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• System Center Service Manager Beta 2 Now Available

  Today, Microsoft announced the release of System Center Service Manager Beta 2, with over 300 customers participating in the product’s Rapid Deployment Program. In their early evaluations, these customers have seen how through the power of Service Manager’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:07 AM by mdingle | 0 Comments Filed under: System Center

• System Center Configuration Manager R3 will be available to customers in Q2 2010

  Microsoft announced today that System Center Configuration Manager R3 will be available to customers in Q2 2010. They are currently taking nominations for TAP customers. For more information on what capabilities will be included in the R3 version check Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:12 AM by mdingle | 0 Comments Filed under: System Center Configuration Manager, System Center

• Microsoft and Partners Optimize Midsize Business IT With Virtualization and Systems Management

  Today at VMworld Microsoft announced a new solution for mid-market organizations that are looking to efficiently deploy and manage technology with limited IT resources. Microsoft and its OEM partners Fujitsu and Lenovo will offer customers a new software Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:08 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, System Center, VMworld 2009, SMB

• Businesses Save Thousands Moving to Microsoft Virtualization

  Today Microsoft announced that business customers are saving on average $170,000 (U.S.) when they switch to Microsoft virtualization software from VMware software. Customers are turning to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center management Read More... Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:18 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, windows server 2008 hyper-v, System Center, VMworld 2009

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 reaches RTM milestone

  Today, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM08 R2), with general availability through volume licensing starting on Oct. 1. One key additional feature of SCVMM08 R2 is the ability Read More... Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 9:39 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V Server, System Center

• Frugal Fridays Podcast: Microsoft Technical PM, Kenon Owens

  Checkout this week's installment of the Frugal Friday's Tech Show podcast with Jason Perlow and Ken Hess featuring Kenon Owens, Technical Product Manager on the Integrated Virtualization Team at Microsoft. Click here and learn about System Center Virtual Read More... Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 4:52 PM by mdingle | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center

• Brad Anderson promoted to Corporate Vice President of Management and Services Division

  Today Microsoft announced that Brad Anderson has been promoted to Corporate Vice President, Management and Services Division (MSD). Brad took over the helm of MSD about two years ago – and has led the division on a path of continual growth since then. Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:12 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: System Center

• Core Infrastructure at WPC 2009

  Today begins Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, and there’s a lot of buzz around what partners can look forward to in the coming year. Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing, will be giving Read More... Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 9:26 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Virtualization, Partner News, Windows Home Server, Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solutions, Windows Small Business Server, Identity and Security, Worldwide Partner Conference, Forefront, windows server, System Center

• Spotlight on Cost

  Microsoft re-launched their Spotlight on Cost site which touts a free downloadable whitepaper titled, Server Infrastructure Optimization: Best Practices to Reduce IT Operational Costs . The whitepaper shows that businesses can often realize immediate Read More... Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:09 AM by mdingle | 1 Comments Filed under: cost savings, System Center

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate (RC) Released

  The System Center Operations Manager team today announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) of Operations Manager 2007 R2, which is ready for download through Microsoft Connect . Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers key improvements including Read More... Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:20 PM by mdingle | 0 Comments Filed under: System Center Operations Manager, System Center, RC

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 beta now available

  Today, Microsoft announced the first beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM R2). With feedback from our customers, Microsoft has made a number of new feature enhancements in R2 that support using a Windows platform including: Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 8:24 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008 R2, System Center

• Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System

  Today, Microsoft Corp. announced its support of Cisco’s Unified Computing System entrance into the server datacenter market as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Through this agreement, Cisco will pre-package, resell and support Windows Server Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 8:01 AM by mdingle | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2008, windows server 2008 hyper-v, Cisco, System Center