80% 20%MAINTENANCE NEW INNOVATION

• Protect Information, Protect Information, Control AccessControl Access

• Manage Complexity,Manage Complexity,Achieve AgilityAchieve Agility

• Advance the BusinessAdvance the Businesswith IT Solutionswith IT Solutions

• Amplify the ImpactAmplify the Impactof Your Peopleof Your People

BASICBASICIT is a IT is a

cost centrecost centre

STANDARDISESTANDARDISEDD

IT is an IT is an efficient efficient

cost centrecost centre

RATIONALISEDRATIONALISEDIT is a business IT is a business

enablerenabler

DYNAMICDYNAMICIT is a IT is a

strategic strategic assetasset

Move from physical to logicalManaged by models & policyState-aware, self-healingAvailable, secure and real-time

Federated, composite, service-basedConnected & user-focused experiencesOn-premise, off-premise, hostedEfficient Dev-to-IT operations

BETTER BETTER PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE

ENHANCEDENHANCEDSECURITYSECURITY

EASIEREASIERDEPLOYMENTDEPLOYMENT

with Service Pack 1

Secure & Trusted Platform

Virtualisation

BusinessIntelligen

ce

Web And Developer

Productivity

NZ’s best known websiteFirst tested Windows Server 2008 in August 2007 and plan on full production deployment of web servers and listing\search servers in March 2008. Currently using Visual Studio 2008 for development Testing SQL Server 08 for backend database performance -specifically Filestream, Transparent data encryption and extensible key management.Tighter integration between IIS7 and .NET allows even richer functionality into applicationsFast time to deploy Windows Server 2008 and have seen a reduced CPU load on servers which will extend Hardware lifecycle

Trade MeTrade MeTrade MeTrade Me

Up to 60% reduction in patching through Server Core

Up to 10% power savings on identical workloads

ISV& Partner Momentum

• Over 80 Certified apps today• Over 1000 Global partners

ready

Continued security focus*

• Record performance on TPC-E** & SAP-SD*** benchmarks

A leading IDE provider (48%)

+

.NET LEADERSHIPH2 FY07

+ Forrester “IDE Usage Trends”, Jeffrey S. Hammond February 12, 2008

*NIST National Vulnerability Database

** Results as of 2/27/08.  NEC Express5800/1320Xf (32 SMP), 1126 tpsE, 2771 $/tpsE, available 8/30/08.  Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (www.tpc.org).   *** Highest performance on 4-socket Industry Standard Servers.  Certification Number xxxxxxx: SAP SD standard SAP ERP 6.0 (2005)  application benchmark in 3-Tier configuration certified on 02/26/08 For more details, see http://www.sap.com/benchmark

Tonkin & Taylor provides engineering, design, and consulting services. The organization needed to better manage security for its remote data centres. It also needed to improve the time-consuming file replication and backup process at these remote sitesTonkin & Taylor deployed the Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise operating system in October 2007, to simplify remote administration and improve file management.

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Tonkin & Tonkin & TaylorTaylor

“Virtualisation without good management is more dangerous than not usingvirtualisation in the first place.”

– TOM BITTMAN, GARTNER VP & ANALYST, 9 MAY, 2007

Virtualisation Will Drive Major Change in IT Infrastructure and Operations in the Next Three Years, Tom Bittman, May 8, 2007

One of NZ’s largest IT infrastructure service providers.Provides a catalogue of services based around its Datacentre operation.Holds capacity for 40,000+ virtual servers in a single centreFirst true Type-R Datacentre in NZ

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Nathan MercerIT Professional Advisor

Kiwibank is the fastest growing bank in the NZ market with 1 in 8 of all New Zealanders now being customersVisual Studio and SQL Server were used to extended an International Banking Application into a smart client.Project provided a single interface to administer back office functionality across a range of systems in a manner that can be easily extended as new products and services are introduced in the bank. The Smart Client pattern provided a structured approach to development and Windows Workflow Foundation to manage human workflow and service interaction.

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Nigel ParkerWeb Development Advisor

ORGANISATIONAORGANISATIONALL

PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE

ANALYSISANALYSIS & &

TEAMWORKTEAMWORK

PERSONALPERSONALPRODUCTIVITYPRODUCTIVITY

Scott AllenSolution Specialist – Business Intelligence

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