Alliance Members

www.1e.com - Founding Member

1E is a Microsoft Gold Partner providing world-class System Center professional services and software solutions, deployed to over 8 million seats in 1,000+ enterprises across 36 countries. Customers include Allstate Insurance, Verizon Wireless, British Airways, Dell, HSBC, Nestlé, and the U.S. Air Force on behalf of the Pentagon.

www.www.acresso.com

Acresso Software (makers of AdminStudio, InstallShield and FLEXnet) provides solutions that power the business of software. By simplifying the business relationship between software/hardware producers and their customers, Acresso solutions have a 25-year history of maximizing the value of the software that the world develops and uses. The company focuses on serving the needs of software/hardware producers, enterprises, and government agencies with three robust solutions: Entitlement Relationship Management, Enterprise Compliance, and Application Repackaging and Readiness.

www.avicode.com

AVIcode’s award-winning solutions are recommended as a best practice by Microsoft for .NET application monitoring. Organizations worldwide rely on AVIcode’s technology to detect and diagnose application problems throughout the application lifecycle. AVIcode’s technology powers some of the industry’s leading solutions including Operations Manager 2007 and Quest Software’s Foglight for .NET. Learn more at www.avicode.com.

www.bocada.com - Founding Member

Bocada Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 automatically delivers in-depth reports to ensure data recoverability and efficiency throughout the DPM environment. Provides a centralized view to track synchronizations, recoveries and capacity use across heterogeneous applications.

www.brabeion.com - Founding Member

Brabeion helps organizations achieve and sustain compliance and optimally manage risks through full policy, procedure and controls lifecycle management powered by comprehensive information risk and audit content. Microsoft licenses Brabeion content in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 that provides baseline configuration controls for Microsoft products. This helps manage systems in the context of regulatory requirements such as: FISMA, HIPPA, SOX, GLBA and EUPD.

www.brocade.com - Founding Member

Brocade's entire Fibre Channel product line supports standards-based N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) enabling multiple virtual servers to share and connect over a single physical interface. Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager uses Brocade NPIV-enabled FC connections for increased availability and reliability, enhanced application mobility, improved fabric interoperability, greater operational control, and increased scalability by eliminating fabric domain count restrictions.

www.citrix.com - Founding Member

Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and trusted name in application delivery infrastructure, with over 180,000 customers worldwide. Citrix has a strategic business relationship with Microsoft with extensive joint development, marketing, and joint sales engagements. Citrix Presentation Server supports the Microsoft System Center family of products. Citrix will continue to embrace and extend the Microsoft Windows platform with Citrix technologies and products such as Citrix Desktop Server and the virtualization environment.

www.cristalink.com - Founding Member

Cristalink’s Firestreamer allows Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to access a wide range of non-tape storage media, making possible long-term and off-site retention of data without the need for tape drives.

www.dudeWorks.com

DudeWorks Inventory Manager for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 helps you get more out of your inventory data. Remove the complexities of customizing inventory collection to suit the needs of your company. Easily view, edit, create, and deploy inventory rules for hardware and software within System Center Configuration Manager 2007.

www.enterprisecertified.com

ECC maximizes the scope of event security and compliance auditing, rapid reporting, and extensible data archiving. The eSCOP™ product family extends Operation Manager ACS and Data Warehouse database functionality. ECC expert solutions and services are based on industry best practices and addresses regulatory requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA and GLBA.

www.emc.com - Founding Member

EMC supports Microsoft System Center across both Operations Manager 2007 and Data Protection Manager 2007. The EMC Smarts Solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 allows you to manage and monitor complex IT services with one integrated management solution. The EMC CLARiiON Storage Solution for Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 uses EMC clone technology to quickly and non-disruptively replicate protected data sources to and from a Data Protection Manager server. These joint solutions from Microsoft and EMC helps customers manage your entire IT service chain.

www.emulex.com - Founding Member

Emulex’s award-winning VMPilot application is the only host bus adapter (HBA) management software designed specifically for Microsoft Virtual Server. Running on Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs with LightPulse® Virtual HBA technology, Emulex VMPilot coupled with Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 delivers enhanced storage area network (SAN) connectivity capabilities. The integrated solution with industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support allows administrators to seamlessly deploy and migrate SAN-based virtual machines while maintaining existing SAN management best practices.

www.equallogic.com - Founding Member

EqualLogic® is a leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI SAN solutions. The PS Series' native support for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, its rich data protection features and proven superior performance makes it an ideal storage platform for Microsoft environments. The all-inclusive PS Series’ advanced software features significantly reduce system acquisition cost. In addition, the PS Series’ automation, load balancing, and ease of use and management reduce administrative expenses, delivering lower TCO and higher ROI.

www.hp.com - Founding Member

HP server, blade, and client integrations with Microsoft System Center extend the native manageability of HP hardware to bring total control, maximum flexibility, and tangible savings for best-run infrastructures. HP Server Management Packs intuitively integrate with Operations Manager and System Center Essentials for simplified HP Server and BladeSystem monitoring as well as providing unique HP Server functionality such as the Custom Data Manager that allows for customized server data.

www.intel.com - Founding Member

Intel has been working closely with Microsoft integrate the powerful hardware-based capabilities of Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology and Intel® vPro™ processor technology with Microsoft management solutions. Intel has integrated the management capabilities of Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vPro processor technology across the System Center family of solutions.

