Windows Server 2012

1. Windows Server 2012 Initial Results from Early Adopters • 70 companies participated in the Windows Server 2012 Rapid Deployment Program (“RDP”) from April to August 2012 31% Americas 20% APAC 49% EMEA Hardware (CapEx) and Infrastructure Cost Savings from Virtualization Administration Cost (OpEx) Savings 100%respondents expect increase in VM workload density 20%-40%reduction in storage space is expected 91%respondents expect reduction in server admin labor 88%respondents expect reduction in network admin labor • $220,000 administration labor cost savings per year for the IT department is expected* 44%reduction in server hardware and associated utility and real estate costs is expected† †Current VM density was an average 27 VMs per host server (range of 8 to 90). Expected future VM density was an average 48 VMs per host server (range of 20 to 125). *Based on an expected average 3.2 hours savings per IT employee, a fully burdened salary of $37 per hour, and a IT department size of 1,830 employees across all surveyed participants. “Our goal is to get fully automated with Windows Server 2012 and IIS8. Automation of tasks will lead to estimated 20% reduction in [labor] costs.” – IT Manager at a European Automotive Company. “With Windows Server 2012 we expect to achieve a density of 32:1 for a 2x8 core CPU blade. Currently we can only expect 17 VMs per blade.” – IT Manager at a UK based Hosting Company. Business Benefits “VM deployment currently requires a lot of manual steps and about 30-45 minutes to provision each time. Using Windows Server 2012 and System Center, over the next few months we expect to create 52%reduction in planned downtime is expected 23% reduction in unplanned downtime is expected • automated processes to deploy and move workloads around.” • – IT Manager at a Major • European Bank 41% reduction in workload deployment time is expected 15hours annual savings in end-user productive timeper employee is expected