Leaving Legacy Behindwith Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

50%Tieto expands Microsoft Cloud Business with Hybrid Cloud Offerings

Ikoula connects Azure, on premises and hosted clouds

3 Clouds 90%Uberglobal reduced Linux guest licensing costs with Cloud Platform Suite

To thrive in the Public Cloud dominated market, cloud providers need to deliver

new services and new experiences tonew audiences at new low cost with new quality and with new automated processes.

In order to build new modern hosting services, HSPs need to build on a management platform that is self-service aware, multi-tenant ready, application aware, scalable and fully automated across all hosting stack layers.

Customers that did this were able to expand their business across 3 clouds, expand their business by 50% and reduce costs by 90%

Growth of Public Cloud Providers is rendering the current hosting business model obsolete. To thrive in the Public Cloud dominated market, cloud providers need to deliver new value to customers.

Self Service AwareSystem Center enables hybrid cloud computing at its core. Service providers gain consistent management experiences that span across Windows Server and Windows Azure environments, including provisioning, automation, self-service, and monitoring.

Application AwareSystem Center focuses on optimizing applications and workloads through their lifecycle. Rich diagnostics and insight allow for predictable application SLAs, including the ability to elastically scale applications across clouds.

HybridCloud

WindowsAzurePack

Extensibility

Re-Platforming

Multi-tenant readyAs cloud computing adoption increases, service providers are looking to take their datacenter infrastructure to the next level of scale and efficiency, with multi-tenancy, bring-your-own-IP flexibility, chargeback, and infrastructure standardization System Center provides.

Scalable and AutomatedSystem Center supports at-scale management, provisioning and automation of server technologies based on industry-standard hardware.

SaaSManagement

IaaSManagement

Case Studies

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Dimension DataBetter Virtual Machine Control and Monitoring By using Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, Dimension Data has, and can give customers, more control over cloud resources. System Center 2012 R2 includes a feature called Remote Console that provides access to the console of virtual machines through the host server when other remote tools are unavailable. iWeb“The pace of development with Hyper-V is impressive. Hyper-V is more powerful than competing technologies. And the way that System Center and Windows Azure Pack offer a seamless hybrid solution—only Microsoft has that.” – Eric Sarault

VaiSulWeb“With Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012, we can now provide services similar to those in Windows Azure. This is something that no one else in our market is yet delivering, and these services will generate tremendous growth for us. More than 50 percent of our resellers joined our trial of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, and nearly 30 percent of our customers are installing open-source applications using our control panel. Many of them are choosing us because they can successfully run popular applications like Joomla or DotNetNuke, and we expect many of such customers to switch to Windows Azure Services. With this new technology, we can give small businesses true enterprise-grade hosting capabilities with point-and-click simplicity.” - Guglielmo Mengora Hostway“System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 provided one place to do everything,” It included all the private cloud tools that we had been developing and maintaining ourselves. We no longer have to perform the work of managing load-balanced hardware or failover clusters. We no longer require multiple tools to manage our virtual infrastructure, which represents a time and cost savings.” - Grant Langhus

Ancestry.com“It actually took a lot to convince me to go with Microsoft, since most of my background is with other virtualization options. However, when I saw System Center, I knew that it would be difficult to implement a private cloud without something like it—at least without much higher costs. We would have to purchase many third-party tools for orchestration, monitoring, reporting, and other functions, and we were already getting System Center in our Microsoft license.” – Huy Ly

NTTXBenefits - By upgrading its data centers to Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, NTTX Select can offer customers a compelling hybrid-cloud solution that lets customers seamlessly move workloads between their on-premises infrastructures, NTTX data centers, and Windows Azure. By taking advantage of Windows Server 2012 R2 storage innovations, NTTX has reduced storage requirements by 80 percent.

T-Systems International GmbHBy upgrading to System Center 2012, T-Systems has been able to set up a highly automated private cloud environment and achieve aggressive cost-reduction goals. It has also improved service availability and attracted top IT talent because of its automated environment.

These six scenarios represent the way service providers can differentiate and win new customers and revenue in the highly competitive hosted provider environment.

Six scenarios that make a differencewith Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

3- Hybrid Cloud ScenariosIt is complex and cost prohibited to deliver high value services without a hybrid cloud solution. Windows Azure Site Recovery the HSP can protect customers by automating the replication of the virtual machines. The Hosting Service Provider implementing System Center 2012 R2 allows them to implement hybrid cloud solutions more easily and efficiently.

1- Rich and Consistent Tenant Manageability with WAPSophisticated tenants need a seamless experience between their on-premises and public cloud experiences. In-house management systems do not have robust and consistent features as required by their tenants. Windows Azure Pack is the solution.

2 - Service Portal Integration with System Center ExtensibilityHigh complexity and cost of custom integration leaves IaaS services with expensive, manual overhead. System Center 2012 R2 is the easy way for an HSP to use the platform to easily integrate into an existing service portal(s).

5 - Unified Management for IaaS offeringsHodgepodge IaaS management is expensive and inefficient. System Center Operations Manager is the ultimate in monitoring your entire infrastructure, hardware, OS and software across multiple datacenters. The HSP benefits from using SC because the VMM interface is familiar with all hardware.

4 - Complete SaaS ManageabilityThe value of many SaaS offerings cannot be realized without a consistent mechanism and deep management functionality. Hosting Service Provider implementing System Center 2012 R2 to efficiently handle the burden of having to patch and monitor the large infrastructure of their PaaS and SaaS systems. With System Center 2012, management of PCs and servers keeping software up-to-date, and setting configuration and security policies is simple and is a viable management platform.

6 – Re-Platforming for TCO SavingsHigh cost legacy virtualization systems are driving profits away from service providers. Systems Center 2012 R2 saves money when running Windows and Linux workloads.

Technology and Application Stack

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System Center 2012 R2 includes the following key components:

System Center 2012 R2 for Hosting ProvidersSystem Center 2012 R2 runs on top of:Windows Server 2012 R2 – OS and virtualization

Configuration ManagerWith Configuration Manager you can manage your PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving your users access to preferred applications from the devices they choose including Windows PCs, Macs and Unix/Linux Servers on premises along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, Windows Phone, Apple iOS, and Android, for a complete comprehensive management solution through a single administrative console, infrastructure, and reporting system.

Data Protection ManagerData Protection Manager (DPM) enables disk-based and tape-based data protection and recovery for servers such as SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, virtual servers, file servers, and support for Windows desktops and laptops. DPM can also centrally manage system state and Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).

OrchestratorThe Orchestrator component enables general purpose datacenter automation driving consistency and predictability in provisioning processes such as server deployment, patching, and upgrades. It also provides a Windows Azure Integration Pack for at-scale provisioning and management of Windows Azure virtual machines and Windows Azure Storage in an automated manner.

Operations ManagerOperations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

Service ManagerService Manager provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides built-in processes for incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.

Virtual Machine ManagerVirtual Machine Manager (VMM) plays a critical role in enabling virtualization-management scale. For example, a single VMM server can support up to 1,000 hosts and 25,000 virtual machines. With VMM, you can reliably virtualize your top-tier applications and workloads.

Windows Azure PackWindows Azure Pack brings Windows Azure technologies to the datacenter, addressing a number of key requirements for service providers who want to embrace the service provider model for delivering IT services.

System Center 2012 R2 Editions• System Center 2012 R2 Datacenter:

for highly virtualized datacenter and cloud environments

• System Center 2012 R2 Standard: for physical or minimally virtualized environments