www.intrinsic.net - Founding Member

SWIMAGE® is Intrinsic’s industry leading OS deployment framework supporting desktops, servers and XP Embedded devices. Leveraging existing infrastructure components like Active Directory and Microsoft Systems Management Server/Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, SWIMAGE® empowers companies to turn deployment into a strategic activity by reducing the cost, time and resources involved and enabling the adoption of standard operating system builds seamlessly.

www.lefthandnetworks.com - Founding Member

LeftHand Networks is the leader in Open iSCSI SANs, and gives customers the freedom to build enterprise-class storage solutions on their choice of hardware. The SAN/iQ® platform turns enterprise-class x86 servers into scalable network storage ideal for server consolidation and virtualization projects, Microsoft application environments, and disaster recovery solutions.

www.mir3.com

MIR3 is the leading Intelligent Notification Global Enterprise Platform. Organizations using SCOM notify and escalate critical events to end users on any protocol or device by integrating TelAlert 6e Messaging Server. This powerful combination of leading enterprise management solutions speeds problem resolution, improves service levels, and minimizes outages.

www.n-able.com

N-able Technologies® is the preferred global supplier of remote monitoring and management technology and related business, sales and support services for managed service providers. N-able’s proven IT automation solutions offer the right combination of technology, people and processes, which help IT service providers to deliver highly profitable managed services to small- and medium-sized businesses.

www.netqos.com

NetQoS delivers application-aware network performance management products and services that large enterprises, service providers, and government organizations use to manage and improve application delivery across their global network infrastructures.

www.nokiaforbusiness.com - Founding Member

Nokia Intellisync Device Management is a multi-platform mobile device management solution, supporting a broad range of mobile device platforms including Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry and Windows for laptops and desktops. Nokia Intellisync Device Management integrates with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to facilitate importing and distributing software packages to remote mobile users.

www.odysseysoftware.com - Founding Member

Odyssey Software's flagship solution–Athena™– is designed to extend the Microsoft System Center family of solutions with enhanced capabilities to manage, monitor, and support Windows Mobile and Windows CE-based devices. Because Athena integrates seamlessly with Configuration Manager, customers can leverage their investment in Configuration Manager's inherent scalability, security and reliability.

www.provance.com

The Provance Software and IT Asset Management solution extends the value of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to increase service management efficiency, drive down IT costs and reduce security and compliance risks. Supporting ITIL® and the Microsoft Operations Framework, Provance strengthens IT effectiveness at every level of the Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model.

www.pssoft.com - Founding Member

The PS'Soft Asset Management solution is designed to enable enterprise companies to find efficiencies in their IT Asset Management processes. By delivering industry best practices out-of-the-box, customers achieve significant business value. Thanks to its total adaptability and native integration with SCCM 2007, PS'Soft Asset Management is easily configured to support current business processes and to achieve optimal performance.

www.quest.com - Founding Member

Quest Software enables organizations with heterogeneous IT environments to leverage System Center as the platform for managing and optimizing their IT environment. Quest’s solutions natively integrate into System Center solutions providing an easily implemented, scalable, and seamless extension of System Center to non-Microsoft systems. Quest enables administrators and system integrators to ensure applications and services are available and operating at optimal levels to meet the demands of the enterprise at the lowest possible cost – regardless of platform.

www.savision.com

Savision provides real-time visualization of IT problems in the context of your business. Savision’s Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 overlays the health-state of any monitored object onto Visio diagrams, geographical or business service maps. The combination provides a rapidly actionable operator display, which significantly reduces IT incident identification and problem resolution times.

www.sccmexpert.com - Founding Member

SCCM Expert (formerly SMS Expert) develops and markets software solutions for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. SCCM Expert’s enterprise products, SCCM Companion and SCCM Self Service, work in concert to address both the large scale software deployment challenges and individual software distribution requests. Our technology is deeply integrated, we have world class support and our customers see ROI within weeks.

www.scriptlogic.com - Founding Member

ScriptLogic Corporation is a leading global provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft Windows-based networks. ScriptLogic’s Desktop Authority MSI Studio enables easy creation, packaging, editing and capture of MSI application installers, and integrates with Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 for point-click-done packaging and deployment of applications around the enterprise. ScriptLogic provides a free MSI analysis tool that assist in preparing MSIs for use with Windows Vista. Download the MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista today.

www.securevantage.com - Founding Member

The Secure Vantage Compliance Security Suite for System Center extends traditional Windows security auditing to group policy, active directory and applications. Reporting supports hundreds of scenarios, advanced filtering, localization and unmatched archiving. Knowledge is compiled from industry experts, Microsoft resources and standards like CoBITs, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX and others.

www.silect.com - Founding Member

Silect Software’s products maximize the return on investment in Microsoft System Center. MP Studio addresses the key stages of the lifecycle of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs. Silect’s CP Studio product addresses key stages of the lifecycle of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Packs used for desired configuration monitoring.

www.verdiem.com

Verdiem’s SURVEYORTM software provides measurable energy and cost savings through network-level control over PC and monitor power set-tings and comprehensive reporting. SURVEYOR maximizes energy savings without interfering with end-user productivity or IT mainte-nance, saving up to $60 per PC annually while reducing organizations’ carbon footprint.