The Information Platform Vision

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Customer Insights & Tech Trends

Compliance &Risk

Management

Right InformationAt the Right Time

IT Agility andCost Efficiency

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS CONSTANTLY GROWING

Globalization

Virtualization Hardware Innovation

Cloud Services

GAME CHANGERS DRIVING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Digitally Born Data

Information Platform Vision

Mission Critical Platform

CloudDesktop & Mobile Server & Datacenter

Empowered IT Pervasive Insight

Dynamic Development

SCALE EFFICIENTLY ACCORDING TO DEMAND

Addressing Today’s Customer Needs

Optimize performance, scale-up individual servers and scale-out very large data warehouses and gain real time insights from high performance, event based applications.

REDUCE RISK, GAIN AGILITY

Improve IT’s ability to respond to business changes by enabling centralized management, policy-based control and rapid configuration and deployment.

RESPOND QUICKLY TO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Make better, more timely decisions by empowering end users to access, integrate, analyze and share information using Microsoft Office tools they are already familiar with.

Scalable relational database platform

Consistent, familiar model & tools

Self-managed, highly available cloud services

MPP support for 10s to 100s TB DW

Highly scalable appliances

Seamless integration with Microsoft BI

A Comprehensive Platform

Managed Self-Service BI

Multi-server management

Virtualization & Live Migration

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