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Microsoft India launches three tools
By Christo Jacob
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 01:41 IST
Bangalore: Microsoft India is betting on the technology infrastructure in organization with its launch of three tools. The new offerings, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, help customers drive greater business continuity with improved security, enable innovation while controlling costs, and empower people to make better decisions with data.
The three products enable Dynamic IT - a platform for core IT infrastructure and application infrastructure technologies that can easily adapt to changing business conditions.
To promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are key products in the company's strategy.
The Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) at Hyderabad, which is the software giant's largest development center outside Redmond, has played a key role in the development of each of these products. In the last three-year MSIDC, which currently employs 1400 people working, end-to-end on several important Microsoft products, features and technologies have filed 180 patents.
Microsoft has worked with more than 1,000 global partners to help plan, build, test, and deploy these leading-edge solutions by providing early access to code, training and testing, and certification support.
In India, Allahabad Bank; Kotak Bank; Larsen & Toubro - ECC; Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC); Sahara India; The Chembur Nagrik Sahakari Bank and TVS Motors are some of the early adopters for these products.
In April, Microsoft will also be offering live online learning sessions to help Developers and IT Professionals across the country get skilled on these products.
"Organizations currently spend more than 70 percent of their IT budgets and resources on maintaining existing infrastructure - this is clearly less than optimal and a huge drain on resources. The focus for this launch is to allow businesses to provide them with powerful tools to focus on acquiring and leveraging new capabilities, rather than straining to maintain existing infrastructure," said Mr. S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Microsoft.
While addressing the conference Microsoft also announced the winners of campaign "Heroes Happen Here"- Rajesh Shirpuram from Spadeworx, Saravanan Rajappa from TCS and Rizwan Ahmed, who are now headed to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Through the last four months, Microsoft, globally and in India, ran an extensive campaign aimed at celebrating the contribution of technologists including IT professionals and developers, to business success. The contest received response with over 1,000 technologists writing in about their achievements.
