Big News at MMS 2008 for Tuesday, 4/29
Several significant announcements were made public at MMS today, but I think these three items were far and away the most important for the future of System Center:
Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Available
The beta of the next version of VMM (SCVMM 2008), which includes support for Hyper-V, and requires the RC version of Hyper-V, is available today on http://www.connect.microsoft.com/ (requires Windows LiveID sign in and beta program participation). Read more...
Native Cross-platform Monitoring in Operations Manager 2007 SP2
Today Microsoft announced a few new beta products - two of which came from our team. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, which enable customers to manage Unix/Linux systems from Operations Manager 2007, was delivered as a beta today.
If you were attending Bob Muglia's Keynote this morning then you walked away with a CD containing the beta bits. Read more...
System Center Service Manager Roadmap
The roadmap (and some feature details) for System Center Service Manager were announced, and some talk of the planned integration with SCCM for CMDB were mentioned. There are screenshots and details available HERE.