Dynamic IT Management with Microsoft® System Center the GOAL: DYNAMIC IT MANAGEMENT

Dynamic IT Management with Microsoft® System Center THE GOAL: DYNAMIC IT MANAGEMENT What Is Dynamic IT? Microsoft® System Center solutions help IT pros manage the physical and virtual Dynamic IT is Microsoft’s long-term strategy for providing critical technologies that enable IT and development organizations to information technology (IT) environments across data centers, desktops, and become more strategic to their businesses. A dynamic infrastructure is Microsoft’s vision for what an agile business looks like—a business in which IT works closely with business to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and adaptable environment. Dynamic IT is devices. Using these integrated and automated management solutions, IT Microsoft’s technology strategy for products and solutions that help businesses enhance the dynamic capability of their people, processes, organizations can be more productive service providers to their businesses. and IT infrastructures. System Center’s Role in Dynamic IT With the strongest partner ecosystem, the most compelling licensing model, Microsoft System Center solutions play a central role in Microsoft’s vision for helping IT organizations benefi t from self-managing, dynamic systems. System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge and the best economics, System Center solutions provide a low total cost of 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. ownership (TCO) and a high return on investment (ROI). The functionality and 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, economics of System Center solutions combine to provide the fastest time to System Center solutions close the gap between development, operations, and IT—connecting people, processes, and tools—by evaluating dependencies and optimizing business process performance value while building a more agile IT infrastructure. from deep inside the operating system, applications, and composite services and workfl ows. DELIVERING BUSINESS VALUE With Microsoft System Center solutions, IT pros have the power to • Integrated technologies. System Center solutions leverage the Management of Physical and Virtual IT Environments Knowledge-Driven Management more effectively and easily manage all the components that defi ne IT, management technologies and instrumentation available in the Virtualization technologies are becoming increasingly prominent as Today’s management solutions need to be easily customized solutions allowing them to focus more on delivering new business value for the core platform, including the latest Microsoft Windows® operating IT organizations move toward a more logical environment. However, based on business need, capture best practices and processes to organization. System Center solutions provide integrated management systems: Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008. System Center virtualization also increases the complexity of managing applications ensure service level agreement (SLA) delivery, and automate repetitive of all aspects of IT infrastructures in physical and virtual environments, solutions use these management technologies and instrumentation and services. System Center solutions provide a single process by which management tasks. System Center solutions include embedded using knowledge-driven management guidance to help organizations to collect more monitoring information and provide tighter control IT pros can manage both physical and virtual IT environments using knowledge based on industry standards and allow IT pros to add realize the value of their investment faster than ever. over operating system confi guration and compliance. In addition, the same management consoles and tools, enabling IT pros to manage organization-specifi c knowledge. Together, these sources of knowledge System Center solutions are optimized to simplify management complexity and reduce overall costs. System Center solutions do this help IT pros adapt to infrastructure changes by providing management Integrated Solutions from Desktop to Data Center of the systems and applications the organization has already by providing: solutions that are: implemented, including Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS), Managing IT resources using multiple management solutions • Seamless end-to-end management. System Center solutions • Knowledge-driven best practices. System Center solutions Microsoft SQL Server® 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2005, the increases the complexity of completing day-to-day management provide a consistent management experience regardless of whether capture and aggregate knowledge about infrastructure, policies, 2007 Microsoft Offi ce system, and Microsoft .NET applications. tasks and increases operating costs. System Center solutions provide the applications, services, or operating systems are running in a processes, and best practices so that the IT organization can be an integrated, extensible platform for managing IT resources so that • Cross-platform integration and interoperability. System Center physical or virtual environment. more productive and deliver the level of services needed to support IT pros can be more productive and effi cient. To provide end-to-end solutions provide a centralized management solution for monitoring the business. Solution Accelerators, Management Packs, and • Common management methodology. System Center solutions management of mission-critical applications and IT services, IT must cross-platform environments, such as Linux and UNIX, in addition to Confi guration Packs build on this knowledge to provide prescriptive allow IT pros to manage their virtual environments with the same MICROSOFT SYSTEM manage all aspects of IT infrastructures. From the desktops managing different hypervisor technologies, including non-Windows knowledge, templates, and automated in-line tasks. management tools, process, procedures, and level of specifi city “More than half of Dell’s CENTER DELIVERS that users work on daily to the server computers in data virtualization environments such as VMware. System Center solutions BUSINESS VALUE centers, System Center solutions offer such they use for managing physical environments, down to the • Rich in operational guidance. This solution includes operational Phy also offer connectors leveraging open standards such as Web $57 billion in annual r sic end-to-end management application level. guidance based on the IT Information Library (ITIL) and the Microsoft te a Services for Management (WS-Management) that interoperate and sales come through n l a by providing: Operations Framework (MOF) so that IT pros can assess current e n share information with different enterprise management systems • Reduced complexity. System Center solutions integrate the C d IT service management maturity, prioritize processes of greatest a V and help desks. management of virtual workloads with the server and Dell.com. Dell relies on t concern, and apply proven principles and best practices to optimize a ir • Integrated solutions. desktop management infrastructure, so IT can realize the D t • Scalable and extensible data model. System Center solutions are the management of IT infrastructures. System Center solutions u System Center solutions o cost-reduction benefi ts of server consolidation while reducing t a built on a scalable and extensible data model that allows IT pros l are integrated with one overall system complexity. • Highly automated. System Center solutions can play a key role to keep our global p to consistently defi ne, deploy, monitor, and manage IT resources o another to provide a in helping IT achieve operational automation by leveraging and t by using the application programming interfaces (APIs) and e-commerce presence k comprehensive and integrating existing tools and using best-practice processes such s development tools in the software development kits (SDKs) e consistent management as ITIL and MOF. These solutions help IT automate IT processes, and other mission- for each System Center solution. D approach. In addition, such as operating system deployment, software provisioning, task critical systems up System Center solutions sequencing, and data backup and restoration. integrate with Microsoft and running, 24x7.” Core Infrastructure Solutions, including Takis Petropoulos identity, security, database, Senior IT Systems Engineer K and server solutions. Dell n e o lu w a le V d g to e D e r Tim iv e n 2 Microsoft System Center Microsoft System Center 3 SYSTEM CENTER SOLUTIONS Rapid Time to Value Microsoft System Center has developed solutions to help enable Confi guration Management dynamic IT organizations. System Center desktop solutions enable Case Study Organizations must closely control ongoing management costs in their • Build the strongest partner community. System Center partners The System Center data center confi guration management solution IT organizations to empower users by streamlining the connection Carnival Cruise Lines IT environment and realize their investment value sooner by leveraging provide custom service templates and management applications provides centralized, automated software provisioning, updating, and of any authorized user to any application, regardless of their location World’s largest cruise line increases the right expertise, guidance, and support from industry

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