Many companies overlook the impact of efficiency in IT operations. Operations Manager in Microsoft's System Center is a monitoring tool that functions to audit services in enterprise-scale systems.

A look at what's new in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Operations Manager (SCOM), for your virtualized infrastructure, either Hyper-V or VMware. The first release of ...

An in-depth review of each System Center component shows the overall product is more like a collection of similar applications than a suite. Management and monitoring of computers and servers, both ...

Initially envisioned in 2003 as an umbrella over Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server with consolidated reporting, System Center has grown through several waves of staggered ...

Microsoft released the final version of its System Center 2012 suite of components in April at a conference in Las Vegas. I’ve taken a hard look and used it in a variety of tests, and I find it a ...