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13:00-13:45

Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

This 45 minute session will reconfirm Hyper-V as an enterprise class hypervisor then dive into the latest release of Microsoft’s multi-hypervisor management technology, System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012.

‘VMM’ 2012 will allow you to optimise your existing investments by managing multi-hypervisor environments including Hyper-V, Xen and VMware! You can pool and dynamically allocate virtualised datacenter resources (compute, network and storage) enabling the self-service infrastructure experience your business demands. This is all delivered with flexible role based delegation and access control

13:45-14:30

System Center Operations Manager 2012 and System Center Advisor

It’s all about the App! In this 45 minute session we will cover how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 can bring intelligent heterogeneous monitoring and management of your line of business applications, business services and the underlying infrastructure fabric including servers (physical and virtual), SANs and switches along with other datacentre resources.

Learn how business services can be measured against SLA’s and how this information can be surfaced to business and application owners.

Also learn how System Centre Advisor, one of Microsoft’s new cloud offerings, can bring proactive best practice monitoring to Windows Server and associated workloads.

14:30-14:45

14:45-15:30

System Center Configuration Manager 2012

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 makes it easier for you to empower users to be productive with a unified infrastructure that delivers and manages rich user experiences across corporate and consumer devices.

During this 45 minute session we will demonstrate the capabilities of the latest version of our flagship System Center technology which dates back 17 years to SMS 1.0

Patch/Application/OS deployment, power management, asset intelligence & mobile device management will all be covered through live demonstration.

15:30-16:15

System Center Service Manager 2012 and System Center Orchestrator 2012

Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 is Microsoft’s ‘best of breed’ ITIL & MOF service delivery tool. By integrating with the other System Center technologies as well as Active Directory & Exchange, SCSM can handle all problem, change & incident requirements generated in today’s fast paced world of ICT.

By working in conjunction with Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis), we can easily automate a lot of the day to day manual tasks an IT organisation face. This will enable you to build a cost-effective and flexible private cloud infrastructure that responds to incidents, problems and change requests on the fly with minimal if any ‘IT touch’.

16:15-16:30

16:30-17:15

System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 continues to build on the legacy of providing unified data protection for Windows servers and clients as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution from Microsoft, for Windows environments. Data Protection Manager provides the best protection and most supportable restore scenarios from disk, tape and cloud — in a scalable, manageable and cost-effective way.

Already a critical part of Microsoft private cloud infrastructures, Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine