Management Updates

Softricity Working with Microsoft to offer Application Virtualization and Streaming within Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

Boston, MA — February 6, 2006 — Softricity®, the on-demand application virtualization company, today announced the immediate availability of its SoftGrid™ virtualization platform within Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. Now, Microsoft SMS 2003 customers can take advantage of Softricity's application virtualization platform to reduce the overall cost of application management. Softricity's new product, SoftGrid for Microsoft SMS 2003, helps IT administrators instantly gain all the benefits of the SoftGrid platform – including application virtualization, on-demand streaming and self-provisioning – from within the SMS infrastructure.

"By integrating Softricity's application virtualization and on-demand software streaming with SMS 2003, customers can accelerate their SMS application deployments and reduce costs by shortening some potentially lengthy management processes - such as compatibility testing - while helping IT offer software in the context of services to the business." — Felicity McGourty, Director of Product Marketing in the Windows Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp.

“Simplicity, ease of use and configuration were the qualities that made the performance management software known as Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 worthy of the Gold Award in the SearchWinSystems.com systems management category. Designed to reduce the complexity associated with managing today's IT infrastructure environments, MOM 2005 helps simplify the identification of performance issues. It also streamlines the process for determining the root cause of the problem and facilitates quick resolution to restore services and to prevent potential IT problems. MOM 2005's integrated framework provides Web-services-based interconnection with other management systems already in place. With its new console, you can view the systems' health and access the integrated reporting server. MOM 2005 supports an expanded set of configurations and architectures over and above those offered by MOM 2000. […]A new multi-homing feature allows information collected by MOM 2005 agents to be forwarded to and monitored by multiple and separate IT groups requiring visibility into the health of the same servers.” Read more on TechTarget's 2005 Products of the Year!

Microsoft Management Summit 2006 Registration Open!

The year’s MMS 2006 event will take place this April in sunny San Diego and will once again focus on technical content covering Microsoft management products, technologies, and solutions. The MMS 2006 web site is live and registration is open. Full details of the event including the outline agenda, sponsorship information, registration options, and hotel information can be found on the event web site at: http://www.mms2006.com.

Thanks in advance for helping us make MMS 2006 your IT event of the year!

IT’s Showtime! by TechNet-IT Pro On-Demand Service

New videos are available in IT’s Showtime! by TechNet - our IT Pro video on-demand service featuring top rated presentations filmed in live Microsoft events and conferences. The following videos are from the MMS Roadshow:

Windows Server System:
Kiril Tatarinov, Bill Anderson
Microsoft Management Product Roadmap

Bill Anderson
SMS 2003 Technical Drilldown  

And also
Best of MMS: MOM 2005 Technical Drilldown - Starring Vladimir Joanovic
Best of MMS: The Dynamic Systems Initiative - Starring Michael Emanuel