System Center Orchestrator is one of at least nine new System Center 2012 management products that Microsoft is delivering this calendar year.
Microsoft execs told TechEd 2011 attendees to expect a beta of System Center Orchestrator in the first half of 2011, with the final version due out before year-end. At TechEd, Microsoft execs also noted that the Orchestra beta would indicate the official move of the Opalis codebase to Microsoft.
“This has many positive benefits, including a removal of the licensing complexity around the ‘grant’ of Opalis, greater alignment to the Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria and also things like the Support Lifecycle, Senior Technical Product Manager Adam Hall blogged back in May. The System Center Orchestrator is a process-automation tool for datacenters.
The Beta product “provides the capability of automation of workflows (Runbooks) across other System Center and third-party products,” according to the download information. The beta and final versions of Orchestrator will work on Windows Server 2008 R2 and will support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients.
More... Microsoft execs told TechEd 2011 attendees to expect a beta of System Center Orchestrator in the first half of 2011, with the final version due out before year-end. At TechEd, Microsoft execs also noted that the Orchestra beta would indicate the official move of the Opalis codebase to Microsoft.“This has many positive benefits, including a removal of the licensing complexity around the ‘grant’ of Opalis, greater alignment to the Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria and also things like the Support Lifecycle, Senior Technical Product Manager Adam Hall blogged back in May. The System Center Orchestrator is a process-automation tool for datacenters.
The Beta product “provides the capability of automation of workflows (Runbooks) across other System Center and third-party products,” according to the download information. The beta and final versions of Orchestrator will work on Windows Server 2008 R2 and will support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients.
Introducing Opalis and System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta
Opalis is an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating IT tools to drive down the cost of datacenter operations, while improving the reliability of IT processes. It enables IT organizations to automate best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). This is achieved through workflow processes that coordinate System Center and other management tools to automate incident response, change and compliance, and service-lifecycle management processes.- Automating cross-silo processes and enforcing best practices for incident, change, and service lifecycle management.
- Reducing unanticipated errors and service delivery time by automating tasks across vendor and organization silos.
- Integrating System Center with non-Microsoft tools to enable interoperability across the datacenter.
- Orchestrating tasks across systems for consistent, documented, compliant activity.
The Opalis Difference
The Opalis automation platform is comprised of unique data bus and intelligent workflow capabilities, which enable script-free integration and orchestration to automate context adaptive processes. This provides the flexibility required to leverage existing customer IT investments, apply and enable rapid implementation, and quick return on investment!- Unbiased Connectivity—works across Microsoft and non-Microsoft tools, no rip and replace or vendor lock-in.
- 1-Click Integration Data Bus—pass data between target systems without code, scripts, or variables.
- Intelligent Workflow—create context-adaptive workflows that change and branch based on real-time data.
- Script-Code Free Automation—Integrate and orchestrate systems without fragile, hardcoded scripts.
Announcement of the Beta
System Center Orchestrator 2012
