System Center Essentials 2010 Beta Released

Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 (Essentials 2010) will be Microsoft’s second release of an IT systems management product specifically designed for the midsized business. The reality is that in Ireland, almost all organizations fall into the scope that System Center Essentials offers, but few if any organizations consider the value it offers in comparison to the full System Center Suite. This value increases with the next release as Essentials 2010 will offer integration of physical and virtual server management and monitoring into one product and one console. Essentials 2010:

• Provides a unified solution with a single console for managing a broad range of tasks across your servers (virtual and physical), clients, hardware, software, and IT services for a unified experience.

• Enables you to proactively manage your IT environment, helping keep your system up-to-date with a solution that accelerates problem resolution and enables automation of system updates and data collection.

• Is easier to deploy and maintain helping simplify complex management tasks for increased IT efficiency.

The following screenshot shows the Essentials 2010 console.

 

Download the Beta of SCE 2010 Today!

New Investments for Essentials 2010

Read on for a look at some of the specific improvements planned for Essentials 2010.

Unified Experience

• Integration of virtualization management, including live migration

• Automated computer grouping

• Server management limit increased to 50

Proactive Management

• Automated management of updates and installation deadlines

• Improved software distribution targeting

• Dynamic importation of monitoring management packs

Increased Efficiency

• Quick provisioning of new virtual machines

• Easy server conversions from physical-to-virtual

• Intelligent placement of virtual workloads

 

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