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Organizations today are faced with significant challenges in the datacenter ranging from server sprawl, security requirements, reducing costs, preventing downtime, regulatory compliance, and gaining operational efficiencies. Additionally, teams tasked with managing datacenters have limited resources and budgets, while at the same time being asked to extend business solutions and applications across hosted, private, and public cloud infrastructures. Datacenter service teams are constantly looking to take advantage of opportunities for datacenter modernization to help tackle these ongoing challenges by investing in the right technology and solutions. Today’s economy has made reducing costs and business agility the keys to long-term success and that starts with optimization of resources in the datacenter.

Datacenter Services

Datacenter Services is a portfolio of solutions from Microsoft and its partners designed to meet the unique needs of today’s IT by integrating technology, people, and processes to help transform datacenters into strategic business assets.

Datacenter Services can help provide:

• Assessment and optimization of datacenter capabilities in order to deliver private cloud and datacenter solutions through a centralized management platform.
• Enable the efficient utilization of hardware and IT resources, self-service capabilities, capacity planning, service-level management, and proactive systems monitoring.
• Accelerate the deployment of new solutions using industry-leading architectures and service-delivery frameworks relying on Microsoft’s 25 plus years of software development and enterprise cloud-service management experience.

Microsoft Private Cloud

The Microsoft Private Cloud is a set of technologies, tools, and processes built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, Hyper-V, and Microsoft System Center. This solution allows IT organizations to offer their business customers lower cost, greater business agility, and improved availability by transforming how they manage and deliver IT services. Microsoft designed its approach to the private cloud on a set of core architecture principles to help ensure the consistent, high-value delivery of IT services today and in the future as organizations continue to grow. With this experience, Microsoft can help you optimize your datacenter capabilities, minimize risks, and maximize the return on your investment from private cloud initiatives.

To learn more about how Microsoft Services can help you accelerate your Microsoft Private Cloud deployment, please see the Microsoft Private Cloud Jumpstart here.