Microsoft Windows Server 2012
The final Tech Innovator award was in the virtualization category and also happened to be the CRN Test Center's Editor's Choice. Trailing in the virtualization market almost since there was a virtualization market, this company has worked hard for years to build a system with capabilities that are almost beyond belief. For example, imagine migrating an established LAN and its users from behind a company's firewall to the cloud using drag-and-drop with virtually no user downtime. With its data-center abstraction layer, companies can deploy and manage virtualized applications, full desktops, servers and even orchestrated Web services using a GUI, a command prompt or natural-language scripting. And as the company's competitors are learning, simple, core-based pricing is the method most preferred by resellers and the industry. So we congratulate this year's Tech Innovator award winner for virtualization and the 2012 Editor's Choice award. Both go to Microsoft and its Windows Server 2012. Accepting for Microsoft was Jeff Woolsey, principle program manager lead, Windows Server.
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