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The right server for the right job.
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Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel-developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.
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Over time, the Excel client has become a very popular platform for developing applications. With the Excel Services functionality in Office 12, companies will be able to run these same worksheets on the server.
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We've eliminated a whole major attack vector with the worst kind of virus that exists.
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Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.
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The monolithic nature of IIS which has been a total pain for people to build applications has been replaced, ... molded on the kind of modularity Apache is known for.
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Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.
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Today's announcement is yet another milestone in our collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address our customers' most critical business application needs. EMC and Microsoft are enhancing the delivery of joint solutions by our skilled service professionals, and this commitment will enable customers to optimize their infrastructure with high-performance servers and applications.
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It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.
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We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for.
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The move away from tape as a primary means of restoring data, and using tape for archiving purposes, we think is going to become very broad in the industry.
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There's no overlap between Visio and Microsoft products.
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SDN is a major shift in the networking industry. At Juniper, we think the impact of SDN will be much broader than others have suggested. It will redefine networking and create new winners and losers. We're embracing SDN with clearly defined principles, a four-step roadmap to help customers adopt SDN within their business, and the networking industry's first comprehensive software-centric business model. We're incredibly excited about the value that SDN will deliver to our customers and are committed to leading the industry through this transition.
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The fact that DPM works well with other Microsoft products that customers commonly use is a big differentiator.
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We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.
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We have seen customers reduce 48 hour backup windows down to 10 minutes with DPM, ... With DPM, customers never have to do a full backup from the production server again; they only have to do incremental backups, which are much more efficient.
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What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.
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That really improves security and reduces management cost.
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After months of testing, we're ready to release R2. We're bringing the code out of the development labs and giving it to you.
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DPM is all about enabling simpler storage management and reducing the amount of manual labor that customers must dedicate to backup and recovery.
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We're entering a market where it's often the case where you are working with and competing with established companies. We can provide a much better cost equation in term of restoring data, but that does not obsolete products for data archiving purposes.
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Windows has gone from being a laggard in management to a leader. System Center is at the center, and Windows is key, but the learning we share together as people that drives us forward.
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This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.
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This is an important release of the Windows server, but to Microsoft, it's just one piece of the puzzle. We need hardware partners, ISVs, solution providers and system integrators that allow you to build systems that run your businesses.