1.
System Center 2012 Licensing Update
Presented By Luke Black & Greg Zamzow
January 2012

2.
Agenda
 Introduction to Softchoice
 System Center 2012 Overview
 System Center 2012 Licensing Update
 Next Steps
 Q&A Session
 Enrollment for Core Infrastructure

3.
• US$1.18 billion in Gross Revenue (2010) • Canada’s Top Solution Provider (6 years in a
row) from CDN Magazine
• #1 Microsoft EA Advisor in North America
• Traded on TSX Symbol: SO
• 68th ranked VAR on CRN 500 - Highest earnings ever in 2009
• Awarded Best Workplace in Canada and US
From the client to the cloud, from coast to coast –
with Softchoice, the future is unlimited

4.
Cloud Drivers

5.
System Center 2012: Enabling the Private Cloud

6.
System Center 2012
• Heterogeneous • Deep application • Flexibility with
support monitoring and delegation and control
diagnosis
• Process automation • Application self-
Self-service • Comprehensive service across clouds
application
• infrastructure manageability • Physical, virtual, and
cloud management
• Service-centric
approach

7.
Private Cloud Licensing:
Maximizes your private cloud value while simplifying purchasing

8.
Simplified Server Management Licensing
*New Component Introduced with
System Center 2012

9.
Server Management License Edition Comparison:

10.
Licensing Transition Plan
Grant Conversion Rate
2 to 1*
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.

11.
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

12.
Simplified licensing
 Simplifies virtualization
Per Device Subscription
licensing
Per Processor Per Server
 Simplifies Core
Per Operating System Environment Infrastructure server
product licensing to per-
Per Processor Per Server
processor
Core Infrastructure
Server Suites  Simplifies management and
security licensing for
Per Processor customers
 Can reduce cost and
overhead of license
management
Note: ECI customers can continue buying
server infrastructure software outside of ECI

13.
ECI Flexibility
Purchase the capabilities needed for your organization when it’s needed
through the ECI.
 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

14.
What’s new in System Center Service Manager 2012?
• Self-Service Portal
SharePoint based
Customization out-of-box web parts
• Service Requests &
Incidents SLA
• Release Management
• Data Warehouse/Reporting
Pull from SM, OM & CM
Publish to external warehouses (SAP, HR…)
• Orchestrator/VMM Integration

15.
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

16.
What’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?
Deployment Fabric Cloud Services
Fabric Service
Management
Management
Hyper-V Bare Service
Update
Metal Templates
Management
Provisioning
Hyper-V,
Dynamic Application
VMware, Citrix
Optimization Deployment
XenServer
Network Power Custom
Management Management Command
Execution
Storage Cluster
Management Management Image Based
Servicing

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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