System Center 2012 “Ready Now”; More Lies Ahead

…perhaps. However, the ‘private cloud’ is still a bit of an enigma for most folks – my company included…it’s a logical next step, but once you start looking at the economics of it all, and we have…I see a lot of customers waiting patiently for both Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 because it does a couple of things. 1) They get the features that they’ve been asking for since 2008 – Server 2012 scales and has some pretty impressive new features and 2) They get a management stack that they most surely already have some familiarity with (ask anyone who has heard of or is using SMS/SCCM…then ask who has heard of Ionix?) that allows them to manage from the bare metal to the app that they can use with their existing VMware environment and whatever they are putting in with 2012. We already use a bunch of System Center stuff…the licensing grant gifted us 2012, so we’re definitely going to put it to use.

The SKU’s are dead simple now, the price is less than with the previous version (and a fraction of what VMware quoted us for the 5.1 upgrade), there’s no cost for RAM or cores and if/when the ‘cloud’ makes sense, it’s already there. We don’t have to figure out which clumps of 25 VM’s we want to pay $4k….that we already paid for already.

I dunno, I see your point here…Microsoft does tend to get a little ancy with their marketing and such…but I’ve seen you guys do it too over the years. All I know is, it’s going to be interesting to see how all this plays out over the next couple years…