Today’s business is faced with the challenges of managing costs while improving flexibility and agility to drive new business opportunity. All in an increasingly complex IT landscape. Dynamic IT is Microsoft’s long-term strategy for providing critical technologies that enable IT and development organizations to become more strategic to their businesses. A dynamic infrastructure is Microsoft’s vision for what an agile business looks like—a business in which IT works closely with business to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and adaptable environment.

• Microsoft System Center
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Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center products and solutions play a central role in Microsoft’s vision for helping IT organizations benefit from self-managing, 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.

The Microsoft System Center family of products can help you manage your physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices. System Center products and solutions can help you capture and aggregate knowledge about your infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so your IT staff can build manageable systems and automate operations in order to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

Core Products

• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
  Microsoft 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.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
  Microsoft 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.
• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
  Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager is the new standard for Windows backup and recovery, delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media. System Center Data Protection Manager enables rapid and reliable recovery through advanced technology for organizations of all sizes.
• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and VMs, consolidation of underutilized physical servers, and rapid provisioning of new VMs by leveraging the expertise and investments in Windows Server technology.
• Microsoft System Center Essentials
  Microsoft System Center Essentials is specifically designed for midsize businesses (up to 500 client computers and 30 servers). System Center Essentials provides a unified management product that enables IT pros in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.

Other System Center Products

• Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner
  Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner is a pre-deployment capacity-planning and post-deployment change-analysis solution for Microsoft Server offerings, including Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and soon, System Center Operations Manager). It provides the tools and guidance to deploy servers efficiently while planning for the future by allowing for “what-if“ analyses.
• Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager
  Microsoft 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.
• Microsoft 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.

Related Products

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (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.

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance is a suite of five products sold as an add-on subscription license available to Software Assurance customers. MDOP uses innovative technologies to help reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Windows desktop by accelerating operating system and application management and enhancing IT responsiveness and user uptime.

Microsoft System Center Online Services are facilitating a whole new way to achieve the benefits of systems management that is best for Windows. Unlike traditional software products that require costly investment in infrastructure and time-consuming roll-outs, System Center Online Services enables immediate access to tools that assist you in controlling and protecting IT in order to ensure it is available for use when you need it.

Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 R2 (now System Center Configuration Manager 2007) builds upon the base of the SMS 2003 SP2 foundation to provide a comprehensive solution for change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform. SMS 2003 R2 enables organizations to quickly and cost-effectively provide relevant software and updates to users from Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors.

Related Solutions

Helps you fully manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to clients in your environments, after your testing, and on your schedule.

Imagine a world where infrastructure costs decrease as system capabilities increase. Imagine a world where you can update servers, desktops and apps on a moment’s notice. Welcome to the world of virtualization – where all of this is reality, and virtually anything is possible.

Internet Information Services 7.0 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences and offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help achieve lower infrastructure costs on a variety of popular development platforms.