Microsoft already supports Hyper-V environments that include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server. It added CentOS because it’s a popular distribution for hosting providers, a market Microsoft hopes to do well in. The company has realized it must interoperate with Linux and other OSes if it wants to do well in data centers, which are typically mixed environments.
“The new solution extension is the result of years of e-invoicing experience at Crossgate AG and the extensive cooperation between Crossgate and SAP,” said Oliver Bahner, executive vice president, SAP Business at Crossgate. “It should be understood as the next logical step to SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate The flexibility and scalability of the solution helps meet the needs of small businesses as well as multinational customers.
Given today’s stagnant and declining IT budgets, it’s imperative that organizations achieve more value from their IT spending. By understanding challenges, risks and threats, organizations can plan and implement strategic technology initiatives such as virtualization, mobile security, encryption, backup and recovery, archiving and cloud computing to protect and manage their information more efficiently.
