Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn, is using the Microsoft conference Tech*Ed 98 (7 through 10 July) to reaffirm its close and long-standing partnership with the US company. In Nice, Microsoft will present more than 4500 European IT professionals with the latest in the Windows world. As major partner, Siemens Nixdorf is the exclusive provider of the complete hardware and network infrastructure for this prestigious event.
On the partner stand, Siemens Nixdorf will be showing innovative solutions running under Windows NT on the new Primergy 870 Enterprise Server, as well as new solutions from the middleware sector. At this event Siemens Nixdorf and Microsoft will announce that Microsoft will be augmenting its Windows NT operating system by integrating Siemens Nixdorf's Software Management Tool "Transview SAX-PC".
At Tech*Ed, Microsoft will be showing more than 4500 European developers, consultants and decision-makers the latest technological developments involving the Windows operating system and associated applications. To ensure that the largest European Microsoft event runs smoothly, Microsoft will be relying on computers and solutions competence from the continent's biggest IT vendor.
The complete communications infrastructure will be exclusively supplied by Siemens Nixdorf, and will feature 22 high-end NT Servers from the Primergy product family, 1200 Scenic PCs, 100 Celsius Workstations, plus all network components.
Primergy 870: More performance for demanding R/3 solutions and terminals
One week after Intel's announcement of the Pentium II Xeon Processor, and the simultaneous launch of the Primergy 870 Enterprise NT Server, Siemens Nixdorf has become the first European vendor to demonstrate the efficiency of this NT server, using an R/3 solution with the database SQL Server V7.0 as an example. The Primergy 870, with its improved system architecture, demonstrates the performance leap delivered by the Xeon processor in computation-intensive R/3 solutions. Using this application as an example, Tech*Ed visitors can see how the Primergy 870 opens up new Enterprise Computing perspectives in the NT world.
At the same time, Siemens Nixdorf will also show the Primergy 870 running with Microsoft's "Windows based Terminal Server" (WTS), also known as "Hydra". With WTS, the applications run on the server, with only the user interface continuing to run on the client. This principle permits a substantial reduction in the administrative burden on the clients. The transfer of computing power to the server makes great demands in terms of scalability and failsafe characteristics of the server. Thanks to a new architecture, the Primergy 870 meets any demand made on a high-performance server. The various terminals (thin clients) that Siemens Nixdorf is offering for this solution will also be on display in Nice.
OpenUTM: High availability for enterprise-wide Windows NT solutions
Tech*Ed gives IT professionals the chance of seeing for themselves the efficiency of cluster solutions using Primergy servers. With the Microsoft Cluster Server, Microsoft meets all the requirements of demanding cluster solutions running under Windows NT. Deploying Siemens Nixdorf's transaction middleware OpenUTM now enables round-the-clock availability of enterprise-wide cluster systems. With OpenUTM, the NT user can employ technologies proven over many years in the mainframe sector.
TransView SAX-PC: Microsoft augments Windows NT by integrating Siemens Nixdorf tool
The free entry-level version of the software management tool "TransView SAX-PC" from Siemens Nixdorf is to become part of Microsoft's globally marketed Windows NT 5.0 CD. Using TransView SAX-PC, software for all Windows platforms can be configured, packaged, distributed, and installed as an unattended operation. TransView SAX-PC thus represents the ideal complement to Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS). The entry-level version differs from the full version only in the number of PC and software packages that can be administered.
Further information about Siemens Nixdorf SA can be found on http://www.sni.co.za
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