Microsoft System Center solutions play a central role in Microsoft's long term vision for helping IT organizations benefit from self-managing, user-centric, 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.

These integrated and automated management solutions enable IT organizations to be more productive service providers to their businesses. Aiming to enable self-managing, dynamic systems, System Center solutions close the gap between development, operations, and IT—connecting people, processes, and tools—by evaluating dependencies and optimizing business process performance from deep inside the operating system, applications, and composite services and workflows in both physical and virtual environments.

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. Download the free trials today.

System Center data solutions bring together the capabilities that help you reduce the cost of server and datacenter management.

Configuration Manager comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments.

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.

Essentials 2010 RTM provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations a unified physical and virtual IT management experience.

As a part of the System Center Suite, Opalis provides IT processes automation of incident response, provisioning, virtual lifecycle management and change management. This is achieved through a workflow environment that orchestrates and integrates System Center tools with 3rd party management tools, enabling interoperability and process consistency across the datacenter.

Operations Manager is the end-to-end service-management product works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment.

Service Manager is an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization's IT service management best practices.

Virtual Machine Manager provides a management solution for today's virtualized data center, affording centralized management of the IT infrastructure, increased server utilization capability, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization and physical platforms.

System Center solutions span the desktop to the datacenter. System Center products are generally licensed in the context of those same two categories; with separate licenses available for client and server management. System Center products are available on a standalone basis. However, the simple, cost effective, and flexible way to license System Center solutions for client and server management is through our suite offerings.

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System Center solutions help IT pros manage the physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices. With the strongest partner ecosystem, the most compelling licensing model, and the best economics, System Center solutions provide a low TCO and a high return on investment.

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Microsoft has built a strong platform with System Center that delivers a robust set of functionality to manage your complete IT environment from you’re the desktop to the datacenter. In order to meet more of your specific needs we have enlisted a broad set of partners to extend System Center to provide incremental value to your organization. These Partner solutions plug directly into your existing System Center family of products to provide a native experience allowing you to expand your solutions to cover more technologies, integrate with existing products, or expand the functionality of the core System Center solutions within your IT management infrastructure. Click here to browse through the list of solutions that are available based on the products you have today.