Security & Management : DSI

Microsoft Management Product Roadmap

daniel — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:42:00 GMT

This session will cover Microsoft's management product plans for the next 12 months, including new product releases. It will outline the new System Center family of products and discuss how they integrate to provide a complete management solution. A number of partner solutions will be described which extend Microsoft's management solutions to non-Microsoft applications and platforms.

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HCL launches Microsoft CoE

daniel — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:18:00 GMT

NEW DELHI: HCL Comnet today announced the opening of India's first Microsoft Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Infrastructure Management.

This centre will significantly add to HCL's existing capabilities in offering migration and project services to worldwide customers on new Microsoft technologies.

The CoE will further enhance HCL's capabilities in implementing best practices around active Microsoft platform and technologies, building unique solutions for implementing new MS technology platforms, showcasing and offering migration and project based services to global customers for deploying new MS platforms like Windows Vista, SMS, MS System Centre, MOM 2007, etc.

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MOM and AVIcode: Incorporating the Operations Perspective in Dynamic Systems Initiative

daniel — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Application development and application maintenance are no longer separate. Closing the loop between operations and development is critical for keeping the total cost of operations down. In this webast, learn how Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System and AVIcode Intercept Studio 2.3 extend the capabilities of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. AVIcode Intercept Studio and MOM 2005 provide the foundation for "friction-free" application health modeling and operational monitoring of distributed Microsoft .NET applications. Find out about the powerful capabilities this solution provides for software architects, systems operators and administrators.

Presenters: Stephen Pelletier, VP Business Development, AVIcode, Inc., and Dhananjay Mahajan, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

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The Business Needs for Operations Management

daniel — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:11:00 GMT

Business needs

The need for an organization to deploy an operations management solution depends
primarily on the quality of service expected and the complexity of the IT infrastructure.
An operations management solution is essential for organizations that require:
High availability and optimal performance of systems.
Centralized management of a distributed IT infrastructure.
Effective change management and capacity planning.

High service availability and optimal performance

For many organizations, high system availability and optimal system performance are
critical business needs. For example, service interruptions and inconsistent
performance can lead to dissatisfied customers and lost revenue, placing the
organization at a competitive disadvantage. Despite all this, software and hardware
systems fail in unpredictable ways. For many IT systems, it is simply not reasonable to
expect one hundred percent uptime and flawless performance over the course of an
entire year. It is important for business decision makers to distinguish between what is
acceptable and unacceptable availability and performance. For this reason, managers of
critical systems and their customers enter into what is known as a service level
agreement (SLA). An SLA specifies the quality of service required to support an
organization’s business functions.
Operations management enables systems administrators to ensure that their
organizations’ IT infrastructures consistently deliver the quality of service specified by
their SLAs. Systems administrators can proactively monitor systems, identify potential
health issues, and quickly resolve these issues. Such preventive maintenance minimizes
service outages and performance losses and helps reduce unplanned downtime.

Centralized administration

If an organization has offices in several locations, its IT infrastructure spans a wide
geographical area. For single-point administration of such a distributed infrastructure,
systems administrators need a centralized monitoring and management system.
Operations management enables systems administrators to monitor applications,
services, and the performance levels of distributed systems from a central location. This
gives systems administrators an organization-wide view of IT health issues. If a problem
is identified on a computer, the problem can be corrected locally or remotely, depending
on the nature of the problem.

Effective change management and capacity planning

Organizations need to expand their IT infrastructures to meet growing business
requirements. The IT department must methodically scale up an organization’s IT
infrastructure so that new services are smoothly deployed.
Operations management enables systems administrators to identify IT infrastructure
changes that can increase operational efficiency and effectively implement these
changes without disrupting existing services.
In addition, operations management supports capacity planning. Systems
administrators can collect operations data over a period of time, analyze this data, and
identify performance trends. Based on these trends, system administrators can predict
the demand for IT services and determine the resources that will be required to meet the
demand.