized Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
1. Lab - ten dual homed physical servers loaded with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and a switched network consisting of three VLANS. Through the use of Virtual Server, as well as the VLANS that were provided to us, NuSoft were able to create a virtualized lab environment which simulated three Windows 2003 Active Directory sites.
2. Domain Controllers – WAN Bandwidth constraints have limited NuSoft from migrating sites to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory. NuSoft have noticed that clients with lower WAN bandwidth would experience slower logon times when authenticating to a remote Domain Controller. Through the use of virtualization software, NuSoft have been able to install a virtual Domain Controller at the sites prior to performing the migration.

Ordina, with more than 5,000 employees and based in The Netherlands, provides expertise and services for Consulting, ICT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing projects. Ordina Infrastructure Solutions, (part of the Ordina group) is one of the leading infrastructure consultancy firms in Holland and is a Microsoft Gold partner with the main focus on Unified Communications, Migrations and Infrastructure Optimization. The approach to the customer is, "Think first and act later." The capabilities and all the advantages of application, desktop and server virtualization techniques are often the solution for a more-agile, flexible, effective and efficient ICT organization. The organizational, process and technical impacts are reported and blueprints, roadmaps and project planning are provided for the implementation teams. The outstanding value of the blueprints and the roadmaps are of interest for future agility of the firm's business in the competitive market.

"Microsoft Virtual Server SP1 and Microsoft's virtualization solutions are some of the key success factors."
-- Marcel van der Schouw, Vice President Microsoft, Consolidation & Connectivity

Ordina Infrastructure Solutions
In the last two years, 80% of our proposals and projects deal with Microsoft Virtual Server for:
• early adoption of server virtualization for development, test and acceptance environments
• lower costs for hardware, management and a more responsive time to market
• implementations of application virtualization solutions with Microsoft Terminal Services in combination with Citrix and/or Softgrid
• server virtualization in the production environments for disaster recovery, business continuity, cost optimization, effective use of hardware and management resources.

To learn more about the advantages of Microsoft Virtual Server for your organization, please contact us at hollandsemeesters@ordina.nl.

Peters & Associates is a Microsoft Gold Partner with competencies in Advanced Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure, Security Solutions, Information Worker, and Licensing Solutions. Peters & Associates, a multi award winning Microsoft partner, was named Microsoft National VAR Partner of the Year for 2005, they have deep experience in virtualization, project management, directory solutions, security, mobile computing, and messaging systems. Peters & Associates delivers scalable infrastructure solutions in a predictable manner with an emphasis on security and reliability.

Customer Evidence:
A professional services firm was moving their offices and wanted to reduce the square footage and power requirements for their new data center. Peters & Associates leveraged Microsoft Virtual Server to reduce the number of physical servers 33 to 18 and reduced the new data center square footage by 33% in the new location. The virtualized servers were running numerous applications such as Microsoft Operations Manager and other proprietary applications such as project tracking and reporting. This reduction which was the direct result of virtualization, is saving the customer 3K annually energy costs as well as approximately 15K in reduced lease expenses.
"Peters & Associates is committed to virtualization and the value it brings to our customers. The Microsoft virtualization strategy coupled with"Microsoft's System Center family of products creates a tremendous opportunity for our customers to improve their bottom line by saving on hardware, energy and other operational costs."

Contact Peters & Associates and ask about their Microsoft Virtual Server solutions.

SyCom Technologies is focused on providing technical expertise and services to improve business communications through the imagination, creation, integration, deployment, management and life-cycle support of multi-platform, multi-vendor networks.

Customer Evidence
Mutual Assurance is a small, regional provider of insurance services based in Richmond, Virginia. SyCom Technologies worked with this local 80-user insurance company to implement Microsoft Virtual Server to address the firm's need to consolidate the number of physical servers and establish more effective contingency planning. SyCom engineers designed a comprehensive project approach to transition the firm from their current environment to a virtual environment utilizing Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.
The firm subsequently was able to reduce their infrastructure from 7 physical servers down to 2 servers running virtual sessions. This has resulted in an approximate 60% reduction in the cost of administration and maintenance without realizing any degradation in application performance. The consolidation now enables the firm's system administrator to focus less on routine maintenance and concentrate on more strategic IT issues.
Upon completion of the server consolidation aspect of this project, SyCom worked with our client to design and implement a virtual business continuity solution. The firm's previous solution required having a number of physical servers located at a remote disaster recovery site. Once a year, the firm spent 40 hours simulating a disaster and testing the effectiveness of backup and recovery. Under this scenario, over half the time was spent patching and bringing servers up-to-date and the firm had a low degree of confidence in the overall solution. Under a virtualized scenario, the testing time was reduced by 78% and the firm now has a highly efficient and reliable means for business continuity.
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Contact SyCom and ask about their Microsoft Virtual Server solutions

Tech OP is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. It provides expertise and services for business continuity and disaster recovery. It is an expert with Virtual Server and all aspects of server virtualization. For critical applications use is made of SANs for local and remote storage and for the streaming of virtual solutions. Please contact Tech Op Ltd to discuss how they can help with your Microsoft Virtual Server-based virtualization deployments.

Customer Evidence:
The client had a legacy Windows NT 4.0 Server running an important business application. As the application was critical for the business, it was necessary to replace the server hardware. Since NT 4.0 was no longer supported it was discovered that drivers were difficult if not impossible to source for new server hardware. Hence, the problem was to move the legacy NT 4.0 server and application to new hardware in keeping with the clients IT hardware policy. A Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 was installed onto one of the client's Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers. The NT 4.0 Server software and legacy application was then loaded onto that Microsoft Virtual Server. Checks were then made to ensure that the application was running correctly. The NT 4.0 Server legacy application is running better than before and the old hardware that it was previously installed on has been replaced. Worries regarding business continuity and disaster recovery had been overcome as the process was repeatable, should the application ever need to be installed on a different hardware platform. No special proprietary tools were required and the application migration went very smoothly. Other solutions including VMware were examined, however it was decided that there were no benefits in installing third party non-Microsoft applications. Business continuity was extremely important and there was a risk in using third party software, such as the effect on Windows and security updates on the third party software.

YSIDE is an Microsoft certified service partner that specializes in delivering infrastructure solutions to enterprise customers in the high tech and finance industry. We specialize in desktop deployment projects and solutions, advanced infrastructure projects and security. YSIDE believes that smart solutions are the key to company success. We realize the customer business potential by using existing or new innovative technology. Our teams are expert in Microsoft technology, implementations and projects. We do not sell software or hardware, we are focused only on the technology and how it can benefit to the customer. Microsoft Virtual Server is one of our most important solutions that we deliver to many of our customers. We are implementing some of the biggest Microsoft virtualization solutions in the world.

Customer Evidence:
Two of our Microsoft Virtual Server projects have won awards including First Prize at IT Awards 2006 and Microsoft Partner Awards 2006. By implementing Microsoft Virtual Server we are saving our customers over 50% of their hard drive storage and reducing the number of their physical servers by almost 30% in their data centers. We are also lowering customers' total costs of ownership by using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to monitor virtual machines. In our projects we have converted hundreds of physical servers to virtual machines and so saving data center space, providing simple duplication for disaster recovery planning solutions and simplified control of branch offices. We have helped clients get more performance from existing hardware and save money by deferring new hardware purchases and avoiding related maintenance expenses. You can read one of our successful case studies here.