Interoperability
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Linux and Open Source technologies continue their advancement into today’s data centers where according to Gartner, 67% of data centers run some combination of Linux and Windows. Serving this growing market reality was the driving catalyst behind our interoperability partnership with Microsoft. And it’s nice to see as we end 2007 that we’ve been jointly recognized by Frost and Sullivan by receiving their industry innovation and advancement award for system interoperability.
While there are certainly user and productivity benefits from deploying the right technology for the task, it does carry a potentially higher degree of management complexity. We view it as our mission to reduce this complexity on behalf of our customers thereby letting them focus on their own business innovation and growth.
Of course there’s lots more to do, not just on the interoperability front, but automating the management of the growing mixed source world and the bridge between physical and virtual environments…but that’s a discussion for next year (ie tomorrow).
Happy New Year!
John