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    Download Free New Releases of System Center 2012 Products

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    Today Microsoft released new evaluation versions of the System Center 2012 family of products.  It is your opportunity to download and enjoy the amazing experience of using System Center.  When I think of System Center I immediately think of VIrtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, and Operations manager, but System Center is oh so much more. 
    So what products are available for download?  This from the System Center Website…..

    “Available System Center 2012 Products:

    • System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC provides comprehensive configuration management for the Microsoft platform that can help you empower users with the devices and applications they need to be productive while maintaining corporate compliance and control.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC, built on System Center Configuration Manager, provides industry-leading threat detection of malware and exploits as part of a unified infrastructure for managing client security and compliance that can help you simplify and improve endpoint protection.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of your datacenter, private, and public clouds.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta provides unified data protection for Windows servers and clients that can help you deliver scalable, manageable, and cost-effective protection and restore scenarios from disk, tape, and off premise.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center Orchestrator 2012 RC provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes through the creation of runbooks that can help you to define and standardize best practices and improve operational efficiency.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC provides virtual machine management and services deployment with support for multi-hypervisor environments that can help you deliver a flexible and cost effective private cloud environment.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center App Controller 2012 Beta provides a common self-service experience across private and public clouds that can help you empower application owners to easily build, configure, deploy, and manage new services.
      Available in these languages: English
      System Requirements >>
    • System Center Service Manager 2012 Beta provides flexible self-service experiences and standardized datacenter processes that can help you integrate people, workflows, and knowledge across enterprise infrastructure and applications.
      Available in these languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish
      System Requirements >>

    The list of products is long and distinguished.  I would highly recommend that you get started on the downloads and put these new products to the test in your environment.  They are Fantastic!

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