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NuStar Energy: IT for growth

Yesterday the marketing team published a case study about NuStar Energy , a crude-oil transportation and storage company that has grown rapidly through acquisitions and recently joined the Fortune 500. NuStar relies on Windows Server, System Center and

Hyper-V in WS08 R2 Release Candidate: Bringing More to the Table

Here we are at the RC milestone of Windows Server 2008 R2 , which usually indicates that we've hit the home stretch and we're marching straight ahead to RTM. Generally that's nothing new, but get set to smile, because this time we're not just marching

System Center VMM 2008 R2 beta now available

The beta is now available to manage WS08 R2 Hyper-V and MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Check out RakeshM's blog post. Rakesh is the principal group program manager for SCVMM, and can answer any questions you might have that he doesn't address. If you're looking for brevity, see Larry's post over at the System Center team blog. You can download the beta of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 from the Microsoft Connect site. On a related note, join Microsoft's sr. technical product manager, Edwin Yuen, in a live web chat on March 31, 8am-noon PST [11am-3pm EST]. Edwin will answer your questions about Hyper-V, SCVMM, App-V, MED-V and other items. See more here. A reminder also that the Microsoft Management Summit is April 27 - May 1 in Las Vegas. Patrick

Customers Save Big $$ with Windows Server Hyper-V

Looks like many of you are saving big money with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. And today we announced that, on average, it's $470,000 per customer per year. Not bad at all and very gratifying to see. Here's just one example provided today: Saxo Bank had an average physical server utilization of just 20 percent and was deploying nearly 200 new servers per year before using server virtualization. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V allowed the bank to reduce the number of servers needed by 36 percent and realize savings equivalent to $1 million (U.S.), because of lower server hardware costs and associated reductions in space, power and cooling costs Besides the words and all, another interesting part were the videos seen at the site. You can see/hear from Saxo Bank, Banverket, Rand Morimoto (who wrote a book on Hyper-V), and a video featuring Santa Barbara Web Hosting and Microsoft's Bob Muglia.

TechEd EMEA: Terminal Services renamed Remote Desktop Services

Hi, Manlio Vecchiet here. I'm director of product management on the Windows Server marketing team, focused on Windows Server networking, terminal services and VDI. I'm in Barcelona right now attending Microsoft TechEd EMEA conference. Whether you are one of the many IT Pros that have successfully deployed Terminal Services over the past decade, or whether your company is considering virtualization technologies to implement a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or even if you are new to the concept of a centralized, remote desktop - this will matter to you. Today we are introducing Windows Server 2008 Remote Desktop Services – the next generation of server tools and platform that allow you to accelerate and extend centralized desktop and application deployments to any device. So, what exactly is ‘Remote Desktop Services’?

Virtualization News from the Microsoft Management Summit

Helping businesses address the growing complexity of managing their IT environments, today at Microsoft Management Summit 2008 we announced the public beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly referred to as code name “Virtual
 
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