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Microsoft to Enable Private Clouds with Windows Server, System Center

Time: 04:15 EST/09:15 GMT | News Source: Network World Fusion | Posted By: Byron Hinson

Microsoft plans to build features into future versions of Windows Server, as well as a new System Center product, that will help companies deploy and manage private clouds, Microsoft server and tools division president Bob Muglia said in a recent interview. "We will move more and more into managing pools of resources," Muglia said. Traditional data centers, and even most virtualized data centers, require administrators to manage servers as discrete entities and to move applications manually. Private clouds will take a much more flexible, scalable, automated approach and draw computing power from pools of resources, rather than discrete servers, and will adopt many of the best practices of public cloud vendors.