Resource utilization. It's an increasingly important topic, and if your business is constrained by poor server and storage utilization, it's likely you're over-investing in hardware and wasting space and power, not to mention propagating operational inefficiencies. These in turn increase costs and lead to negative environmental impacts.
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help consolidate your datacenter, thus reducing your costs and improving agility. We combine excellent value in server virtualization--based on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V--with the physical and virtual management capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Microsoft works with a wide range of storage infrastructure partners to deliver breakthrough datacenter cost savings through the combination of server and storage consolidation. In short, our solutions are designed to help you: