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Microsoft System Center 2012 Preview

Manage physical and virtual IT environments across datacenters, client computers, and devices

Keep your employees productive, protected and satisfied while giving them the tools they've been waiting for and the infrastructure your organziation needs. Microsoft System Center 2012 will help your organization achieve IT as a Service by enabling productive infrastructure, predictable applications, and cloud computing on your terms with a common management experience. You can deliver flexible and cost effective private cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model, while carrying forward your existing datacenter investments. Recognizing that applications run your business, System Center 2012 products offer deep application insight combined with a service-centric approach that helps you deliver predictable application services.

System Center solutions help you manage your physical and virtual IT environments across datacenters, desktops, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management solutions, you can be a more productive service provider for your business. System Center captures and aggregates knowledge about systems, policies, processes, and best practices so that you can optimize your infrastructure to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

Learn more about the available System Center 2012 pre-release products:

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Consumerization is a growing challenge for IT organizations. The boundaries between work and life have blurred, and people expect consistent access to corporate services from wherever they are, on any device they’re using, whether it be desktops, laptops, smart phones or slates.

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager acknowledges and embraces this, making it easier to empower the modern user to be productive. It provides a unified infrastructure that delivers and manages physical and virtual operating systems and applications across both corporate and consumer devices, while still maintaining corporate compliance and control.

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System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

Built on System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Endpoint Protection provides industry-leading threat detection of malware and exploits as part of a unified infrastructure for managing client security and compliance that can help you simplify and improve endpoint protection.

It gives administrators:

• Consolidated tools, processes, and infrastructure to create new efficiencies and lower desktop ownership costs.
• A unified view of configuration and security information that makes it easier to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

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System Center App Controller 2012

The System Center App Controller offers a simple way for the datacenter administrator to delegate to application owners control of their applications and virtual machines. It offers a simple, self-service experience for building applications and gives application owners greater visibility into their services, virtual machines, and the clouds they run on. This frees datacenter administrators to concentrate on managing the infrastructure and enables application owners to focus on running their services rather than servers.

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System Center Service Manager 2012

The System Center Service Manager provides flexible self-service experience and standardized datacenter processes that can help you integrate people, workflows, and knowledge across enterprise infrastructure and applications.

• Publish and consume standardized IT service offerings
• Enables self-service requests for private cloud infrastructure
• Delivers self-service business intelligence
• Enables compliance and standardization
• Deep integration with System Center components
• Facilitates IT GRC commitments
• Provides process workflows built on industry best practices
• Offers closed-loop change and release management

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

The Virtual Machine Manager provides virtual machine management and services deployment with support for multi-hypervisor environments that can help you deliver a flexible and cost effective private cloud environment.

Virtual Machine Manager allows you to apply cloud principles to provisioning and servicing your datacenter applications with techniques like service modeling, service configuration and image based management. You can also state-separate your applications and services from the underlying infrastructure using server application virtualization. This results in a “service centric” approach to management where you manage the application or service lifecycle and not just datacenter infrastructure or virtual machines.

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System Center Orchestrator 2012

Orchestrator provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes through the creation of runbooks that can help you to define and standardize best practices and improve operational efficiency.

• Optimizes existing datacenter investments by integrating, extending, and interoperating with heterogeneous tools and systems.
• Helps you deliver flexible and reliable datacenter services by orchestrating process workflows across multidisciplinary process silos.
• Lowers costs and improves predictability by automating your Microsoft private cloud scenarios to reduce errors.

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System Center Operations Manager 2012

The Operations Manager provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of your datacenter, private, and public clouds.

• Delivers flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, configurations, and heterogeneous environments.
• Helps to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET and JEE application performance monitoring and diagnostics.
• Provides a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

A critical part of Microsoft private cloud infrastructures, Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine.

Data Protection Manager provides unified data protection for Windows servers and clients that can help you deliver scalable, manageable, and cost-effective protection and restore scenarios from disk, tape, and off premise.

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The Benefits of Microsoft SC 2012

System Center 2012 will help you confidently deliver IT as a Service for your business, with values driving these solutions based upon:

Productive Infrastructure
System Center 2012 helps you integrate heterogeneous datacenter investments, including multi-hypervisor environments. You can pool and abstract your datacenter resources and deliver self-service infrastructure to your business units in a flexible yet controlled manner.

Predictable Applications
System Center 2012 enables you to holistically manage your application services, which is where your core business value resides. Apps power your business. Deliver predictable application service levels with deep application insight.

Your Cloud
System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms through common management experiences, flexible delegation and control, and self-service applications across clouds.