Over the next few years, companies are expected to move to the Cloud over the next few years. But some may still want to maintain their own servers on hand, their own datacenters. Microsoft has a solution for this. It is System Center 2012.
Say you are a company that wants tight control of the data in the system. They have looked at cloud computing but are not ready to make the full commitment to it. They want to retain their own datacenters. Yet the cloud offers advantages to the enterprise that it wouldn’t ordinarily offer to its clients or remote branches. The Microsoft System Center can help with that.
Private Cloud
When an enterprise builds a datacenter, it can make that center available on the Internet for its company or its clients. Data is stored and available to all. Companies can develop web applications to make information available. But running some applications on the cloud may not be possible. For example, Excel, or Access are not the kinds of apps that you can transmit and run across the Internet. For that, you would need Office 365, Microsoft’s Azure Cloud application service.
Cloud Integration
System Center 2012 can help enterprises make the slow transition to the cloud by helping them build the private datacenter that can run cloud operations. With the right combination of hardware and software, private cloud services can become important gateways to get the most efficient operations from their existing hardware. They will have the options of designing and running their own applications, and controlling and distributing them to their business partners as they see fit. Plus they will have server tools available from Microsoft to enhance the local private servers to get the best performance from them.
Once a company feels confident that cloud services are worth using full time, they can move their entire data center to Azure.
Source: Microsoft Blog
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