1. Manuel Maina Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Italia Milano, 11 febbraio 2010

2. Windows Server 2008 R2: The Complete Picture Datacenter Challenges and Goals Key Product Highlights Integration: The Microsoft Advantage Summary

4. Energy Costs Lower Budgets More Regulation IT Agility Scalability Server Sprawl R2 Power Management Power & Consolidation Management & reporting Better together & Familiar and Supported Advanced Hardware Support Hyper-V

5. Key Product Highlights

6. SITUATION TODAY Difficult management of high-density VM sites Limited hardware resources per VMs Lack of unified virtualization architecture Limited VM client support Difficult end-to-end management With virtualization, we will save about 50 percent of our annual energy budget for cooling and electricity. Virtualization saves us on hardware and labor. We also save on software licensing fees. And we can save money by creating and managing virtual test environments for some applications with our development group. - LukOil Oil Company

7. Feature Overview Processor Power Management (PPM) Core Parking Centralized Storage Reduction in Power & Cooling costs (+6%) Feature Overview Processor Power Management (PPM) Core Parking Centralized Storage Reduction in Power & Cooling costs (+6%) Increase productivity and reduce footprint Lead by example Built in energy efficiency Resource optimization Guidance & education Centralize control Analyze operations Monitor goals REDUCE REDUCE MANAGE MANAGE RETHINK RETHINK Over time, however, the company expects to benefit from reduced power consumption and costs. “Because of our size, we can realize significant gains by managing power more efficiently,” says Buckingham. “The electricity billing in our data centers is based on metered power, and we can reduce our monthly bills if we control power consumption with Windows Server 2008 R2.” - MySpace.com Over time, however, the company expects to benefit from reduced power consumption and costs. “Because of our size, we can realize significant gains by managing power more efficiently,” says Buckingham. “The electricity billing in our data centers is based on metered power, and we can reduce our monthly bills if we control power consumption with Windows Server 2008 R2.” - MySpace.com

8. Employee productivity has improved so much that he was able to defer hiring additional sales and management personnel this year. “The $120,000 to $150,000 a year it would cost to fund these positions now goes straight to our bottom line or gets distributed to current employees to help preclude layoffs in the future. - Convergent Computing

9. Using Windows Server 2008 R2, we accomplished a whole year’s worth of IT projects in the first quarter of 2009—even in this tight economy…We couldn’t be more pleased. - Convergent Computing Using Windows Server 2008 R2, we accomplished a whole year’s worth of IT projects in the first quarter of 2009—even in this tight economy…We couldn’t be more pleased. - Convergent Computing

10. Taking advantage of the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, we can spend $20,000 rather than $50,000 per year on bandwidth by postponing our expansion schedule. - Sporton International Taking advantage of the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, we can spend $20,000 rather than $50,000 per year on bandwidth by postponing our expansion schedule. - Sporton International

11. VirtualDesktopBranchIdentity SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT BETTER TOGETHER SYNERGY SITUATION TODAY Disparate systems & technologies paralyze internal innovation Multiple management tools and skill sets cement awkward processes Datacenters largely static hardware-heavy resources

12. With DirectAccess, CCO is saving about $40,000 a year by eliminating its VPN and all its associated hardware, software, licensing, and carrier charges - Convergent Computing

13. WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 SITUATION TODAY Application and data access over WAN is slow in branch offices Slow connections hurt user productivity Improving network performance is expensive and difficult to implement Caches content downloaded from file and Web servers Users in the branch can quickly open files stored in the cache Frees up network bandwidth for other uses Using the BranchCache™ features in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows 7, CCO has simplified remote connection to its network and speed the downloading of important files. It has cut costs by eliminating its virtual private network and has seen a 43 percent savings in wide area network (WAN) bandwidth. - Convergent Computing

15. Virtualization web site http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/d efault.aspx Virtualize Business Critical Apps http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/s olution-business-apps.aspx Case Study http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/c ase-studies-featured.aspx

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