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Overcome the challenges of Managing IT in a hybrid cloud world – FREE WHITEPAPER
– What are the different forces that are driving adoption and deployment of hybrid cloud architectures?– What are the major trends that make today the most innovative environment ever for business, and also the most challenging IT management environment?– What is the current state of hybrid cloud management offerings?
Savision just released their newest version of Live Maps Unity
Savision just released their newest version of Live Maps Unity. Live Maps Unity 7.5 comes with new features. In this last release, Savision is adding more functionality on ways to proactively monitor business services. Besides the advanced SLAs monitoring, another great feature added to Live Maps Unity 7.5 is the new Web Portal. Savision will be hosting two webinars to introduce the new features and show you how they work so you can get the most out of your System Center environment.
Savision’s co-Founder and VP of Product Management, Dennis Rietvink will be hosting the webinars.
Register for the webinars and find out more about the new features:
– Advanced Service Level Agreement Monitoring
With this new feature, you can have more control over your SLAs as you will receive proactive notifications when they are in danger of being breached.
Application Component Availability. Image source: Savision
– Brand New Web Portal
Get end-to-end service visibility and track interconnected infrastructure and applications from any mobile device, anywhere you are. Live Maps Unity is now Silverlight free.
Register now for any of the webinars:
- EU Webinar – Wednesday, November 25th, 3:30 pm CET / 9:30 am EST
- US Webinar – Tuesday, December 1st, 8:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm EST
Savision will also be raffling a pair of HiFi Philips headphones amongst the attendees of the webinars. To register for the webinars, click here.
What are your prefered Operations Manager Management Pack? What are the TOP 5?
The System Center community is large and continually growing. For new users that are just getting to grips with the new software, there is an abundance of additional management packs that need to be installed before getting the full benefit. These Management Packs (MPs) take the form of updates from Microsoft, free software from 3rd party vendors, and paid-for solutions from 3rd party vendors.
We want to know what your top 5 must-have MPs are in each category. Whether you are an IT Manager, Administrator, consultant, or MVP, this is your chance to share your experience and let others know what MP’s everyone should have. We will publish the results in a later blog highlighting the top 5 System Center MPs. Whether you are a new user with Microsoft System Center or a seasoned professional, the survey is completely anonymous
N.B. All Management Packs included were available on Microsoft Pinpoint or Microsoft Technet at time of writing: Vendor Management Packs, Microsoft Management Packs
Matthew Carr
Posted by Savision https://www.savision.com/resources/blog/vote-your-top-system-center-management-packs
Challenges of Cloud Adoption
The Cloud approach addresses elastic scale, agility, costs and time to market, by allowing organizations not only to deploy a solution quickly but also to scale up/down based on demand. Cloud adoption is sky rocketing, there’s no doubt about it. However, when it comes to investments in the Cloud, how are you planning and assessing business and IT requirements?
- Is your current IT infrastructure and resources meeting the required business SLA’s?
- How you foreseeing capacity issues?
- Are you connecting IT resources to business outcomes and unifying IT processes with business cycles?
- How does your business maintain the system availability and resilience?
- How are you maximizing the utilization of the resources within your IT infrastructure?
With this whitepaper, we will help you find the answer to those questions, covering the challenges in deployment, management and automation phases with some tips and considerations.
Download the whitepaper
You can also register for Savision’s complimentary webinar, presented by MVP Alessandro Cardoso on Adopting the Cloud. The webinar will be presented by MVP Alessandro Cardoso, and will be co-hosted by Savision’s co-founder and VP of Product Management, Dennis Rietvink.
Register for the webinar:
Enhancing Operations Manager with Savision Dashboards
Several key IT trends have been reshaping the industry, notably Cloud and Big Data. As business innovations drive the need for enhanced systems, the data that IT must track grows exponentially and creates significant challenges. Without the right tools for visualizing data, significant and valuable insights remain unknown. In fact, the utter volume of data prevents organizations from capturing, analysing and presenting information that is significant…
Click here to read the full version of this article.
