Marketing description

Cloud computing can potentially transform how you deliver datacenter services to your business from an agility and operational efficiency perspective. By pooling virtualized datacenter resources, you can take a standardized self-service approach and dynamically provision and scale applications while only paying for what you use. While offering the potential for many benefits, virtualization and cloud computing can also lead to increased IT complexity.
System Center 2012 helps you deliver flexible and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model while carrying forward your existing datacenter investments. Recognizing that applications run your business, System Center 2012 offers deep application insight combined with a service-centric approach that helps you deliver predictable application services.

Key selling points

• Flexible and cost-effective infrastructure
• Predictable application SLA
• Physical, virtual and cloud management on your terms

Product features

• Productive infrastructure
  Deliver flexible and cost-effective infrastructure using what you already know and own. System Center 2012 helps you integrate heterogeneous datacenter investments, including multi-hypervisor environments. You can pool and abstract your datacenter resources and deliver self-service infrastructure to your business units in a flexible yet controlled manner.
• Predictable applications
  Applications power your business. Deliver predictable application service levels with deep application insight. System Center 2012 enables you to holistically manage your application services, which is where your core business value resides.
• Your cloud
  Private and public cloud computing managed with a common toolset. System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms, with common management experiences across both.