Power through the downturn

Help customers cut costs with the latest virtualisation technologies

Virtualisation is one of the fastest growing IT investment areas today. In fact over the next five years, virtualisation provides one of the largest – if not the largest – growth opportunities for Microsoft.

To date, many mid-market customers have restrained from adopting virtualisation, viewing it as too expensive. However, Windows Server® 2008 with in-built Hyper-V™ gives you a significant opportunity to expand into this market.

Featuring everything customers’ need to take advantage of virtualization, Windows Server® 2008 makes server virtualisation easy and cost effective; enabling multiple operating system to run on a single physical machine. This allows customers to consolidate workloads, resulting in fewer physical machines; reducing hardware, energy, and management costs.

Windows Server® 2008 with in-built Hyper-V™ provides end-to end virtualisation and management, enabling your customers to benefit from:

• Easy deployment
• Simplified management tasks
• Integrated task management
• Support for existing virtualisation solutions
• Reliable virtualisation
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Minimised scheduled and unscheduled downtime
• A protect infrastructure
• No need to monitor several applications
• Integrated physical and virtual management

Five reasons your customers get a better deal with Microsoft virtualisation 1. Integrated management for physical and virtual machines 2. Significantly lower total cost of ownership 3. A non-disruptive transition to the new virtual infrastructure 4. Highly-secure in-built Hyper-V 5. End-to-end support and easy troubleshooting