Microsoft Gears Up For Cloud Management Launch

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Author: John Duckgeischel on January 18, 2012 - 10:13 PM

Microsoft’s New System Center suite is being positioned as an enterprise data center Windows Server central management console, but also workload management of Windows Azure public cloud and on-premise cloud resources. As a result, System Center 2012, which is slated for the first half of 2012 will take on competitive system management offerings from CA Technologies, BMC software, HP and IBM. The primary target for Microsoft however is clearly VMware, which extended its offerings in the systems management segment with the introduction of its vCenter Operations in March of 2011. VMware and Microsoft both contend that virtual machine management is the most important single element for workload cloud management and data center operations.

The new System Center 2012 moves into a general purpose role going beyond Windows data center administration to manage Linux servers, as well as adding the Virtual Machine Management functionality for VMware ESX Servers, Citrix Systems Xen Servers and Microsoft’s own Hyper-V. In effect System Center 2012 has become a cross hypervisor management system. The new version now enables virtualized servers to be managed in a highly automated fashion. As a result the private cloud management allows end users to self-provision virtual servers, with IT overseeing billing charge backs to the appropriate departments.