System Center Products
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.
Core Products
System Center
Configuration Manager R2
System Center Configuration Manager* comprehensively assesses, deploys,
and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical,
virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and
extensible, it is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into and
control over IT systems.
System Center
Operations Manager
System Center Operations Manager* is the end-to-end service-management
product that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly
with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase
efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment.
System Center
Data Protection Manager
System Center 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. System Center Data Protection Manager enables rapid and reliable
recovery through advanced technology for organizations of all sizes.
System Center
Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 enables customers to configure and
deploy new virtual machines and centrally manage physical and virtual
infrastructure from one console. New to this version of VMM is
multi-vendor virtualization platform support, Performance and Resource
Optimization (PRO) and enhanced support of “high availability” host
clusters, among other new features.
System Center
Essentials
System Center Essentials is specifically designed for midsize businesses
(up to 500 client computers and 30 servers). System Center Essentials
provides a unified management product that enables IT pros in midsize
organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased
efficiency.
Other System Center Products
System Center
Capacity Planner
System Center Capacity Planner is a pre-deployment capacity-planning and
post-deployment change-analysis solution for Microsoft Server offerings,
including Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and
Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and soon, System Center Operations
Manager). It provides the tools and guidance to deploy servers
efficiently while planning for the future by allowing for “what-if“
analyses.
System Center
Mobile Device Manager
System Center Mobile Device Manager is a flexible, end-to-end product
for single-point access of LOB applications and corporate data on
Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. System Center Mobile Device Manager provides
secure access to sensitive corporate data on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices
in a seamless manner, resulting in a positive user experience.
System Center
Service Manager (Beta)
A new Microsoft System Center product, System Center Service Manager is
being designed to meet the needs of the modern IT help desk. By
providing powerful new capabilities for incident, problem, asset, and
change management, System Center Service Manager will support
organizations as they seek to improve the service they provide to their
users.
Related Products
Microsoft Application Virtualization
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (formerly SoftGrid Application
Virtualization) allows the flexibility to control virtual application
interaction. Administrators wanting to consolidate virtual environments
and enable faster, easier administration can use the product’s Dynamic
Suite Composition, which sequences and manages packages for middleware
applications separately from the main application.
Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack
Windows Vista Enterprise, combined with technologies such as the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and flexible licensing
options, provides powerful tools that help you optimize your
organization's desktop infrastructure while enabling increased
flexibility, centralizing security, and streamlining deployment, helping
to provide greater productivity to users.
Systems
Management Server
Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 R2 builds upon the base of the SMS
2003 SP2 foundation to provide a comprehensive solution for change and
configuration management for the Microsoft platform. SMS 2003 R2 enables
organizations to quickly and cost-effectively provide relevant software
and updates to users from Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors.
* System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise includes Enterprise
Server Management Licenses which provides a complete set of server
management capabilities for application and platform management that
span physical and virtual environments as well as rights to manage an
unlimited number of operating system environments on a single server.
