System Center

System Center is Microsoft's suite for managing IT infrastructure. It helps administrators oversee physical and virtual systems from one set of tools across several environments and platforms.

What System Center offers

• Deployment — roll out servers and software across the estate.
• Configuration — keep systems set up consistently.
• Monitoring — watch the health and performance of infrastructure.
• Software-defined datacentre — manage networking, storage, compute and security together.
• Virtualisation management — control virtualised software workloads and the hosts that run them.
• Platform coverage — one approach across different environments and operating platforms.

Who it works with

IT teams and datacentre administrators in organisations that run their own infrastructure, often alongside Azure and other Microsoft cloud services.

Key facts

• Vendor: Microsoft
• Focus: datacentre and IT operations management
• Related products: sits among Microsoft cloud, security and management offerings