One corporate user told Microsoft officials that his shop did not intend to deploy SP4 because "we have assessed the risk to be too high, " and had created a Systems Management Server package of year-2000 fixes that were issued after SP3.
The key offerings are in the server management services and system oriented architecture.
The idea of a central management console for all server and desktop administration tools is a complete change for NT users and should give managers greater control over more NT resources.
However, because of the maturity of their technology and management infrastructure, mainframe and Unix server deployments are able to run at higher utilization levels.
Fortunately, much as virtualization enabled companies to improve their server utilization, new cloud management tools enable companies to optimize their public cloud usage, improving utilization and reducing cost.
The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.
The question that remains is whether or not this proposed NDS integration will be as complete as Cisco's ongoing work to incorporate Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server-based Active Directory into its hardware management software.
One of the features buried inside the release notes for Server 2012 is Centralized SSL Certificate (CSC) management.
FORBES: Apparently Microsoft Doesn't Know How Microsoft Software Works
Growing businesses find that a server set-up provides more control over file management, sharing, back-up and security, plus efficiency when adding people.
As this move to server virtualization transpired, a coinciding evolution in IT management capabilities needed to occur and we at Microsoft began delivering this years ago with the Microsoft System Center suite, adapting the tools to provide the same management experience across your physical and virtual environments.
Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.
For Microsoft customers, the great news is that we acknowledged this shift several years ago and began laying the foundation for it with our investments in public cloud offerings such as Windows Azure and by integrating private cloud technologies into our existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization and System Center IT management offerings.
With revenue per server and absolute demand increasing and the ability to lease the facility, management views the risk of stranded capital for the data center is reduced.
Or bring along your BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator so he can try to prove our contention, that deploying a mobile device management solution such as Sybase Afaria can match or top BES for security, is flat-out wrong .
FORBES: What CIOs Think About Enterprise Mobility...(webinar)
Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
FORBES: AMD SeaMicro Disaggregation: A Threat to Facebook's OCP?
应用推荐