At the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany, Fujitsu Siemens Computers presented its range of PRIMERGY servers, ideally positioned to support the new products.
Windows Server 2008 technologies enable companies to better utilize server resources, enabling savings on operational as well as energy costs. According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, an advantage of the upcoming virtual server environment is that IT departments gain flexibility because services and applications can be moved on the fly between physical host servers, thereby improving business agility.
“Microsoft and Fujitsu Siemens Computers are working closely together to offer leading edge technology to our customers,” said Bill Laing, general manager, Windows Server at Microsoft Corp. “Running Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 on PRIMERGY server provides a wide range of advantages and savings to our enterprise customers.
Very cool, it will be interesting to see what new products are released with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in mind, not to mention which servers from the different vendors support this new Microsoft operating system. I wonder if we’ll find more people ‘bundle’ Windows 2008 projects with virtualization - we need to upgrade to Windows 2008, let’s deploy it on virtual machines? We’ll have to see, do check out this news from Fujitsu relating to their servers suitability for Windows 2008.
