Speaking to more than 10,000 IT professionals attending the Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals conference, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., said that the past year has been a pivotal one in the evolution of corporate datacenters, and that Microsoft is delivering on its Dynamic IT initiative thanks to products such as Windows Server 2008; Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5; the next version of Identity Lifecycle Manager, code-named ILM “2”; Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Muglia’s remarks built upon his comments at last year’s Tech•Ed event, (http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0705/30242/Bob_Muglia-Dynamic_IT_MBR.asx), where he touted the benefits of Microsoft’s Dynamic IT initiative, and came on the heels of last week’s Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 Developers conference, where Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke to the transformation of application development. Dynamic IT, which converts IT from a business expense to a business asset and shifts the IT focus from activities that just keep datacenters running to those that can result in strategic advantages, continues to be a key theme for the company.