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Recent Releases

  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC now available... More
  • Office 365 Integration Module for SBS Essentials now available... More
  • System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC now available... More
  • System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC now available... More
  • System Center App Controller 2012 beta now available... More
  • System Center Service Manager 2012 beta now available... More
  • System Center Orchestrator 2012 RC now available... More

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System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Available

The Release Candidate for System Center Operations Manager 2012 is now available for download. Operations Manager 2012 provides infrastructure monitoring that’s flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter, private cloud, and public cloud.

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC Available

The Release Candidates for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (previously known as Forefront Endpoint Protection) are now available for download. These releases includes significant scalability and performance improvements, along with:

 
  • Improved endpoint protection functionality and reporting
  • Support for Windows Embedded devices
  • Support for managing Nokia mobile devices
  • Improved application catalog, compliance tracking, and client health check
 

System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products Now Available

System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter management solutions empower you with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services. They help you to deliver private cloud services that empower business teams, provide greater insights into application performance, and allow you to carry forward current IT investments as you adopt public cloud computing.
 
Try the System Center 2012 pre-release products today, including the App Controller and Service Manager betas.

Windows Server 8: An Introduction

Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, provides an overview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8". This is the first of a series of blogs about this next release.  Read more on the Server - Cloud blog.  

 
In case you missed it, in his keynote STB president Satya Nadella highlighted that the next version of Windows Server, codenamed Windows Server 8, will be the next step in private cloud computing. Get a sneak peek and learn more here.

Customers Reap Benefits from Comprehensive Cloud Approach

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, shares his perspective on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy, our private cloud solutions and the economics of those solutions versus VMware. Read more on the Server-Cloud blog.

Gartner: Microsoft a Leader in x86 Server Virtualization

Gartner published the 2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, in which Microsoft is listed among the leaders, along with Citrix and VMware. Microsoft’s Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management & Security Division, discusses how Gartner’s results are changing the conversation with customers on the Cloud Power Blog.

Customers Reap Benefits from Comprehensive Cloud Approach

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, shares his perspective on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy, our private cloud solutions and the economics of those solutions versus VMware. Read more on the Server-Cloud blog.

Gartner: Microsoft a Leader in x86 Server Virtualization

Gartner published the 2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, in which Microsoft is listed among the leaders, along with Citrix and VMware. Microsoft’s Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management & Security Division, discusses how Gartner’s results are changing the conversation with customers on the Cloud Power Blog.

Microsoft’s Private Cloud Fast Track Accelerates Private Cloud Deployment

Get an infrastructure as a service private cloud with a pre-validated configuration from server partners in the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track. Offerings from the Fast Track program combine Microsoft software; consolidated guidance; validated configurations from OEM partners for compute, network, and storage; and value-added software components.
 

Microsoft and Dell – Management and Virtualization Solutions Partnership

Microsoft and Dell announced a strategic partnership that will deliver joint management and virtualization solutions to help you get more out of your investment by integrating Dell’s hardware, storage and virtualization management technologies with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center technologies. 
 

Microsoft Workloads Best on Hyper-V

More and more companies are using Microsoft virtualization to deploy server applications like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint Server as well as packaged and custom Line of Business (LOB) applications. These customers can recognize significant benefits including increased resource utilization, enhanced business continuity, and a more agile and efficient management solution. Learn more about the advantages of Microsoft virtualization solutions below and read the new Enterprise Strategy Group Lab Summary on Hyper-V R2 SP1 Application Workload Performance
 

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