Importance to Academic Institutions

Get more out of server hardware Improve service reliability Reduce operating expenses Control workstation costs Introduce better access to applications/data Without sacrificing security

Integrated approach across all solutions rather than a single set of product offerings. Hyper-V is a component of Windows Virtualization is first-class across Server Management Suite One size does not fit all Private/public cloud is reality today Features for today’s requirements. Extensibility for tomorrow’s challenges. Flexibility in choosing hardware Academic Pricing Simplified licensing models for virtualization “Site” licenses also available

PresentationVirtualization User State Virtualization ApplicationVirtualization DesktopVirtualization ServerVirtualization “Having one vendor for the hypervisor, operating system, and much of our application software was very appealing to us from a support and cost perspective.” Bert Van Pottelberghe, Sales Director, Hostbasket “Having one vendor for the hypervisor, operating system, and much of our application software was very appealing to us from a support and cost perspective.” Bert Van Pottelberghe, Sales Director, Hostbasket Document redirection Offline files

A Microsoft First: Submission of GPLv2 Open-Source Code to the Linux Kernel Maintainers – July 21, 2009 “For IT shops seeking to reduce server sprawl, opportunities to consolidate both Windows and Linux applications on single hosts, while minimizing performance degradation, become more feasible. The enlightenment driver code and the emerging announcement of Hyper-V Live Migration in October 2009 will sway more users in hybrid environments to consider Windows as a virtualization strategy vis a vis VMware or Linux, helping Microsoft to advance its virtualization agenda.”

Microsoft provides a comprehensive, end-to-end toolset for creating, provisioning, managing, and securing both the virtual infrastructure and the physical infrastructure, including the management of third-party virtualization solutions. VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM DataCenter Hypervisor / High Availability Unlimited Windows Server VM Instances SMSD Monitoring, Operations, Reporting Deployment, Inventory, Updates, Configuration Provisioning, Automation, Self-Service Centralized Backup/Recovery

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