Web-based dashboard solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Recently Savision release a web-based dashboard solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, easily customizable that gives you access to the critical information you need accessible in any device, anywhere.
Savision is running a ‘Dashboards by Savision’ introduction webinar
Join Steven Dwyer, Savision’s VP of R&D, for the ‘Dashboards by Savision‘ introduction webinar. During the webinar, you will learn how to view key performance metrics for your most critical applications so that you can proactively respond to changes in load or behaviour.
You can download the free Dashboards by Savision here !
Register here for the webinars:
US Webinar – Tuesday, April 21st at 2:00 PM EDT | 8:00 PM EST
EU Webinar – Thursday, April 23rd at 10:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM EST
Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Whitepaper and Webminar
EXCLUSIVE Whitepaper: Microsoft Hyper-V Performance
Businesses worldwide are turning their attention to Microsoft’s Hyper-V platform when they’re looking at their private and hybrid cloud initiatives. Find specific and concrete advice in this whitepaper to help you design, build, and upgrade Hyper-V deployments.
Find out how you can get the best value from your Hyper-V deployments, register now for our webinars “Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Considerations” by IT expert Paul Schnackenburg. The webinars will be co-hosted by Savision’s Technical Sales Engineer, Justin Boerrigter.
During the webinar, you will find out how to design, build, and upgrade Hyper-V deployments to ensure that workloads have adequate resources and don’t experience performance issues. Get all the information you need on tools and techniques that will help you locate and remove resource bottlenecks when planning a Hyper-V fabric rollout.
Mark your calendar for one of these dates:
Thursday April 2nd- 9 AM CET / 5 PM AEST / 3 AM EST
Wednesday April 8th- 11:30 AM CET / 7:30 PM AEST/ 5:30 AM EST
If you are unable to find a convenient time to attend the webinars, sign up here to receive the on-demand version after April 8th.
Demystifying service management’s role in private cloud by MVP Steve Buchanan
A fellow MVP Steve Buchanan and Savision just launched a new whitepaper regarding Service Management and the Private cloud. The whitepaper sets out to define private cloud, the layers of private cloud, and those layers within which service management operates. It also explores having ultimate visibility into your organization’s business services. Business services discussed in this paper consist of configuration items (CIs), monitoring, and application maps; they are underpinned with incident, change management, and modern day self-service. In addition, the whitepaper explores the integration between Operations Manager and Service Manager, and the role Savision Live Maps plays in this area.
You can download it here: http://www2.savision.com/l/12082/2015-01-16/q32vf
TechEd Australia 2014 Melbourne and Sydney editions
This year TechEd Australia will be held in Melbourne (Oct, 7th – Oct 8th) and in Sydney (Oct, 27th – Oct 28th)
I will be speaking about Azure Remote App on both editions and if you come along and tweet about my session you will enter into a draw to win a copy of my book along with Savision Polo.
It is an interactive demo. I will be using Hyper-V to show how to build a custom RemoteApp image as well as demo the RemoteApp client on different devices.
Bring scale, agility and global access to your business applications. Azure RemoteApp helps employees stay productive anywhere, and on a variety of devices – Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, or Android. Integrate Azure RemoteApp with your company’s existing on-premise infrastructure and bring your own Remote Desktop Session Host, or deploy Azure RemoteApp using our pre-built app collections for a stand-alone cloud service. Quickly ramp up and provide seasonal workers, vendors, or large groups of new employees access to company applications without paying for new servers and expensive on-premise infrastructure.
Melbourne Edition
Date: Tuesday, October 7
- Time:9:40 AM – 10:40 AM
- Room: Datacentre and Infrastructure Management
- Session Type: Breakout
- Session Code:DCI301
- Session Levels:300
Sydney Edition
Date:Monday, October 27
- Time:10:10 AM – 11:10 AM
- Room:Datacentre & Infrastructure Management
- Session Type:Breakout
- Session Code:DCI301
- Session Levels:300
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Recommended Books
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
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