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IT Professionals searching for an advanced Configuration Management solution
About Microsoft System Center
Stay in control of your IT—across your environment and platforms—with System Center. Simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenter, while increasing agility and performance. Diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload, or application issues to maintain reliability and high performance. Deploy and manage your software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security.
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Microsoft System Center Product Features
Configuration Management
Access Control / Permissions
Application Deployment
Automated Provisioning
Infrastructure Automation
Node Management
Orchestration
Reporting Analytics / Visualization
Task Management
System Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Antivirus Management
Data Backup / Recovery
Device Monitoring
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Policy-based Automation
Remote Monitoring
Reporting / Analytics
Risk Analysis
Server Monitoring
Service Configuration Management