Monday, September 20, 2010

Microsoft System Center Solutions

Microsoft System Center solutions play a central role in Microsoft's long term vision for helping IT organizations benefit from self-managing, user-centric, dynamic systems. System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about the infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so that IT pros can optimize IT structures to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

These integrated and automated management solutions enable IT organizations to be more productive service providers to their businesses. Aiming to enable self-managing, dynamic systems, System Center solutions close the gap between development, operations, and IT—connecting people, processes, and tools—by evaluating dependencies and optimizing business process performance from deep inside the operating system, applications, and composite services and workflows in both physical and virtual environments.

With Microsoft System Center solutions, IT pros have the power to more effectively and easily manage all the components that define IT, allowing them to focus more on delivering new business value for the organization.

System Center solutions provide integrated management of all aspects of IT infrastructures in physical and virtual environments, using knowledge-driven management guidance to help organizations realize the value of their investment faster than ever.

With the strongest partner ecosystem, the most compelling licensing model, and the best economics, System Center solutions provide a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and a high return on investment (ROI). The functionality and economics of System Center solutions combine to provide the fastest time to value while building a more agile IT infrastructure.

System Center Products
  1. System Center Configuration Manager
    System Center Configuration Manager comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and extensible, it is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into and control over IT systems.
  2. System Center Operations Manager
    System Center Operations Manager is the end-to-end service-management product that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment.
  3. Data Protection Manager
    Delivering enterprise-class data protection and scalability, Data Protection Manager provides unified data protection for Windows servers such as SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Virtualization and file servers, in addition to Windows desktops and laptops.
  4. System Center Virtual Machine Manager
    System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides a management solution for today’s virtualized data center, affording centralized management of the IT infrastructure, increased server utilization capability, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization and physical platforms.
  5. System Center Essentials
    Specifically designed for midsize organizations, System Center Essentials provides a unified IT management solution that enables you to simply and efficiently perform complex management tasks across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware, software and IT services from a single console.
  6. System Center Service Manager
    A new Microsoft System Center product, System Center Service Manager is being designed to meet the needs of the modern IT help desk. By providing powerful new capabilities for incident, problem, asset, and change management, System Center Service Manager will support organizations as they seek to improve the service they provide to their users.
  7. Opalis
    As a part of the System Center family, Opalis provides IT processes automation of incident response, provisioning, virtual lifecycle management and change management. This is achieved through a workflow environment that orchestrates and integrates System Center tools with 3rd party management tools, enabling interoperability and process consistency across the datacenter.
  8. AVIcode
    AVIcode delivers market-leading .NET application performance monitoring capabilities to help ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services, regardless of where they are deployed.
  9. System Center Mobile Device Manager
    System Center Mobile Device Manager is a flexible, end-to-end product for single-point access of LOB applications and corporate data on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. System Center Mobile Device Manager provides secure access to sensitive corporate data on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices in a seamless manner, resulting in a positive user experience.
  10. Microsoft Application Virtualization
    Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid Application Virtualization) allows the flexibility to control virtual application interaction. Administrators wanting to consolidate virtual environments and enable faster, easier administration can use the product’s Dynamic Suite Composition, which sequences and manages packages for middleware applications separately from the main application.
  11. Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
    Windows Vista Enterprise, combined with technologies such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and flexible licensing options, provides powerful tools that help you optimize your organization's desktop infrastructure while enabling increased flexibility, centralizing security, and streamlining deployment, helping to provide greater productivity to users.

System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise and System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter include Enterprise Server Management Licenses, which provides a complete set of server management capabilities for application and platform management that span physical and virtual environments. System Center Management Suite Enterprise is licensed to provide the right to manage up to four virtual operating system environments and one physical operating system environment, while System Center Management Suite Datacenter is licensed per processor and provides the right to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments on a single server.