LAS VEGAS, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Today at the
sold-out Microsoft Management Summit, Corporate Vice President Brad
Anderson spoke to nearly 5,000 IT professionals about their
opportunity to deliver fast, reliable services with cloud
computing. His keynote speech highlighted how customers around the
world are already using Microsoft System Center 2012( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx ),
available today for evaluation and purchase, to create private
clouds. Anderson also discussed how IT professionals can evolve
their roles with cloud computing to help their businesses be more
competitive.
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"Cloud computing gives IT professionals an opportunity to increase
their strategic value to their businesses while building new
skills," Anderson said. "Microsoft's private cloud solutions help
IT professionals become cloud innovators for their companies,
managing and delivering the applications people need to be
productive across private, hybrid and public clouds."
In addition, Anderson provided a preview of how Microsoft's private
cloud will become even more powerful with Windows Server "8" and
announced that the operating system will officially be named
Windows Server 2012. The new "cloud-optimized OS" is due out later
this year.
Management Makes the Difference for Customers
IT organizations that use System Center 2012 and Windows Server
with Hyper-V for cloud computing are helping their companies move
faster, save money and compete better. For example, EmpireCLS
Worldwide Chauffeured Services, a luxury car service headquartered
in New Jersey, has used a Microsoft private cloud to reduce
datacenter costs by 50 percent amid 30 percent company growth
during the past 18 months. With more than 1,000 employees,
EmpireCLS relies on the Microsoft private cloud to deliver a
reliable reservation system to customers in more than 700 cities
around the world. Using System Center 2012, EmpireCLS also used its
cloud environment to create a new business with its BeTransported
software as a service offering. The application is now in use
broadly within the car service industry.
Similarly, The Walsh Group, a construction firm based in Chicago,
switched to a Microsoft private cloud to automate delivery of
virtualized servers and applications for 5,000 employees. In
addition to business efficiencies, the company has been able to
reduce hardware and energy costs by 20 percent.
"With Microsoft, we are moving beyond virtualization to cloud
computing, so we can automate and manage our IT environment as a
whole," said Patrick Wirtz, manager of Technology Innovation at The
Walsh Group. "It's all about giving our engineers, tradespeople and
software developers the computing resources they need to build
roadways, bridges and high-rises."
In another case, Apartments.com, a national online apartment search
service in Chicago, needed a more dynamic and responsive IT
infrastructure to stay competitive in the market and deliver faster
service to its 6 million site visitors each month. With Microsoft's
private cloud, the company realized 50 percent faster server
provisioning for new services and 75 percent lower licensing
costs.
More From MMS 2012
Anderson published a blog post( https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&ct=1334361153&rver=6.0.5286.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fblogs.technet.com%2Fb%2Fserver-cloud%2Farchive%2F2012%2F04%2F17%2Fthe-evolving-role-of-it-as-cloud-innovator.aspx&lc=1033&id=271612 )
today that further details the opportunities for IT professionals
to accelerate their careers in the era of continuous services and
connected devices. Tomorrow, April 18, he will again take the stage
at MMS and address the "World of Connected Devices." The
keynote(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/default.aspx )
broadcast will start at 8:30 a.m. PDT.
More information about System Center 2012 and Microsoft private
cloud is available here( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx ),
including the live and on-demand keynote broadcasts, links to
evaluation software, and more. The STB News Bytes
blog( https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&ct=1334361267&rver=6.0.5286.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fblogs.technet.com%2Fb%2Fstbnewsbytes%2Farchive%2F2012%2F04%2F12%2Fmicrosoft-management-summit-2012-day-one-news.aspx&lc=1033&id=271612 )
has further details on the news discussed at the event. The
conversation on Twitter can be followed at #MMS2012.
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