More Integration on Management Roadmap
Systems management is becoming a major priority at Microsoft: by the end of 2004 the company will deliver several new and substantially enhanced management products and technologies, and all development teams for systems management are now organized under a single leader, Kirill Tatarinov. While details about its radical and long-term Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) remain sketchy, the company will continue taking incremental steps to incorporate systems management into its entire business product line. These changes will deliver important benefits to customers even as work on DSI churns away in the background.
Systems Management No Longer an Afterthought
Systems management is a key factor in improving two deliverables-security and reliability-that are pillars of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative. Manageability is important to enterprise customer satisfaction, and Microsoft plans to highlight manageability as one factor that differentiates Windows from Unix and Linux. In particular, it plans to ensure that the Windows environment allows IT departments to quickly and easily manage software file versions and configuration changes, monitor the health of IT systems and applications, and find and remedy the root causes of problems.
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