VMWARE Professionals - Intro to System Center 2012 SP1

Editor's Notes

• #8: Cloud attributes - (Time: 1 minute 30 seconds) First, pooled resources: this is the ability to consolidate the key elements of your infrastructure (compute, storage, and network) into pooled, manageable collections of resources, instead of expensive individual or silo’ed pieces. This opens the door for huge scalability and the ability to provision resources dynamically. {Click} Elasticity is the second key benefit. With your resources pooled, they can expand at huge scale dynamically, -- “bursting” to meet new requirements -- and then scale quickly down when they’re done. {Click} Third, the cloud enables self-service. Now you automate provisioning of resources or applications so that your users can go to a self-service portal and get what they need. {Click} Finally, the cloud enables usage based resource metering, so you have the ability to know precisely how your resources are being utilized across the datacenter, which enables better charge-backs and SLAs. {next slide}
• #11: Cloud attributes - (Time: 1 minute) The cloud means leveraging all those capabilities and delivering them with two important goals, namely to increase your control over your IT infrastructure, resources, and investments, while also increasing your ability to customize those IT investments for your business. The private cloud gives you control: Our private cloud is built on the world’s most popular server platform—Windows Server. Further we manage the private cloud with both the built-in management capabilities of Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1. The management features included and combined in both these platforms deliver complete IT control from the infrastructure to the application and across to the user. The private cloud gives you customization: With the new capabilities of Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1, it’s easy to tailor and customize every aspect of your investments to target your specific business needs.   {Click} Put simply: It’s the cloud, dedicated to you. But what’s unique about the Microsoft private cloud? Let’s explore that in a little more detail. {next slide}
• #26: Microsoft Private Cloud - (Time: 4 minutes) Now let’s talk in more depth about the Microsoft private cloud—the cloud computing model that we expect most enterprise customers will adopt first. Different vendors have different ideas of what a private cloud is, but only Microsoft offers a private cloud that delivers real value today and positions a business to take advantage of greater public-cloud benefits in the future.   The Microsoft private cloud is a unique and comprehensive offering, built on four key promises:  Firstly, the Microsoft private cloud is All About the Application. Applications are the lifeblood of your business. The ability to deploy new applications faster and keep them up and running more reliably is the central mission of IT as a competitive differentiator. To gain a real edge, you need to go beyond just managing infrastructure. Recognizing that applications run your business, the Microsoft private cloud offers deep application insight combined with a service-centric approach that helps you deliver predictable application services. No datacenter is an island. Odds are, you run and manage an IT environment today that is deeply heterogeneous, with a wide range of OS, hypervisor, management and development tools in the mix. You want to gain the advantages of private cloud computing, but not if it means walking away from your existing IT investments or adding new layers of complexity. The Microsoft private cloud has been engineered with this in mind, supporting heterogeneous environments from the metal, right up through to the applications, helping you to avoid vendor lock-in, protect and leverage existing investments, and maximizing the use of existing skills. Cloud computing offers the promise of unlocking new innovation and transforming the role of IT in driving business success. The game is no longer about virtualization and server consolidation. A private cloud delivers fundamentally new capabilities that represent a fundamental shift in computing. The platform bet you make today will have long-term implications for the future of your business. With a private cloud built with Windows Server 2012 and System Center, you’ll have a flexible platform, a highly resilient and available foundation for your key applications and workloads, that can scale, dynamically, to meet the needs of even the largest mission-critical workloads, both now, and into the future. Finally, the move to cloud computing involves more than just building a private cloud. The undeniable benefits of public cloud computing – on-demand scalability, flexibility, and economics – also promise significant competitive advantages. The challenge is to leverage your existing investments, infrastructure, and skill sets to build the right mix of on-premises, service provider and Microsoft cloud solutions for your business with the flexibility and control you need in your on-ramp to cloud computing. A Microsoft private cloud empowers application owners with a single management view across these clouds, giving complete control whilst taking advantage of on-demand capacity. It also helps to leverage existing investments, infrastructure and skill sets by adopting a hybrid approach that best suits your business. {next slide}