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Cloud computing is transforming the way enterprises provide and consume IT services with the promise of more productive infrastructure and more predictable applications.
 
System Center 2012 delivers on this promise by enabling your enterprise to benefit from private, hosted, and public cloud computing while still supporting your unique business needs. It helps organize your IT assets – network, storage, compute – into a hybrid cloud model spanning the private cloud and public cloud services from a single console view.
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  • Productive Infrastructure

    System Center 2012 helps you deliver flexible and cost effective infrastructure using...

    System Center 2012 helps you deliver flexible and cost effective infrastructure using what you already know and own.
     
    Heterogeneous Support
     
    System Center 2012 offers integrated management for your heterogeneous environments. You can manage multiple hypervisors including Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix; monitor multiple operating systems including Unix/Linux; and interoperate with management toolsets from VMware, HP, CA, IBM, and BMC.
     
    Process Automation
     
    System Center 2012 helps you simplify and standardize your datacenter processes with its flexible automation platform. By automating repetitive tasks, you can drive down costs and improve service reliability. Your IT staff can focus their time on doing more impactful things for your business.
     
    Self-Service Infrastructure
     
    System Center 2012 can help you pool and abstract your datacenter resources into a private cloud infrastructure fabric. Your application owners can then request private cloud capacity using a self-service catalog.

  • Predictable Applications

    Applications power your business. Deliver predictable application service...

    Applications power your business. Deliver predictable application service levels with deep application insight.
     
    Deep Application Monitoring and Diagnosis
     
    System Center 2012 offers 360-degree performance monitoring and deep application insight integrated with your developer operations to help rapidly identify and resolve issues. This enables you to efficiently work with your application development counterpart and reduce the time to resolve critical issues thereby optimizing application health.
     
    Comprehensive Application Manageability
     
    Through Microsoft Server Application Virtualization technology, System Center 2012 enables you to abstract applications from the underlying infrastructure. This helps simplify how you upgrade and maintain your applications thereby reducing administrative effort.
     
    Service-Centric Approach
     
    System Center 2012 can help you manage the application lifecycle in the context of the holistic service that it represents to the business. Through innovative technology like service templates, you can standardize how applications are composed and deployed, thereby saving time and reducing the chance of errors.

  • Your Cloud

    Private and public cloud computing on your terms managed with a common toolset...

    Private and public cloud computing on your terms managed with a common toolset.
     
    Flexibility with Delegation and Control
     
    System Center 2012 provides the flexibility to construct and manage across private, hosted, and public clouds. You have full control across these environments. At the same time, you can delegate authority to your application owners to enable self-service.
     
    Application Self-Service across Clouds
     
    System Center 2012 provides a common console across private, hosted, and public clouds that empowers application owners to easily build, configure, deploy, and manage new services. You can also use your existing System Center investments to monitor and manage applications and virtual machines running on Windows Azure.
     
    Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Management
     
    As hybrid IT environments become the norm, you can manage your physical, virtual, private cloud, hosted cloud and public cloud investments with System Center 2012 to optimize ROI.

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