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Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)

From Microsoft: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 helps provide you with the knowledge to avoid the avoidable–reducing the complexity associated with managing today's IT infrastructure environment and lowering the cost of operations.

MOM 2005—a key component of the Dynamic Systems Initiative—provides manageability as part of the design and implementation of Windows Server System technologies. By delivering operational knowledge and subject expertise directly from the application developers, MOM 2005 helps simplify identification of issues, 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 helps businesses avoid common IT service woes, for example:

 

  • "My application doesn't work!"
    With MOM 2005 and the SQL Server 2000 Management Pack, potential database issues can be discovered quickly, allowing administrators to fix the issue before the user encounters a problem.
  • "My e–mail takes forever!"
    With MOM 2005 and the Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack, you can use synthetic transactions to monitor the latency experienced by Outlook, Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access, and Exchange ActiveSync technology. You can generate warning alerts when the latency is over a predetermined threshold, allowing administrators to address potential issues before they become reality.
  • "I can't log on!"
    With MOM 2005 and the Active Directory Management Pack, each Active Directory Domain Controller can be monitored to help ensure that tasks are configured correctly, site replication is occurring within reasonable thresholds, and end-to-end replication is occurring within service level agreements, reducing the number of logon failures.

In short, MOM 2005 delivers enterprise-class operations management to improve the efficiency of IT operations. Now you can spend less time managing crises and more time delivering new services to your business.

Hardwyre's implementation and managed support of MOM 2005 result in improved employee operational efficiency decreased operational cost. Through these capabilities our customers will enjoy:

  • Enterprise-class operations management
  • Improved efficiency of IT operations and therefore bigger ROI on IT investments
  • Spending less time managing crises and more time delivering new services

To spend less time managing crises and more time delivering new services to your business through MOM 2005, call Hardwyre today at 501.851.2880.


Microsoft System Center Overview

From Microsoft: Overcome the challenges of day-to-day IT management with the new Microsoft System Center solutions, now joining the family that includes System Center Operations Manager 2007. Start now and see how fast you can achieve integrated IT life-cycle management, knowledge-driven efficiency, and rapid time to value.

Microsoft System Center plays a central role in the Microsoft vision to help IT organizations benefit from self-managing, dynamic systems. System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about your infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so your IT staff can build manageable systems and automate operations in order to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

System Center solutions are tuned to simplify management of the systems and applications your company already has implemented, including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, the Microsoft Office system, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition, System Center solutions interoperate with third-party management tools so you can make the most of your existing investments and build on the System Center foundation with confidence. Already used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies, System Center solutions provide the reliability, scalability, and security required to manage the most mission-critical IT systems, applications, and services.

With an aim to enable self-managing dynamic systems, System Center solutions close the gap between development, operations, and IT by evaluating dependencies and optimizing business process performance from deep inside the operating system, applications, and composite services and workflows. These solutions also provide comprehensive management of physical and virtual environments, resulting in improved efficiencies and better control.

Benefits of System Center

Independent research shows that a well-managed IT environment improves an enterprise's bottom line and productivity.* Using the System Center family of solutions, you can connect your organization's people, processes, and tools across your development and operating environments. As a result, you can optimize your IT infrastructure and more effectively and easily manage all of its components, thus allowing you to focus more on delivering new business value for your organization.

Fuel Productivity
With System Center solutions, IT professionals can quickly and easily perform complex tasks. For example, the solutions enable knowledge-driven IT management and rapid problem resolution by providing comprehensive support and diagnostic information for Windows Server and client operating systems, Active Directory directory services, and the Microsoft Office system. In addition, IT professionals can access products and tools that simplify customization tasks and help them to effortlessly find information about your IT infrastructure—making it easy to identify, catalog, and report on software assets throughout your organization.

Best Choice for Windows
The System Center family integrates with the systems you already have in place, including Windows Vista and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Get comprehensive, built-in information for managing your Windows systems and workloads—expertise that comes directly from the Microsoft development team—and extend the value of the System Center family with add-ons from a vibrant partner community. Finally, implement a familiar, scalable solution that enables you to manage the smallest hardware component; the most complex service-oriented, architecture-based IT services; and anything in-between.

Enterprise-Strength Management
Achieve the enterprise-class reliability, scalability, and security necessary to manage the largest, most complex infrastructure—all with a solution that most Fortune 500 companies use. Implement management servers that can scale to accommodate any size organization and automate tasks to help simplify the discovery of system vulnerabilities and the distribution of security updates. In addition, deliver consistent, reliable, accessible services, and use modeling and application virtualization capabilities to minimize the risk of new application deployments.

Foundation for Growth
Keep pace as your infrastructure grows and changes by taking advantage of the extensible architecture of the System Center family. Centrally and virtually manage your entire IT environment to help achieve operational agility, optimize resource usage, and make the most of your IT economics. Access best practices based on industry standards to help deliver high-quality service each and every time, in addition to a flexible and scalable data model that allows you to consistently define, deploy, monitor, and manage your IT resources.