Benjie - Re: ", I think you've helped explain the Microsoft-AMD alliance that is quietly forming. "
REAL quiet, isn't it ?
Like this:
"Microsoft is excited by the significant investments and resulting enhancements being made by IBM, Intel and Sequent to the Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms," Deborah Willingham, Microsoft's vice president of marketing for the business and enterprise division said in a statement."
Paul
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Microsoft Touts Windows 2000 Scalability at Tech Ed
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By Stuart Glascock Dallas 7:51 PM EST Fri., May 21, 1999
On the opening day of Tech Ed 99, Microsoft showcased enterprise-level features in the forthcoming Windows 2000 operating system and emphasized renewed partnerships with IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Sequent Computer Systems Inc. Brian Valentine, vice president of the business enterprise division, opened the 8-day conference, which is expected to draw some 10,000 developers, IT professionals and system integrators, with a keynote address highlighting the Physical Address Extension technology from Intel.
The technology enables large memory support, server cluster support and maintenance technology from IBM and workflow software solutions from Sequent. The highlight was a demonstration designed to show the scalability benefits of large-memory support. It included a prototype Intel 8-way Pentium III Xeon system based on Intel's Profusion chip set running a beta of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server with 8 GB of physical memory.
"The concept there was to show the kind of high-end platforms that are now available on the PC server market, and the fact that the PC server market continues to gain ground and offer more features and functions," said Michel Gambier, Microsoft product manager for Windows NT Server. In his opening speech, Valentine also showed two of the most long-awaited features of Windows 2000 IntelliMirror and Active Directory. Windows 2000 is currently in its final beta and expected to ship later this year. "Microsoft is excited by the significant investments and resulting enhancements being made by IBM, Intel and Sequent to the Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms," Deborah Willingham, Microsoft's vice president of marketing for the business and enterprise division said in a statement.
In pushing Windows NT up into the datacenter, Microsoft showed a clustering technology from IBM that allows administrators to configure a system running eight Netfinity servers in a cluster. That product is code-named Cornhusker. It is a software and services product officially named the Netfinity Availability Extention for MSCS (Microsoft's Cluster Services), said IBM's Roger Hellman, product manager for Cornhusker.
"We're really raising significantly the bar here," said John White, Sequent's manager of strategic relationship Microsoft. "Both our customers and resellers have been saying we need to have NT in the datacenter." At the conference, Microsoft also released new "best practices" guides and tools for enterprise customers who want to lower the costs of their IT infrastructure while using reliable systems. To reach these goals, Microsoft suggested server consolidation and resource management, clustering, and the application of stringent operational procedures. Using the guides will help system integrators to deploy Windows Server products while achieving greater efficiency, the company said.
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