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With Microsoft System Center solutions, IT pros have the power to more effectively and easily manage all the components that define IT, allowing them to focus more on delivering new business value for the organization.
System Center solutions provide integrated management of all aspects of IT infrastructures in physical and virtual environments, using knowledge-driven management guidance to help organizations realize the value of their investment faster than ever.
With the strongest partner ecosystem, the most compelling licensing model, and the best economics, System Center solutions provide a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and a high return on investment (ROI). The functionality and economics of System Center solutions combine to provide the fastest time to value while building a more agile IT infrastructure.
Microsoft System Center solutions provide an integrated, extensible platform for managing IT resources so that IT pros can be more productive and efficient.
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Managing IT resources by using multiple management solutions increases the complexity of completing day-to-day management tasks and increases operating costs. Microsoft System Center solutions provide an integrated, extensible platform for managing IT resources so that IT pros can be more productive and efficient. To provide end-to-end management of mission-critical applications and IT services, IT must manage all aspects of IT infrastructures. From the client computers that users work on daily to the server computers in data centers, System Center solutions offer such end-to-end management by providing:
Microsoft System Center solutions are integrated with one another to provide a comprehensive and consistent management approach. In addition, System Center solutions integrate with Microsoft Core Infrastructure solutions, including identity, security, database, and server solutions.
System Center solutions leverage the management technologies and instrumentation available in the core platform, including the latest Windows operating systems: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. System Center solutions use these management technologies and instrumentation to collect more monitoring information and provide tighter control over operating system configuration and compliance. In addition, System Center solutions are optimized to simplify management of the systems and applications the organization has already implemented, including Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2005, the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Microsoft .NET applications.
System Center solutions provide a centralized management solution for monitoring cross-platform environments, such as Linux and UNIX, in addition to managing different hypervisor technologies, including non-Windows virtualization environments such as VMware. System Center solutions also offer connectors leveraging open standards such as Web Services for Management (WS-Management) that interoperate and share information with different enterprise management systems and help desks.
System Center solutions are built on a scalable and extensible data model that allows IT pros to consistently define, deploy, monitor, and manage IT resources by using the application programming interfaces (APIs) and development tools in the software development kits (SDKs) for each System Center solution.
Microsoft System Center solutions provide a single process by which IT pros can manage both physical and virtual IT environments using the same management consoles and tools, enabling IT pros to manage complexity and reduce overall costs.
Virtualization technologies are becoming increasingly prominent in every IT environment. However, virtualization also increases the complexity of managing applications and services. Microsoft System Center solutions provide a single process by which IT pros can manage both physical and virtual IT environments using the same management consoles and tools, enabling IT pros to manage complexity and reduce overall costs. System Center solutions do this by providing:
System Center solutions provide a consistent management experience regardless of whether the applications, services, or operating systems are running in a physical or virtual environment.
System Center solutions allow IT pros to manage their virtual environments with the same management tools, process, procedures, and level of specificity they use for managing physical environments, down to the application level.
System Center solutions integrate the management of virtual workloads with the server and desktop management infrastructure, so IT can realize the cost-reduction benefits of server consolidation while reducing overall system complexity.
Microsoft System Center solutions include embedded knowledge based on industry standards and allow IT pros to add organization-specific knowledge.
Today’s management solutions need to be easily customized solutions based on business need, capture best practices and processes to ensure service level agreement (SLA) delivery, and automate repetitive management tasks. Microsoft System Center solutions include embedded knowledge based on industry standards and allow IT pros to add organization-specific knowledge. Together, these sources of knowledge help IT pros adapt to infrastructure changes by providing management solutions that are:
System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so that the IT organization can be more productive and deliver the level of services needed to support the business. Solution Accelerators, Management Packs, and Configuration Packs build on this knowledge to provide prescriptive knowledge, templates, and automated in-line tasks.
This solution includes operational guidance based on the IT Information Library (ITIL) and the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) so that IT pros can assess current IT service management maturity, prioritize processes of greatest concern, and apply proven principles and best practices to optimize the management of IT infrastructures.
System Center solutions can play a key role in helping IT achieve operational automation by leveraging and integrating existing tools and using best-practice processes such as ITIL and MOF. These solutions help IT automate IT processes, such as operating system deployment, software provisioning, task sequencing, and data backup and restoration.
Microsoft System Center solutions provide a platform that can be implemented quickly and produce results immediately.
Organizations must closely control ongoing management costs in their IT environment and realize their investment value sooner by leveraging the right expertise, guidance, and support from industry vendors and their partners. Microsoft System Center solutions provide a platform that can be implemented quickly and produce results immediately. Organizations can realize the value of their investment more quickly, because System Center solutions help them:
System Center solutions can be deployed and quickly customized to meet the needs of organizations. This allows organizations to use existing Windows-based expertise, thus minimizing the need for extensive retraining of administrators and help desk personnel.
System Center partners provide custom service templates and management applications to extend monitoring capabilities and control of non-Microsoft infrastructures, applications (such as those by SAP, Oracle, or Apache), and operating systems (such as Linux or UNIX).
System Center solutions provide the fastest time to value because of compelling licensing, reduced TCO, prescriptive guidance that relates to the core of IT operations, and solution templates.
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