Specializations › Optimization and management of IT infrastructure › IT service monitoring systems
The family of Microsoft System Center products plays the central role in the efforts of Microsoft Corporation to help IT organizations to obtain advantages from the usage of self-controlled, dynamic systems. The System Center solutions accumulate and systematize the knowledge on infrastructure, policies, processes and advanced methods, helping the IT department to create controllable systems and automate operations in order to cut expenses, increase readiness of applications and widen the scope of rendered services.
The products competing with Microsoft System Center are products HP Open View and IBM Tivoli. They possess some advantages when used in complex infrastructures and are significantly costlier, but in respect to IT media built on Microsoft products, solutions based on System Center are beyond competition.
The Microsoft System Center family comprises the following products:
System Center Operation Manager – provides open and scalable means for controlling information systems of enterprises, complex management of events, active control and notification, reporting and analyzing tendencies, as well as special knowledge bases that contain information on functioning of systems and applications for increasing controllability of corporate systems.
System Center Configuration Manager – a complex solution for managing configuration changes.
System Center Data Protection Manager – a facility for backupping servers and applications.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager – a facility for managing the infrastructure of virtual machines.
System Center Essentials – a complex facility for monitoring and controlling servers and workstations at medium-size enterprises (up to 500 PC).
System Center Service Manager – a facility developed for Help Desk services.
System Center Mobile Device Manager – a facility for mobile device (smartphones, PDA, communicators) administration.
System Center Capacity Planner – makes it possible to calculate the server configuration before deployment.
The implementation of the System Center 2007 products is rather difficult and labor-consuming task that requires thorough planning and analysis of the enterprise infrastructure. VERNA is experiences in the implementation of these products, as well as their previous versions MOM 2005 and SMS 2003, migration from MOM 2005 to SCOM 2007 and from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.
You can contact our specialists online and get the consultation