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System Center
Overview
Microsoft System Center plays a
central role in the Microsoft vision to help IT
organizations benefit from self-managing,
dynamic systems. System Center solutions 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.
System Center solutions are tuned
to simplify management of the systems and
applications your company already has
implemented, including Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Exchange Server, the Microsoft Office
system, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. In
addition, System Center solutions interoperate
with third-party management tools so you can
make the most of your existing investments and
build on the System Center foundation with
confidence. Already used by the majority of
Fortune 500 companies, System Center solutions
provide the reliability, scalability, and
security required to manage the most
mission-critical IT systems, applications, and
services.
With an aim to enable
self-managing dynamic systems, System Center
solutions close the gap between development,
operations, and IT by evaluating dependencies
and optimizing business process performance from
deep inside the operating system, applications,
and composite services and workflows. These
solutions also provide comprehensive management
of physical and virtual environments, resulting
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Benefits of
System Center
Independent research shows
that a well-managed IT environment improves an
enterprise’s bottom line and productivity.*
Using the System Center family of solutions, you
can connect your organization’s people,
processes, and tools across your development and
operating environments. As a result, you can
optimize your IT infrastructure and more
effectively and easily manage all of its
components, thus allowing you to focus more on
delivering new business value for your
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Fuel Productivity
With System Center solutions, IT professionals
can quickly and easily perform complex tasks.
For example, the solutions enable
knowledge-driven IT management and rapid problem
resolution by providing comprehensive support
and diagnostic information for Windows Server
and client operating systems, Active Directory
directory services, and the Microsoft Office
system. In addition, IT professionals can access
products and tools that simplify customization
tasks and help them to effortlessly find
information about your IT infrastructure—making
it easy to identify, catalog, and report on
software assets throughout your organization.
Best Choice for Windows
The System Center family integrates with the
systems you already have in place, including
Windows Vista and Microsoft SharePoint Products
and Technologies. Get comprehensive, built-in
information for managing your Windows systems
and workloads—expertise that comes directly from
the Microsoft development team—and extend the
value of the System Center family with add-ons
from a vibrant partner community. Finally,
implement a familiar, scalable solution that
enables you to manage the smallest hardware
component; the most complex service-oriented,
architecture-based IT services; and anything
in-between.
Enterprise-Strength
Management
Achieve the enterprise-class reliability,
scalability, and security necessary to manage
the largest, most complex infrastructure—all
with a solution that most Fortune 500 companies
use. Implement management servers that can scale
to accommodate any size organization and
automate tasks to help simplify the discovery of
system vulnerabilities and the distribution of
security updates. In addition, deliver
consistent, reliable, accessible services, and
use modeling and application virtualization
capabilities to minimize the risk of new
application deployments.
Foundation for Growth
Keep pace as your infrastructure grows and
changes by taking advantage of the extensible
architecture of the System Center family.
Centrally and virtually manage your entire IT
environment to help achieve operational agility,
optimize resource usage, and make the most of
your IT economics. Access best practices based
on industry standards to help deliver
high-quality service each and every time, in
addition to a flexible and scalable data model
that allows you to consistently define, deploy,
monitor, and manage your IT resources.
Microsoft System Center—A Family
of Leading IT Management Solutions
Enterprise IT departments need
solutions that support performance and
availability monitoring, software updates and
deployment, data storage and recovery, IT
reporting, and problem, capacity, and operations
management. The System Center family encompasses
leading IT management solutions that accommodate
all of these needs.
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System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
2007 (formerly known as Microsoft Operations
Manager), affords you a comprehensive,
overall view of the health of your IT
environment. Track thousands of event and
performance monitors across hundreds of
operating systems and applications. In
addition, get best-of-breed, end-to-end
service management for the Windows platform
and access to more than 50 management packs
for various Microsoft software applications.
Finally, automate routine, redundant tasks
to increase efficiency and enable greater
control of your IT environment. |
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System Center Configuration Manager
Microsoft System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 (formerly known as Microsoft
System Management Server) drives IT
productivity and efficiency by reducing
manual tasks and enabling you to focus on
high-value projects, maximize hardware and
software investments, and empower end-user
productivity with the right software at the
right time. Configuration Manager
contributes to a more effective IT
department by enabling secure and scalable
operating system and application deployment
and desired configuration management,
enhancing system security, and providing
comprehensive asset management of servers,
desktops, and mobile devices. |
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System Center Data Protection Manager
Microsoft System Center Data Protection
Manager 2006 optimizes and speeds disk-based
backup and recovery, delivers consistent
data protection, and increases your IT
organization’s operational efficiencies. For
example, recover information quickly by
copying content from a production server and
speed data recovery with always-accessible
disks. Data Protection Manager also supports
near-continuous data protection with
centralized backup of branch offices and
backup enhancements within the data center.
Finally, help lower the total cost of your
data-protection environment by consolidating
backup efforts at the data center,
empowering end users to perform their own
recoveries, and implementing out-of-the-box
reporting and monitoring functionality. |
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System Center Essentials
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a
proactive, unified management solution that
enables IT professionals in your midsize
organization to more efficiently secure,
update, monitor, and troubleshoot your IT
environments. Essentials 2007 provides a
unified solution to help optimize a broad
set of tasks across your entire IT
environment and a single console from which
you can view and manage all of your servers,
clients, hardware, software, and IT
services. In addition, Essentials 2007 helps
you proactively monitor your IT environment,
simplifies complex management tasks, and
automates system updates and data collection
for your IT environment. The end result is a
more efficient, secure, and up-to-date IT
environment. |
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager 2007 is a stand-alone management
application for a virtual data center.
Virtual Machine Manager increases use of
your physical server, allows you to
centrally and virtually manage your
infrastructure, and lets both administrators
and end users rapidly provision new virtual
machines. |
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System Center Capacity Planner
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner
2006 is a predeployment, capacity-planning
solution that provides best-practice
guidance, hardware-specific knowledge, and
"what if" scenario planning. For example,
with Capacity Planner you can make solid
architecture decisions as you plan to deploy
Exchange Server 2003 or Operations Manager,
plan ahead for IT purchases, and receive
automated reports to proactively manage
current and future performance issues. |
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