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Microsoft Philippines is set to launch its new flagship server and
application development products with added and enhanced security
features on April 10 at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City.
In a recent Microsoft Wave Media Bootcamp held
in Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Olongapo City, Microsoft gave the media
a preview of its latest portfolio of applications, Windows Server
2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
Nicky Eala, business group director for server
and tools, Microsoft Philippines, said the new line-up of products
have built-in enhanced capabilities designed to address the needs of
enterprises and developers.
“Nowadays, people spend 80 percent of their IT
budget on maintenance and 20 percent of that on developing new
innovations or new businesses and that is what we want to change,”
Eala said.
Among other challenges are securing assets,
managing systems, reducing costs, increasing productivity of people
and developing new applications, according to Eala.
The next-generation platforms
To address these concerns, Microsoft has focused
on the four areas of IT, namely; security, virtualization, Web
productivity and business intelligence with the release of the three
products.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the
next-generation Windows Server operating system, has a
virtualization capability. This feature is Microsoft’s new
hypervisor-based virtualization technology: a thin software layer
between the hardware and Windows Server 2008 operating system. Thus,
it allows multiple operating systems to run, unmodified, on a host
computer at the same time, according to Microsoft.
Among other new technology to the latest
flagship server operating system are the NAP or Network Access
Protection, which provides a new framework that allows IT
administrators to establish health requirements for the network;
Windows PowerShell, new command-line shell and scripting language
designed to increase IT professionals’ productivity; Internet
Information Services (IIS) 7.0, provides security and extensible
platform for efficiently managing and reliably hosting Web
applications and services.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will provide a
trusted, productive, and an end-to-end business intelligence
platform that helps the user to run his most mission-critical
applications.
According to Liezel Milan, Microsoft Application
Platform product manager, SQL Server 2008 is more than a database
for it delivers new services, such as reporting, analysis and
integration.
On the other hand, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
enables developers to rapidly create connected applications that
deliver the highest quality and rich user experiences. Visual
designers for faster development with the .NET Framework 3.5,
substantial improvements to Web development tools and language
enhancements are some of the enhancements done on the product.
According to Microsoft, with Visual Studio 2008, organizations will
be having a smooth experience to capture and analyze information to
help them make effective business decisions.
-- Cris-Ann G. Odronia
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