Today’s enterprises rely on servers for nearly all facets of business. As the backbone of all line of business workloads, such as email systems, corporate websites, databases, customer relationship management and more, servers are a key to nonstop business operation. As such, IT departments face continued pressure to increase server availability and service levels. However, managing datacenter and distributed servers is a complex IT challenge—server infrastructures are constantly evolving as new operating systems, new applications, advances in storage technology, and escalating security threats accelerate the rate of change.
With System Center Configuration Manager 2007, you get a comprehensive solution to assess, deploy, and update Windows servers, clients, and mobile devices across physical and virtual environments. Using policy-based automation, you can centrally manage the entire IT lifecycle of your datacenter and distributed servers—from new server deployments to operating system and application updates—while improving the availability, reliability, and security of servers enterprise-wide.
Configuration Manager 2007 provides for the unique requirements of managing your datacenter and distributed servers, by automating the deployment, configuration, partition management, driver management, and network configuration management of Windows-based servers. What’s more, you gain enhanced insight and control over the servers in your enterprise, which assists you with capacity and upgrade planning, and helps you proactively manage compliance with configuration standards.
