| How do you accelerate virtualization for your | | | | departments maximize cost savings and improve |
| enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to | | | | business continuity. Our solutions address both |
| the next level? WAN optimization is a class of | | | | physical and virtual infrastructure, and can be easily |
| technology that has rapidly been adopted across | | | | managed through a single console. |
| enterprises in order to address the challenges of | | | | A Familiar Platform |
| bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. In | | | | Microsoft virtualization solutions are based on familiar |
| this paper, we examine the trends toward server | | | | Windows interfaces and work with well-known |
| consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN | | | | Windows-based technologies. And because the |
| optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve | | | | solutions are Windows-based, they are supported by |
| the key challenges of application performance and | | | | a broad network of experienced partners who can |
| information availability within these environments. | | | | rapidly respond to your business needs. |
| Virtualization and infrastructure consolidation can offer | | | | Savings and Value |
| significant benefits for both IT and business | | | | With Hyper-V in Windows Server & system |
| operations. The combination of WAN optimization | | | | center, virtualizing your enterprise with Microsoft can |
| solutions along with virtualization offers CIOs the | | | | cost less than competitive products and help you |
| unique opportunity to strategically enable their IT | | | | maximize the return on your virtualization investment. |
| operations, and improve service delivery while saving | | | | Seamless Physical and Virtual Management |
| costs at the same time. IT managers would be well | | | | Microsoft virtualization technologies enable you to |
| served to consider both technologies as key | | | | optimize your assets, centrally managing all of your |
| components of the IT infrastructure going forward. | | | | physical and virtual resources across multiple |
| From data center to desktop, Microsoft Virtualization | | | | hypervisors down to the application level. |
| delivers. At Microsoft, virtualization means helping IT | | | | |