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Microsoft System Center handles data center management

Hilary Cotter, Contributor
06.02.2008
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Service provider takeaway: Service providers can turn to Microsoft System Center to help customers ease data center management challenges in areas such as capacity planning, automation, configuration, backup and virtualization.

Data center management is a very complex process. Data centers need to provide high availability with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Distributed applications such as Web or application servers require load balancing and a middle-tier/business logic layer atop another set of servers that communicate with a relational database management system (RDBMS). Not only are data centers complex, they are increasingly expensive to operate, with rising energy costs one of the most significant contributors to overall operating costs. Finally, managing the hardware and software for infrastructure is no small feat. In fact, the biggest expense in managing such systems is the salaries of the IT professionals managing your enterprise; making that job easier can contain or even reduce data center-related costs.

Microsoft's System Center data center management suite addresses these issues in a number of ways, with modules for capacity planning, configuration management, backup, software and hardware monitoring, and virtualization management.

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Center, let's talk in more detail about the problems and needs around data center management. The challenges are:

Microsoft System Center can help you and your customers meet these data center management challenges. The components of Windows System Center are:

Microsoft has also bundled versions of the above products into System Center Essentials 2007, which is intended for smaller enterprises with 30 or fewer servers and fewer than 500 clients.

It's clear that handling data center management tasks for a large IT infrastructure is a very complex undertaking and requires considerable IT resources. Microsoft System Center maximizes the use of these hardware and software resources, as well as your customer's IT staff.

About the author
Hilary Cotter has been involved in IT for more than 20 years as a Web and database consultant. Microsoft first awarded Cotter the Microsoft SQL Server MVP award in 2001. Cotter received his bachelor of applied science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto and subsequently studied economics at the University of Calgary and computer science at UC Berkeley. He is the author of a book on SQL Server transactional replication and is currently working on books on merge replication and Microsoft search technologies.

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