Microsoft updates System Center for the private cloud | ZDNet

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Microsoft has unveiled its 2012 wave of System Center updates and new releases, with an increased focus on the transition of infrastructure to private clouds and on delivering self-service IT for end users. Describing the tools as "handling one of the key challenges, the complexity in the datacentre", Anderson said that Microsoft was doing "more than just monitoring the compute in a cloud, its working with networking, storage and physical hardware". "We will give you the tools to help make the decision and then deliver the [private cloud] fabric," Anderson said in his keynote speech. Concero is a web-based self-service portal that helps business users request and deploy new resources in private clouds, while Advisor provides cloud-hosted best practice advice for tools and services. He also addressed IT professional concerns by noting that "System Center makes it simple and easy for service consumers to use capacity so they dont go around you to public cloud providers".

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