REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 17, 2012 — In an online broadcast
today from Microsoft Corp. headquarters, Satya Nadella, president of
Microsoft Server and Tools Business, laid out how Microsoft’s private
cloud solution will help businesses move faster, save money and better
compete in 2012. He highlighted how companies, such as webcast
participants Lufthansa Systems, T. Rowe Price and Unilever, can use
Microsoft System Center 2012 to build and operate private clouds for the
delivery of business applications across both private and public cloud
platforms. System Center 2012 is available today in a Release Candidate
as a single, integrated private cloud management solution for the first
time.
“IT leaders tell me that private cloud
computing promises to help them focus on innovation over maintenance, to
streamline costs and to respond to the need for IT speed,” Nadella
said. “We are delivering on that promise today. With System Center 2012,
customers can move beyond the industry hype and speculation, and
progress into the here and now of private cloud.”
All Together Now: Private Cloud Simplicity and Best Economics
New
advances in System Center 2012 demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to
easing the acquisition, deployment and economics of private cloud
computing.
“A private cloud is our answer to
corralling our server infrastructure into a single entity we can use to
more rapidly deliver services that really matter to our business,” said
Peter Daniels, vice president of IT at T. Rowe Price. “System Center
2012 is truly a game changer.”
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System Center 2012 integrates
eight separate component products into one unified solution,
streamlining installation and reducing the time it takes to deploy from
days down to hours. The number of product versions has also been
simplified, so customers will be able to choose between the Standard and
Datacenter editions of the product, based on their virtualization
requirements. And because System Center 2012 Datacenter edition
licensing covers unlimited virtual machines, customers can continually
grow their private clouds without additional licensing costs for
virtualizing their infrastructure and applications.
The Microsoft Private Cloud: Built for the Future. Ready Now
Lufthansa Systems and Unilever are also relying on System Center 2012 and the Microsoft private cloud.
“We
are making the move to cloud computing across our company, and after
looking at our options, Microsoft offers the right solutions for us,”
said Holger Berndt, head of Microsoft Servers at Lufthansa Systems.
“With the integrated approach and technology, we can use the people and
skills we have in place now to build the private cloud services we need
to meet the complex IT requirements of our customers. Microsoft brings
it all together, including the clear path to public cloud on Windows
Azure.”
“Our private cloud will help us meet
our goal of doubling Unilever’s business without increasing our
environmental footprint,” said Mike Royle, enterprise services IT
director at Unilever. “Working with Avanade, we are betting on System
Center 2012 as the management platform to extend our investments in
virtualization toward private cloud, to automate processes, and to
ensure the reliability of our infrastructure and application services.”
More information is available at the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform
website, including the on-demand broadcast, links to the Microsoft
private cloud evaluation software and more. The conversation on Twitter
can be followed at #MSFTprivatecloud.
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