Microsoft System Center 2012 delivers robust, comprehensive and cost-effective
management for complex IT environments spanning various Cloud models; Microsoft
SQL Server 2012 provides a cloud-ready information platform to unlock
breakthrough insights for success and innovation
KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) -- Microsoft has taken another step toward
helping Malaysian companies of all sizes transform the way they do business by
making it easier, more flexible and reliable to adopt Cloud Computing with the
release of Microsoft System Center 2012 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012, at
today’s "Power of 2" conference held at the Sime Darby Convention Centre.
Cloud Computing is typically deployed by organizations in four models:
traditional, private, public or a hybrid combination of the two – something that
has become more important to understand for Malaysian organizations, which are
starting to flock to the Cloud for its advantages to scale on demand and achieve
greater productivity. Research done by Forrester Consulting has found that 64
percent of Malaysian companies are either currently using or actively planning
cloud initiatives. In these organizations, services such as
software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) and infrastructure-as-a-service (“IaaS”) can run
across a mix of public cloud, private cloud and on-premise infrastructures all
at once. All of this has created a staggeringly complex environment for IT
departments to cope with. Managing these hybrid environments with existing tools
is leading to increased IT costs and higher staffing requirements.
“In the face of this, Microsoft has committed to provide best-in-class solutions
for Malaysian businesses to harness Cloud Computing with unprecedented
flexibility and scalability. By offering ‘Cloud On Your Terms’, we are enabling
businesses to seamlessly harness the Cloud across private, public and hybrid
models, with single-pane IT management using System Center 2012 and fluid
movement of data across all platforms using SQL Server 2012,” explained Danny
Ong, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer, Microsoft Malaysia.
He continued, “Through Microsoft System Center 2012 we are delivering a robust,
comprehensive and cost-effective management tool that lets businesses more
easily and effectively manage their entire IT environment from on-premise and to
the cloud. Meanwhile, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 provides a cloud-ready
information platform that helps companies in Malaysia unlock breakthrough
insights across the company as well quickly build solutions and extend data from
server to private or public cloud, driving business success and innovation.”
“Launching these two solutions today is a continuation of our commitment to
Malaysian businesses to improve their efficiencies and returns on IT investment.
In fact, only Microsoft has the experience, depth and breadth to assist Asian
companies—from SMBs to large enterprises – in their journey to the cloud,” said
Ong.
System Center 2012
With Microsoft System Center 2012, Malaysian businesses have access to the only
unified infrastructure management platform that undergirds public, private or
hybrid cloud models for end-to-end visibility of their entire IT infrastructure;
from hardware component of bare-metal servers right through to its software
components like applications, and all the layers in between. System Center 2012
delivers improvements in terms of application performance management via its
deep application monitoring capabilities, seamless workflow automation via its
Orchestrator solution, state-of-the-art self-serve capabilities, and
significantly enhanced virtualization management and automation.
“The seamless management of complex IT infrastructures has become an important
business issue largely due to the Consumerization of IT trend – how does a
company maintain security and stability of a business IT environment as senior
management starts bringing in their own smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks or
other popular consumer devices for use in the office, as an example? System
Centre 2012 is built from the ground up to enable the necessary process
automation, configuration and management across platforms and environments;
supporting Windows Server Hyper-V, VMWare vSphere, and Citrix XenServer and
working with Windows Server, Sun Solaris, various Linux and Unix distributions,
as well as most popular smartphone and tablet operating systems. This enables
the IT team to secure and control non-traditional IT devices while still
allowing employees to use the devices that they want,” explains Ong.
Combining a common management experience across hybrid environments as well as a
self-service model that allows users to customize and request the services they
need and greater levels of automation, System Center 2012 gives businesses of
all sizes the means to automate and manage their IT environment as a whole, to
develop cost-effective cloud infrastructures and to deploy predictable
applications.
Furthermore, System Center 2012 delivers its comprehensive suite of cloud
administration capabilities at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.
Compared to competing solutions savings with System Center 2012 only gets larger
as businesses adopt more extensive cloud solutions because its licensing covers
unlimited virtual machines so companies can continually increase its VM density
without additional licensing costs for virtualizing infrastructure and
applications. Compared to other competing solutions, this can generate up to
sixteen times the cost savings over three years compared to comparable competing
solutions.
SQL Server 2012
In addition to adopting cloud computing for flexibility and economies, Malaysian
businesses are also looking at the cloud to help them manage the huge explosion
of data that is happening across every level of their organizations. Gartner
reports that the volume of information worldwide will grow by 59 percent in 2012
with most of that data being unstructured.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform that will allow
Malaysian businesses to harness their data with built-in Business Intelligence
capabilities through self-service analytics tools, interactive data exploration
and visualizations backed by credible, consistent data and highly scalable data
warehousing solutions. Organizations will be able to quickly unlock breakthrough
insights within billions of rows of data with familiar tools like PowerPivot
built on Excel and Power View for easily understood interactive data
visualizations that allow them to quickly make well informed business decisions.
Research by Forrester Consulting has found that SQL Server 2012 delivers an ROI
of up to 189% with a 1 year payback period.
“Growing numbers of Malaysian companies are choosing SQL Server to manage their
information. In the first 3 quarters of FY2012, we have already seen a
double-digit percent year-on-year growth in End Customer purchase of SQL Server.
Globally, SQL Server is the fastest growing database today and represents 45
percent of market share in units and 200 percent of Microsoft''s BI revenue
growth,” said Ong.
SQL Server 2012 meets industry requirements for high availability with the new
SQL Server AlwaysOn for mission critical availability. Meanwhile common tools,
like Management Studio and SQL Server Data Tools, give organizations built-in
support for complex data types, greater interoperability with varied platforms
and allow them to quickly create and scale innovative hybrid cloud solutions
across public cloud, private cloud and on-premise infrastructures while
connection points from SQL Server 2012 make it easy to take advantage of Windows
Azure Platform benefits.
Notably, in Malaysia it has been deployed by e-business company IFCA-MSC Berhad,
whose CEO Leong Nyu Kuan was on hand to advocate SQL Server 2012, saying it “has
tremendous new functionalities–such as features for high availability and
disaster recovery, increased performance and improved business intelligence
capabilities–which IFCA-MSC Berhad is taking advantage of without having to
change its enterprise applications; and all these benefits coupled with the
added confidence of greater security.”
To find out more about Microsoft System Center 2012, visit
www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/
To learn more about Microsoft SQL Server 2012, visit www.microsoft.com/sql/
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (www.microsoft.com/malaysia) is a subsidiary of
Microsoft Corporation and was incorporated on July 8, 1992.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and
Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a
wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great
software – any time, any place and on any device.
SOURCE: Microsoft Malaysia
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