Microsoft has announced some great changes to the licensing and deployment model of the System Center suite.  The System Center is a fully integrated suite of tools which manage all aspects of delivering IT services.  They are licensed together to provide a single integrated set of capabilities, similar to how Microsoft is licensing Office vs. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint separately.  The tools are powerful individually, but together they create integration that is unmatched.

The two new licensing models are the System Center Standard and Datacenter.  The System Center Datacenter license provides unlimited “Operating System Environments” (OSEs).  The System Center Standard license provides the suite for two OSEs and is intended for physical, or lightly virtualized branch environments.

Overview of the System Center Licensing Models:

Microsoft System Center 2012 Details

System Center 2012 solutions provide complete management from the desktop to the datacenter.

Using integrated and automated management solutions, you can capture and aggregate 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.

Here is an overview of the new features in the System Center suite!

More information:

•  Microsoft Private Cloud Site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx
•  Come check it out at MMS: http://www.mms-2012.com/
• Download the Private Cloud overview: http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_EAC=300035806

Happy managing!

Nathan Lasnoski

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