To accelerate the adoption of virtualization technology in India, Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a joint initiative to launch Microsoft-TCS virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai.
The CoE will leverage Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008)to showcase virtualization scenarios to customers.
At the center, customers can experience the right approach to applying and managing virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely, server, machine, application and desktop) in their business environments.
"Virtualization is one of the most disruptive technologies in the world today. Though there is adequate knowledge on the benefits of virtualization - only 5% of the world's servers are virtualized today, said Rajan Anandan (MD, Microsoft India).
This, according to Anandan, is due to lack of guidance among customers around actual implementation of this technology and their inability to demystify the conceptual transition from physical to virtual environments.
Through our partnership with TCS to launch the virtualization CoE, we will address this crucial market need and help customers land the benefits of virtualization technology in accordance with their business requirements," he said.
Commenting on the CoE initiative, P. R. Krishnan, VP & Global Head-IT Infrastructure Services, TCS, said virtualization has wide-reaching implications for global as well as Indian businesses. Due to its key benefits such as improved performance, reduced total cost of ownership and increased availability of IT infrastructure - virtualization is increasingly being viewed as an imperative technology by customers, specifically in these challenging economic times," he said.
The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE will also help customers experience how virtualization technology deployment in the datacenter can enable improved performance, higher availability and lower cost of ownership of IT infrastructure.
