News and Reviews

CIO Magazine (June 9, 2008) Clearchannel's IT organization manages the entire platform—750 servers in the data center, and another 500 to 600 spread out at other locations—from one central location with the Microsoft System Center family of products.

Windows IT Pro (April 29, 2008) Groundbreaking announcements at the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 reveal the company's plans to embrace competition while demonstrating the value proposition of a unified management infrastructure.

eChannelLine Daily News (April 29, 2008) Microsoft Corp. announced technology innovations that are designed to expand the company's virtualization capabilities and introduced its use of open source technologies and industry standards to broaden its ability to deliver automated management of heterogeneous IT environments.

IDG News Service (April 29, 2008) Microsoft is releasing beta technology for products in its System Center suite that allows the software to natively manage Linux and Unix environments as well as systems virtualized by VMware's ESX virtualization technology.

Network World (April 29, 2008) Microsoft Tuesday said it plans to become a major management platform vendor to battle the likes of CA and HP and said it would extend its System Center software to encompass Linux and Unix-based machines.

eWeek (April 29, 2008) The company looks to bridge the divide with the open-source community through Operations Manager enhancements.

DevX.com (Feb 1, 2008) Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 turns the efficient deployment of servers into a straightforward, automated process, and can also be used to manage configuration changes and system updates.

Enterprise IT Planet.com (Nov 13, 2007) System Center Configuration Manager provides a centralized environment to deploy and provision operating systems and settings, deploy software and application updates, and perform asset inventory and evaluations.

eWeek (April 25, 2007) Microsoft claims it has the tool for deploying Vista: System Center Configuration Manager 2007. eWEEK Labs tests show that its indeed a tool for deploying Vista, but not the only one that should be considered.

Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog (April 29, 2008) Extending the monitoring capabilities of Operations Manager 2007 to HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environments, the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Beta is available for immediate download. 

InformIT (March 7, 2008) Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) is a monitoring and operations management system, implemented using one or more computers that perform their assigned roles as components of a management group.

Computer Business Review (Mar 3, 2008) Syntax Integration, an IT support and outsourcing specialist, has selected Microsoft System Center Operations Manager software for its outsourced IT, infrastructure management and monitoring service, SyntaxOne.

TechTarget.com (April 1, 2008) In two other recent blogs, I took a quick look at the Hyper-V Manager and the simple creation of a virtual machine. Also on SearchServerVirtualization.com, fellow contributor Anil Desai gave advice on using the Hyper-V Manager. Now we’ll take a closer look at System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Tech News World (March 20, 2008) Battling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a "feature-complete" version of its Hyper-V product.

ZDNet.uk (February 28, 2008) Virtual machine management is rapidly becoming a real issue, especially where large numbers of physical and virtual machines are involved. Microsoft's solution is Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (VMM 2007) offering centralised setup, monitoring and management of virtual machines across multiple hosts.

4sysops.com (October 31, 2007) Now that I have taken a closer look at Microsoft’s new management tool for Virtual Server,  I must admit that VMM made me see Virtual Server with different eyes. A good user interface completely changes the perception of a product.

PC Pro (March 12, 2008) Verdict: System Center Essentials sets out to gather the strands of network system management into one place, and succeeds. Allowing for the licensing costs, SCE could save money by allowing technical support staff to make better use of their time.

Computerworld (April 4, 2008) One new bit of code in Windows Mobile 6.1 makes this otherwise minor release of Microsoft Corp.'s handheld operating system a watershed for enterprise users. The new code contains hooks into Microsoft 's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM), a new server application that is the first major effort by the company to make handhelds as manageable and secure as PCs.