Hot on the heels of the worldwide release, Microsoft Malaysia today showcased the next generation of infrastructure and application platform products, including Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, in what is the largest enterprise launch in the company's history.

These new enterprise products help customers more efficiently and securely manage their entire infrastructure and move to a virtualized environment while also delivering business intelligence and next-generation Web experiences to boost business results. The performance improvements and enterprise-class features of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 have resulted in record-breaking results. Today Microsoft disclosed new world-record performance results on TPC-E and SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application 3-tier benchmarks running on four-socket industry-standard blade servers.

Microsoft also published breakthrough performance benchmarks for several customer scenarios, including leading results on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Siemens Teamcenter and Camstar Manufacturing Execution Systems.  Windows Server 2008, including a beta version of the Hyper-V virtualization technology, and Visual Studio 2008 are available today. The feature-complete, February community technology preview of SQL Server 2008 is also available, with general availability expected in the third quarter of 2008.

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Microsoft also announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with .NET Framework 3.5 delivers faster throughput than IBM WebSphere 6.1 on Red Hat Linux as shown through two new benchmark tests measuring scalability and performance in mission-critical enterprise scenarios. The sample application shows 117 percent better throughput of Windows Server using the IBM-designed Trade 6.1 benchmark; and Sun Microsystems’ WSTest Web services benchmark demonstrates 94 percent better throughput on Windows Server when processing Web Service requests.

Microsoft has worked with more than 1,000 industry partners to help plan, build, test and deploy leading-edge solutions by providing early access to code, training and testing, and certification support. Demonstrating support for the new products, customers and partners in Malaysia are making announcements and participating in the Heroes Happen Here launch event, including industry partners HP, Intel Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Symantec, amongst many.   

Celebrating Malaysian IT Heroes

In conjunction with its thematic launch, Heroes Happen Here also concluded its search contest for Malaysian IT Heroes (http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/heroes/contest.mspx), naming Paul Tham, Kang Chian Gim, Goh Siang Hwee, Low Weng Seng IT Superheroes for their innovative spirit and contribution as developers and IT professionals in their respective workplaces.

Speaking during the keynote, Yasmin said, "At the core of our industry are software developers, partners and IT professionals, who never stop building new products and making existing ones better - building new solutions and getting them deployed - day in, day out. And today, we want to celebrate these heroes who work behind the scenes tirelessly to bring their companies better enterprise solutions, enhanced security and optimized performances - basically adding cutting-edge and next-generation values to the organizations they work for.

"This new wave of products is dedicated in part to these IT heroes. We're providing them the best technology resources to help them do what they do better, faster and more effective. Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 will provide fresh thinking which will help IT professionals create dynamic systems that have seamless access to the information and the computing capabilities that users need, when they need them, on their desired device or form factor."

 Later this year Microsoft will release the Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products for small and midsize companies built on Windows Server 2008 and the newest Microsoft server technologies and services: Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, is on track for availability in the second half of 2008 and is designed to increase productivity, scalability and manageability for high-performance computing scenarios. In addition, Windows Storage Server 2008, the next-generation storage solution based on Windows Server 2008, will be available by the end of the year.

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