Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Windows® Small Business Server 2003 Release Candidate is available for technology providers and small businesses to begin testing. Available in two editions, Premium and Standard, the newest version of Windows Small Business Server is built on Microsoft's highly reliable and secure Windows Server (TM) 2003 operating system and delivers an integrated solution that is simple to install, simple to manage and simple to use. By incorporating these simplicity innovations into both Standard and Premium versions, Windows Small Business Server 2003 offers more value to a broader set of small-business customers. Microsoft will begin shipping 200,000 evaluation kits for testing and evaluation and will kick off a worldwide partner training program, ensuring that technology providers, who are often the principal IT support for small businesses, are fully prepared to help their small-business customers immediately realize solution benefits upon commercial availability.

"We looked very carefully at the needs of small-business customers and their technology providers when we designed this release of Windows SBS," said Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of the Windows Server Group at Microsoft. "Windows Small Business Server 2003 delivers unprecedented innovations in simplicity, resulting in a new solution that uniquely enables a broader population of small businesses to more quickly realize returns on their IT investment while providing new opportunities for channel partners to profitably service an even larger spectrum of small-business customers."

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In addition, VMware has also developed "VMotion" software, which lets IT managers move a virtual server from one physical server to another, without interrupting the apps running on the virtual server. "It's like moving a file from one place to another in Windows," says Michael Mullany, VMware's senior director of product management. "Before VMotion, there would be hardware downtime to transfer virtual servers."

While companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems have established strategies or visions of what utility computing will look like, virtualization of servers, networking, and storage form the foundation. From there, companies can automate resource allocation among virtual resources and write policy-management programs, Mullany says.

VMware is making available scripting APIs for Control Center, which will be available in the fourth quarter. The availability of these interfaces is expected to make it easier for companies to use VMware with more comprehensive IT management software from Computer Associates, HP, and IBM.


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by UnaBonger on 01 Jul 2003 - 13:45
Oohhhhh, good find Voodoo! I was wondering when SBS 2k3 would get released. Can't wait... SBS rocks!

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