At the Microsoft Management Summit 2007 (MMS 2007) today, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., outlined how Microsoft is delivering on its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) through investments and partnerships that advance the Microsoft� System Center family of management solutions. In his keynote address to an audience of 3,000 IT professionals, business decision-makers and partners, Muglia demonstrated several of the solutions Microsoft is delivering to help customers more effectively manage their IT environments and outlined how these solutions fit into the company�s long-term vision to help IT departments evolve from organizational cost centers to strategic business assets.

With the availability of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Microsoft is making it easier for customers to extend and integrate IT event and performance monitoring to help improve service levels across an IT environment. After announcing the availability of System Center Operations Manager 2007, Muglia was joined onstage by Howard Elias, executive vice president of the Global Services and Resource Management Software Group at EMC Corporation. Together they unveiled a strategic technology licensing agreement and broader industry collaboration that will accelerate Microsoft�s ability to add network management capability to Operations Manager 2007 and broaden the impact of DSI in the industry. Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft and EMC conveyed their collective commitment to creating common models for infrastructure management.

�At this event last year I described our Dynamic Systems vision; today, with the release of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and these industry partner announcements, we are able to show how we are delivering on that vision,� Muglia said. �The products we are releasing and those in the pipeline, together with the collaboration with our industry partners, will yield tremendous value for our customers in terms of management efficiency and agility.