Today is the day that three new System Center products have begun shipping. These are System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007. Microsoft promises that these new wares complement Microsoft’s existing enterprise System Center offerings, which include System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Capacity Planner 2007, released earlier this year, and the recently announced System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, which will be available in the first half of 2008. Of the many new features in these products author Kerrie Meyler has listed the most significant ones including Network Access Protection, monitoring capabilities, the self-service portal. Microsoft also named over 40 partners offering software and hardware for System Center including 1E, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AVIcode Inc., Bocada Inc., Brabeion Software Corp., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Computer Sciences Corp., Cristalink Ltd., Dell Inc., Dimension Data, DudeWorks Inc., Enterpris Certified Corp., EMC Corp., Emulex Corp., EqualLogic Inc., F5 Networks Inc., FujitsuSiemens Computers, FullArmor, Getronics, HP, IBM Corp., Intel Corporation, Intrinsic Technologies LLC, Jalasoft, Macrovision Corp., NEC Corp., Nokia, Odyssey Software Inc., PS’Soft, Quest Software Inc., Sanbolic Inc., SCCM Expert, ScriptLogic Corp., Secure Vantage Technologies Inc., Silect Software Inc., Spectra Logic Corp. and Tidal Software. Read the full announcement.
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