Microsoft Launches .NET Management Services Initiative

Microsoft has launched a new initiative aimed at making its .NET platform much more manageable than today’s Windows. The new initiative is designed to help Microsoft further penetrate the market for enterprise data centers and win over application service providers (ASPs).

With .NET’s future focus on Internet-based application services, providers must guarantee service levels, even though the applications may be implemented across “federations” of servers, sometimes hosted by disparate organizations. Rather than leave resolution of this issue entirely up to third parties, Microsoft will offer a complete, standards-based system health and service availability monitoring architecture for its .NET platform and will ensure that a wide assortment of third-party application and management tools can take advantage of this infrastructure.

The new initiative contains three significant parts: .NET Management Services, the Microsoft Operations Manager product, and the Microsoft Management Alliance.