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Partners—Microsoft Systems Center 2016

Stay in control of your IT—across your environment and platforms. Simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software defined data center (SDDC), while increasing agility and performance. Deploy and manage your SDDC with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security. Free up your organization and increase efficiency with automated workflow processes and self—service options. Infrastructure and workload monitoring—diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload, or application issues to maintain reliability and high performance. Improve your IT operations with Microsoft System Center 2016™ solutions that ease the monitoring, automation, and provisioning of your software defined data center. Plus, integrate Microsoft Operations Management Suite™ to get visibility and management in the cloud.Get the insights you need with workload and infrastructure monitoring. Enterprises want a comprehensive infrastructure management solution that can enable multiple benefits, including shared resources and the elasticity to scale up and down on demand to meet changing business needs—thereby minimizing downtime and failures while maximizing cost efficiencies.

Microsoft System Center 2016™ offers a comprehensive set of data center management capabilities. Infrastructure provisioning—seamlessly deploy, configure, and manage your software defined data center infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security. Infrastructure monitoring—diagnose and troubleshoot hardware infrastructure, workload, or application issues before they result in costly downtime or slow performance. Seamlessly deploy, configure, and manage your software defined data center infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security. Plus, take advantage of cloud ready Microsoft Windows Server 2016™ capabilities—including Nano Servers, shielded virtual machines, and efficient, software defined networking and storage solutions. Today’s organizations are adopting hybrid cloud to extend their IT infrastructure for better flexibility and scalability, while ensuring the compliance and stability of their workloads. The hybrid cloud model. A Microsoft™ hybrid cloud lets you easily move workloads from your data center to Microsoft Azure™ or a service provider’s data center, while still maintaining a view of the infrastructure.

 

Unified Data Center And Cloud Management

Microsoft System Center 2016™ delivers a unified experience for data center and cloud management to help customers modernize their apps and data centers. With Microsoft System Center 2016™ tools, you can effectively manage virtual environments for on premises and cloud; monitor health and performance; support service level agreements; automate tasks; and protect your data. Provision and manage enterprise resources—including physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure—to meet different business requirements. Get business workload scalability, high availability, and performance across single or multiple tenants with Microsoft System Center 2016™ provisioning capabilities on a heterogeneous platform. This includes provisioning of compute, storage, and network resources. Effectively manage virtual environments at scale.  A top of mind customer requirement is around virtualizing top—tier applications. Microsoft™ continuously contributes to taking open source software (OSS) support to the next level. Microsoft System Center 2016™ provides the ability to provision Linux™ VMs on Microsoft Hyper—V™ and on Microsoft Azure™ with a single console.

Microsoft Azure Management

Microsoft  System Center 2016™ is a unified solution to provision and manage virtual machines running within the data center or the Microsoft  Azure™ environment. It also enables the migration of virtual machines from on premises to Microsoft Azure™ infrastructure. With Microsoft Data Protection Manager™ (DPM), Microsoft System Center 2016™ provides migration of on premises physical and virtual machines to the cloud for retention and disaster recovery. Data backed up to DPM can be stored on tape, on disk, or backed up to Azure with Microsoft Azure Backup™. 50% savings on backup storage (1.6 PB to 850TB) Microsoft System Center 2016™. Microsoft provides unified provisioning and management of virtual machines across the on premises or Microsoft Azure™ environment. Microsoft System Center 2016™ provides insights into both the infrastructure and application levels. It offers monitoring for workloads deployed in either Windows Server or non—Microsoft Windows Server™ environments. In addition, Microsoft Operations Manager™ offers built—in management packs for monitoring Microsoft Windows Server™ infrastructure and cross—platform infrastructure resources.

Features And Benefits

Microsoft System Center 2016™ continues to provide a unified tool to manage on premises and Microsoft Azure™ deployments, including migrating workloads between the two. Extension of familiar management to Microsoft™ enterprise class performance—Microsoft System Center 2016™ delivers best of breed management for Microsoft Windows Server™ environments by supporting key scale and performance metrics delivered by Microsoft Windows Server™. Higher resource utilization with 92% fewer updates, and 80% fewer reboots. In addition, Microsoft System Center™ supports heterogeneous deployments, such as full Dynamic Memory support for Linux™ virtual machines (VMs). Simplified provisioning and migration with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager™ (VMM), Microsoft System Center 2016™ helps customers reduce infrastructure complexity by supporting file based storage deployments that are based on industry standard storage hardware. Microsoft™ is enabling faster deployments of Microsoft System Center™ by providing service templates for components. Being able to deploy on industry—standard commodity hardware—storage savings.