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whitepaper College System to Cut Deployment Costs for Disaster Recovery Site by Nearly 80 Percent2009-09-01 Microsoft
  campuses and more than 100,000 students that depend on online access. To better serve them, KCTCS wanted a more flexible IT infrastructure and improved stability, but it also needed an affordable solution. KCTCS is meeting these goals by implementing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtualization technology. By deploying virtual servers, KCTCS will increase availability and cut server deployment time from hours to minutes. New management capabilities will ease administration, and tools such as Windows PowerShell 2.0 will streamline user-account provisioning and other routine tasks. Also, by using Hyper-V, KCTCS estimates that it will cut deployment costs for its virtual disaster recovery site by nearly 80 percent.

Tags: Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Business Value of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Live Migration2009-08-17 Microsoft
  Today's IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage and support expanding computer resources while reducing costs. Server virtualization has become a broadly accepted method to meet these requirements. By converting under-utilized physical servers into virtual machines that run on a single physical server, organizations can reduce space, power and hardware costs in the data center. Read the whitepaper to see how Windows Server 2008 R2 is making this process seamless.

Tags: Desktop Client OS, Server Platforms - OS, Server Platforms - OS, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Marketing Firm Optimizes Infrastructure to Cut IT Costs, Boost Uptime2009-08-07 Microsoft
  R.L. Polk is one of the largest consumer marketing firms in the United States and a leading provider of automotive marketing information. To keep up with annual business growth of 30 percent and remain focused on delivering new data services, Polk needed to reduce the time spent deploying and managing servers. Polk deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology to virtualize servers and Microsoft System Center data center solutions to reduce the work of monitoring, configuring, deploying, and backing up both physical and virtual servers. By optimizing its core data center infrastructure, Polk has reduced its IT staff while growing data center capacity 30 percent annually. It has also improved application availability, reduced hardware costs by U.S.$300,000, and achieved faster time-to-market of new services by speeding server deployment.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper School Board Virtualizes Servers, Boosts IT Productivity, and Saves $30,000 in First Year2009-08-03 Microsoft
  Based in Brick, New Jersey, the Brick Township Board of Education administers a school district for students from kindergarten through grade 12. To maximize computing services for 2,000 employees while minimizing costs, the IT department turned to server virtualization, but its VMware solution couldn't virtualize the district's many transactional systems that use Microsoft SQL Server. Instead of upgrading its VMware solution, the board saved approximately U.S.$25,000 by migrating to Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology. Now it can virtualize its transactional systems and eliminate more than 90 percent of its physical servers. The IT staff also deployed Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to optimize the performance of both physical and virtual servers, boosting IT staff productivity and saving days on server provisioning and routine administrative tasks.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Parking Solution Company Reduces Hardware Costs by $160,000 With Virtual Servers2009-08-01 Microsoft
  T2 Systems offers a unified, hosted solution for parking management - a unique offering for the industry. As demand for its solution grew, the company had to add physical servers to its environment - a costly, time-consuming process. T2 implemented Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology and virtual servers, eliminating 32 physical servers. As a result, it reduced server and licensing costs, improved scalability, and enhanced customer service.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Managing Windows Server 2008 R2: Executive Overview2009-08-01 Microsoft
  Windows Server 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. This white paper begins with a brief discussion of today's IT management challenges. It highlights many new and improved tools that can help ease management burdens through centralization of IT tasks and enable IT staff to work more efficiently. It introduces deployment resources that can help ensure that one can respond quickly to changing needs. It covers extensive monitoring capabilities and embedded best-practices guidance that can help IT professionals to be proactive in identifying and resolving problems that could otherwise lead to increased costs.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper Managing Windows Server 2008 R22009-08-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. This white paper begins with a brief discussion of today's IT management challenges. It discusses many new and improved management consoles that help centralize management tasks and enable IT pros work more efficiently. It introduces Windows Deployment Services and Windows Server Migration Guides, which can help ensure that organizations can respond quickly to their changing IT infrastructure needs. It covers the Best Practices Analyzer and Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor which can help identify and resolve problems resulting from configuration changes. And it introduces Windows PowerShell which can help standardize and automate all management processes.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R22009-08-01 Microsoft
  By enabling applications built on Windows PowerShell to manage anything and everything, be it a server, client, distributed system, application, service, hardware, or other operating system, Windows PowerShell was designed to reduce the cost and effort required to manage IT infrastructure. The intuitive interface, rich built-in help, and extensive online resources make Windows PowerShell helps to maximize IT investment, lower the barriers to entry into management automation, and reduce the time required to see results. In addition, Windows PowerShell can help standardize and automate all management processes, improving administrator efficiency and minimizing human error.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper Dell Tech Center: Windows Server Virtualization Hyper-V2009-08-01 Dell
  Use the Dell Technology Center to interact with other IT professionals.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: How Windows Server 2008 R2 Affects Your IT Infrastructure (Level 300)2009-07-30 Microsoft
  The presenter of this webcast talks about some of the technologies that will make a real difference to IT professionals. The presenter will cover many new features included in Windows Server 2008 R2 that improve the cost of ownership. The presenter will take a closer look at specific technologies that will improve Administration, Data Center, and Branch office deployments.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS