System Center 2012 Licensing UpdatePresented By Luke Black & Greg Zamzow

January 2012

Introduction to Softchoice

System Center 2012 Overview

System Center 2012 Licensing Update

Next Steps

Q&A Session

Enrollment for Core Infrastructure

Agenda

From the client to the cloud, from coast to coast – with Softchoice, the future is unlimited

• US$1.18 billion in Gross Revenue (2010)

• #1 Microsoft EA Advisor in North America

• 68th ranked VAR on CRN 500

• Awarded Best Workplace in Canada and US

• Canada’s Top Solution Provider (6 years in a row) from CDN Magazine

• Traded on TSX Symbol: SO- Highest earnings ever in 2009

Cloud Drivers

System Center 2012: Enabling the Private Cloud

System Center 2012

• Heterogeneous support

• Process automation Self-service

• infrastructure

• Deep application monitoring and diagnosis

• Comprehensive application manageability

• Service-centric approach

• Flexibility with delegation and control

• Application self-service across clouds

• Physical, virtual, and cloud management

Private Cloud Licensing:Maximizes your private cloud value while simplifying purchasing

Simplified Server Management Licensing

*New Component Introduced with System Center 2012

Server Management License Edition Comparison:

Licensing Transition Plan

2 to 1*

Grant Conversion Rate

1 to 2

1 to 1

1 to 1

* SC 2012 Datacenter covers up to 2 processors per license whereas SMSD only covers 1 processor per license.

ECI improves how infrastructure Server products are sold!

Enterprise Agreement

Desktop Enrollment

Enrollment for Application Platform

Enrollment for Core Infrastructure

• Purchasing technology becomes easier – how to sell matches how customers want to buy

• Customers receive cost savings in return for an increased customer commitment• No dependencies between enrollments; you can have an EA with just one of the

enrollments

Simplified licensing

Per Processor

Per Device Subscription

Per Server

Per Operating System Environment

Per Processor Per Server

Per Processor

Core InfrastructureServer Suites

Simplifies virtualization licensing

Simplifies Core Infrastructure server product licensing to per-processor

Simplifies management and security licensing for customers

Can reduce cost and overhead of license management

Note: ECI customers can continue buying server infrastructure software outside of ECI

ECI Flexibility

Determine your IT requirements

Select the suites with the capabilities to meet your requirements

Select the quantity of each suite needed to meet the scale required

Start an ECI and purchase the suites needed today, while…

Securing the rights to upgrade to new versions of the product released under Software Assurance

Securing today’s suite prices for future purchases made during the 3 year term

Having the ability to migrate existing Windows Servers with SA to Core Infrastructure Server Suites

Upgrade your Core Infrastructure Server Suites at any time

Purchase the capabilities needed for your organization when it’s needed through the ECI.

What’s new in System Center Service Manager 2012?

• Self-Service PortalSharePoint basedCustomization out-of-box web parts

• Service Requests &Incidents SLA

• Release Management• Data Warehouse/Reporting

Pull from SM, OM & CMPublish to external warehouses (SAP, HR…)

• Orchestrator/VMM Integration

What’s new in System Center Configuration Manager 2012?

• User Centric Software Delivery• User Identity• More primary devices• Defining working hours

• New intuitive ribbon console• Role based administration• Mobile management & support

• List devices + ActiveSync from SCCM• Application Model• Self-Service Portal• DCM – now Enforcing configuration & policies• Simplified hierarchical infrastructure

What’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?

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Deployment Fabric

Hyper-V Bare Metal

Provisioning

Hyper-V,VMware, Citrix

XenServer

Network Management

Storage Management

Update Management

Dynamic Optimization

Power Management

Cluster Management

Fabric Management

What’s new in System Center Operations Manager 2012?• Removal of Root Management Server• Overrides moved out of default management pack• Resource pools for distributed health and group calculations• Agents can report to multiple monitoring servers (easily configured)• Redesigned console with more consistency with the suite• Network discovery and monitorong (routers/switches/vLANs)• SharePoint integration for dashboards• Powershell module

What’s new in System Center Orchestrator 2012?• Rewritten into .Net/Silverlight services and consoles• Updated activities (formerly Foundation Objects)• Runbook based approach (opposed to difficult policies)• Revamped consoles• ReST Web services (WDSL is gone)• Tighter security for centralized management

What’s new in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012?

• Centralized management and console• Media Co-location• Manage 2010 and 2012 from a single console• Integrate with ticketing systems, workflows and team structures• Improved fault tolerance and reliability• Enterprise scale• Remote administration• Certificate based protection• SLA based alerting with alert categories• Role based administration• Item level recovery – even with DPM running as VM

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