LONDON & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–1E, a leading provider of software and services which reduce organizations’ IT costs and environmental footprint, today announced that Web WakeUp, a software tool which enables remote users to securely power on their office PCs from home through a web interface, has taken the ultimate next step in user empowerment.
From Ulf Månsson, of Lumagate:
We are many that are waiting impatiently for the release of Service Manager 2010. Microsoft has now revealed some information regarding the licensing for Service Manager 2010 which I think will be appreciated by many.
Service Manager 2010 will be a part of Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD). If you have one of these licenses today with a valid Software Assurance or if you sign a new contract you are entitled to Service Manager 2010 when the products is released this spring.
The other products that are included in SMSE and SMSD are:
Good news is that Opalis will also be a part of these licenses. Opalis was acquired by Microsoft in the end of 2009 and will bring automation of tasks and processes into System Center products.
If you are not familiar with the licenses for SMSE and SMSD you find more information about them here.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/management-suites-faq.aspx
The Provance IT Asset Management Pack is a Process Management Pack that runs within the forthcoming Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 to provide Software and IT Asset Management. The supplemental capability provided by the Provance IT Asset Management Pack allows Microsoft System Center customers to take control of IT costs, improve IT Service Management efficiency and reduce security and compliance risks. It extends Microsoft System Center Service Manager with additional functionality to manage the financial, contractual and organizational information necessary to support Software Asset Management, License Compliance, IT Asset Life Cycle Management, and more cost-effective and efficient IT Service Management.
“The IT Asset Management capability that Provance delivers to Microsoft System Center customers further strengthens and extends our knowledge-driven IT management solutions and showcases the tremendous extensibility of System Center.” – Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center and Virtualization Marketing, Microsoft
The Provance IT Asset Management Pack will be available concurrent to the release of Microsoft System Center Service Manager in the first half of 2010. The Beta 1 release of the Provance IT Asset Management Pack is now available to qualified participants in the company’s beta testing and evaluation program. The program is open to Microsoft partners, customers and internal staff participating in the Microsoft System Center Service Manager Beta 2 program who have expertise in managing IT environments with Microsoft System Center solutions.
Register for beta updates or apply to participate in the beta program.
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Looking for a seamless way to manage both your physical and virtual assets across your IT environment? System Center Essentials and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Workgroup Edition, along with Microsoft’s reliable and powerful Hyper-V hypervisor platform, provide an integrated solution for virtualizing and managing your physical and virtual assets. And, with more functionality delivered at a lower cost than VMware (see chart below), Essentials and VMM become the logical midmarket systems management solution.
For a limited time, Microsoft is offering Essentials 2007 and VMM 2008 at a 37% discount through designated partners. The offer includes a one-year Software Assurance agreement that includes a free upgrade to Essentials 2010 upon its release to manufacturing in 2010. That’s three products for the retail price of Essentials 2007 alone! To learn more, read the press release or contact your local partner. For a full description of the offer, see Terms and Conditions.
Virtualization Comparison Chart (click image for full article)
Microsoft announced this morning that over the next several weeks, they are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments – including Hyper-V R2, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
Click here to download — How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper
Exclusive Access for Alumni
From today all registered attendees have access to the MMS 2010 CommNet but event Alumni have exclusive access to the online Schedule Builder tool for the next 14 days, before access opens to all other attendees on March 1st. This provides you with an opportunity to review the breakouts and labs being offered at MMS 2010 and to build your personal schedule before all other registered attendees have access to the booking system.
Some of you will recall my recent post about the usefulness of System Center Capacity Planner. I think we have an answer to the question of whether or not it’s a useful tool or if it could be more useful if extended to the ISV partner community. Microsoft has just made the following announcement regarding its end-of-life:
System Center Capacity Planner Has Been Discontinued.
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) is formally being discontinued, effective immediately, as it no longer supports the current versions of Microsoft applications it was designed for. The most recent version, SCCP 2007, is no longer available. No new versions of this standalone capacity planning tool, as well as any new or updated application capacity planning models, will be developed.
This just in:
Dell announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Kace, a leading systems-management appliance company with solutions tailored to the requirements of midsized businesses and public (government, education and healthcare) institutions.
Kace provides comprehensive and affordable solutions through the award-winning KBOX systems-management and deployment appliances which carry a wide range of capabilities including:
• Device discovery, PC and server inventory, and asset management;
• Configuration management, including operating system deployment, software distribution, application virtualization and scripting;
• End-point security via patch management, security-policy enforcement and vulnerability scanning; and,
• Service management through integrated service desk, user portal and alerting.
Dell channel partners will be able to resell Dell / Kace products, but the channel integration plan is not yet final. In the interim, we welcome our Channel Partners to go directly to the Kace Team to set-up a reselling agreement at http://www.kace.com/partners/application.php. Learn more at http://www.kace.com/partners/channel-partners.phpKACE has been successful in selling to midsized customers in every industry vertical, but has been particularly successful in K-12 and higher education, as well as state and local government. For a sampling of KACE customers by vertical and size see the KACE customer pages at http://www.Kace.com/customer
If you have additional questions on our recent acquisition, please read the Press Release located at http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2010-2-11-Kace-Acquisition.aspx or contact your Dell Account Team.
Learn more about Kace products at http://www.Kace.com/products
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 has been released. It includes the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update (KB973583) and additional bug fixes. For full details, visit http://bit.ly/bf78O3.
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