We know that customers also frequently have mixed virtualization environments, and for years we have included the capability in the System Center tools to manage across these environments, including those offered by third-party companies such as VMware ESX.
So while liquid financial markets, educated workforces and business-friendly legal environments are still indispensable ingredients of any international financial center, non-traditional factors like the state of local infrastructure systems have become an indisputable piece of the puzzle.
As this move to server virtualization transpired, a coinciding evolution in IT management capabilities needed to occur and we at Microsoft began delivering this years ago with the Microsoft System Center suite, adapting the tools to provide the same management experience across your physical and virtual environments.