Marketing description

To compete in the global economy and keep up with the pace of innovation, IT organizations must improve their ability to quickly and flexibly respond to changing business needs, improve efficiency, and better manage costs. Some of the ways to accomplish the following include automation of repeatable tasks, cross-platform interoperability, and the creation and deployment of modern, self-service, and highly available applications that can span datacenters.
System Center 2012 R2 helps you realize your datacenter transformation goals by delivering enterprise-class capabilities including best-in-class management of your Windows Server infrastructure and first-party Microsoft workloads. With SAN-based storage management technologies, you can virtualize even your most demanding workloads. Open and extensible web-based interfaces enable easy integration with your existing investments such as portals. System Center 2012 R2 also focuses on optimizing your applications and workloads through their lifecycle. Rich diagnostics and insight facilitate predictable application SLAs, including the ability to elastically scale applications across clouds.

Key selling points

• Utilize enterprise-grade management capabilities with best-in-class performance for your Windows Server environments and first-party Microsoft workloads
• Reduce datacenter complexity by simplifying how you provision, manage, and operate your infrastructure
• Enable delivery of predictable application SLAs through a relentless focus on optimizing your applications and workloads

Product features

• Enterprise-class
  Managing a heterogeneous datacenter can often prove complex, inefficient, and costly. System Center 2012 R2 delivers comprehensive enterprise-class management capabilities for your top-tier applications and workloads while seamlessly integrating cloud, service provider, and on-premises environments. With System Center 2012 R2, you can take advantage of best-in-class virtualization-management for Windows Server environments. System Center 2012 R2 delivers multi-hypervisor virtualization-management, including Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix. With full Dynamic Memory support for Linux, System Center 2012 R2 provides robust support for your heterogeneous datacenter workloads. When virtualizing top-tier applications, you need a virtualization platform and management solution that can provide the necessary scale and performance to meet your business requirements. System Center 2012 R2 offers support for virtual machine connectivity into virtual Fiber Channel SAN, enabling IT staffs to virtualize the most demanding workloads and connect them directly to the highest-tier storage platforms. This capability is very useful for organizations that have invested in file and block storage, helping you optimize your investments in SAN storage and other platforms.
• Simple and cost-effective
  With IT budgets shrinking, many companies are looking to reduce their infrastructure complexity and find more efficient ways to manage their datacenters. System Center 2012 R2 simplifies your datacenter environment by helping you more efficiently and effectively provision, manage, and operate infrastructure services. Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces support enhances administrative productivity and operational efficiency by offering bare metal provisioning and cluster creation of scale-out file server clusters, discovery of physical disks, and creation of storage pools and file shares. Standards-based top-of-rack network switch configuration transforms your datacenter by abstracting storage, compute, and network resources from their underlying physical hardware, helping you manage them in a more standardized manner. System Center 2012 R2 offers extensible service management automation and integration that helps service providers and enterprise IT respond to tenant and business needs faster, more efficiently, and with higher
• Application-focused
  You need your business' critical apps to be available and performing reliably per defined SLAs. System Center 2012 R2 relentlessly focuses on optimizing your applications and workloads by delivering rich insights that facilitate predictable application SLAs. To maximize application availability and performance, System Center 2012 R2 offers deep .NET and Java application monitoring and diagnostics in Operations Manager. Easy-to-use reports and dashboards enable you to track and communicate SLAs more effectively, leading to more predictable SLAs. You also can utilize rich performance and availability metrics for multiple perspectives, such as server-side monitoring, client-side monitoring, end-user experience monitoring, and synthetic transaction monitoring. In addition, Operations Manager provides the ability for operations staff to drill down into application stack traces and performance exceptions to identify offending lines of code.