HP Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010

Today’s midsize business faces a number of different IT challenges especially when staffed with smaller IT departments. These IT Professionals have to perform a broad range of IT tasks rather than being specialized as we find in Enterprise. Typically these IT challenges fall into four main categories.

Keeping IT Infrastructure Up and Running:

- Reducing server sprawl and IT power/cooling costs
- Moving from reactive to proactive state. How to move from a reactive to a proactive state and anticipate problems.

Improving End User Productivity:

- Quickly troubleshooting PC and laptop issues
- Deploying new software in a timely manner

Keeping System Up To Date:

- Keeping hardware & software updated with the latest patches
- Ensuring changes are made on time

Keeping Track of What I Have:

- Understanding what users have purchasing the right software licenses
- Regulatory or internal compliance

To address these challenges traditionally midsize organizations have had to deal with either expensive & complex Enterprise solutions or resort to manual processes and point solutions that only solve some of these challenges.

System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is an IT management solution in the System Center family of IT systems management products specifically designed for midsized businesses. SCE 2010:

- Provides your organization a unified solution with a single console for managing a broad range of tasks across your physical and virtual servers clients hardware software and IT services for a unified experience.
- Enables you to proactively manage your IT environment helping keep your system up-to-date with a solution that accelerates problem resolution and enables automation of system updates and data collection.
- Is easy to deploy and maintain helping simplify complex management tasks for increased IT efficiency.

Benefits

Microsoft’s System Center solution for midsize businesses helps you cut costs gain better control of and simplify the complexity of your virtual and physical IT environment.

- Cut IT costs with integrated virtualization and management
- Take control of your IT environment with expert knowledge automation and data protection
- Simplify management of your IT environment with an integrated solution built for the way you work

Unified Experience

- Integration of virtualization management including live migration
- Automated computer grouping
- Server management limit increased to 50

Proactive Management

- Automated management of updates and installation deadlines
- Improved software distribution targeting
- Dynamic importation of monitoring management packs

Increased Efficiency

- Quick provisioning of new virtual machines
- Easy server conversions from physical-to-virtual
- Intelligent placement of virtual workloads