It is one year since Microsoft announced that System Center would be a family of systems-management offerings based on Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), an extension of ITIL-based industry best practices and process. Now that family is growing.

Over the past year, Microsoft has started filling out the System Center family beyond its two flagship products � Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and System Management Server (SMS) � adding a number of products and solutions. At the April 24 � 28 Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2006, attended by over 3,000 IT professionals, Microsoft announced immediate and upcoming additions to the System Center product family, including an offering in the �service desk� arena, scheduled to be available in 2007, and updates to existing System Center offerings.

Microsoft officials also provided updates on investments Microsoft is making in infrastructure capabilities and in driving industry standards. The combined investments, company officials say, are helping to make real Microsoft�s Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) � a program espousing a vision of delivering self-managing dynamic systems that will help enable customers to achieve higher business value through automation, flexible resource utilization and knowledge-based processes.

To learn more about the enhancements to System Center and its role in bringing Microsoft�s vision of self-managing dynamic systems closer to reality, PressPass spoke with Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president of the Windows and Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft.