More Pressure on IT than ever Technology Change

More Pressure on IT than ever Technology Change Regulatory Compliance Competition Security Cost Reduction Keep Business Up & Running Customer Connection End User Productivity Business Results & New Value

Virtualization Market Computerworld “Although virtualization has been the buzz among technology providers, only 6% of enterprises have actually deployed virtualization on their networks, said Levine, citing a TWP Research report. That makes the other 94% a wideopen market. ” The Rise of the Virtual Machine and the Real Impact It Will Have “We calculate that roughly 6% of new servers sold last year were virtualized and project that 7% of those sold this year will be virtualized and believe that less than 4% of the X 86 server installed base has been virtualized to date. Pat Gelsinger, Intel VP Sept. 2007 “Only 5% of servers are virtualized. ”

Why is Virtualization <10%? Cost Complexity/Interoperability Management Virtual Sprawl Single Point of Failure Integration with Physical Software Licensing Hardware Performance Political Security Concerns

Virtualization 2010 Information Week Oct. 2007 “The [virtualization field] is nowhere near saturated. IDC estimates that only 17% of the worldwide server market will be virtualized by 2010, up from 5% in 2005. ”

Dependencies Between Layers Create Management Complexity Data, User settings Folder Redirection Applications Application Virtualization; Terminal Services OS WIM (Windows Image Management) Hardware

Microsoft Virtualization Solutions desktop assets – both virtual and physical – are managed from a single platform A comprehensive set of virtualization products, from the data center to Profile Virtualization Document Redirection Offline files Server/Desktop Virtualization Presentation Virtualization Centralized Desktop Virtualization Application Virtualization (Formerly Soft. Grid)

System Center Backup Disaster Recovery Hardware Provisioning Virtual Workload Provisioning OS / Software Performance Deploy, and Health Patching and Monitoring State Mgmt

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