These days, enterprises must do more with less while continually adapting to advancing technology

Managing Data Center Configuration Management Using Microsoft® System Center As the number of servers,  Deep, embedded knowledge from deployment efforts.. Being able to applications, and services deployed in build and reuse server images or Microsoft for best practices that data centers continues to increase, so configuration baselines ensures that reduce deployment time and does the pressure to maximize servers are properly configured and support ongoing process resources such as server hardware. secured when deployed. This improvements This pressure is driven by both cost savings and green IT initiatives. The System Center Data center managers have Configuration automated some server management Management Solution processes (such as patch Microsoft has brought together deployment) but are now seeking key capabilities needed to ways to scale their management provide an integrated solution to practices to the increasing number of these inter-related issues. The servers they own. Virtualization, which configuration management supports server consolidation and solution enables data center server deployment flexibility, can also managers to: introduce the danger of virtual Figure 1 – Software Deployment Status Reporting machine sprawl.  Automate server capability is available for both physical provisioning and updating The Microsoft System Center server and virtual server images, and it can configuration management solution is be ...