Article by George Norman

On 27 May 2009

Redmond-based software developer Microsoft has recently announced it reached the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) milestone in the development of System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2, its end-to-end service management solution that provides support for improving availability and performance across IT services in a datacenter. The next milestone in the development of System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2 is GA (General Availability), which should occur on the 1st of July.

Manageability Knowledge Center, J.C. Hornbeck, comments: “Just in case you got an early start on the long Memorial Day weekend (here in the States) and missed the announcement, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 was approved and released to manufacturing last Friday. General availability of the product should be around July 1st.”


New functionality in System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2:
- Cross platform monitoring: monitor Windows, Linux and UNIX server through a single console.
- Service level tracking: a detailed report for all monitored IT services is presented; it contains data on performance and availability metrics of IT service levels.
- New monitoring templates.
- Enhanced usability.
- Improved performance.

Benefits of using System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2:
- Monitoring complete server infrastructure in the data center costs less.
- Enhanced management and assurance of virtualized systems.
- Service level performance delivered to end users.
- Web application and site assured availability for critical business processes.
- Streamlined problem and action management across multiple IT monitoring systems.

“Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps reduce the cost of datacenter management with end-to-end monitoring and management of Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux servers and workloads, while assuring delivery of IT services to expected and agreed levels. Upon downloading the 180-day trial software, you're automatically registered to receive valuable resources delivered at convenient intervals throughout the software evaluation period,” explained Microsoft.

Additional details on System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2 RTM are available here.
If you would like to evaluate System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2, a download location is available here.



Tags: Microsoft, System Center Operation Manager 2007 R2

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