Evaluation of Microsoft System Center, VMware and OpenStack

This report provides a comparison of Microsoft System Center with VMware and OpenStack, focusing on their functionalities, compatibility, and security features. The report highlights that Microsoft System Center simplifies data center management, offering compatibility with Windows and web-based platforms. It is compared with VMware, which focuses on virtual infrastructure management, and OpenStack, an open-source platform for cloud management. The comparison covers aspects like platform compatibility, security features such as data protection and backups, and ease of use. The report suggests that while Microsoft System Center is designed for straightforward management, VMware offers a more complex system, and OpenStack is compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows. This report provides insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each system, offering a practical perspective on their suitability for various IT environments. The report also references relevant research papers to support the analysis.

Running head: EVALUATION OF MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER
Evaluation of Microsoft System Center
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Evaluation of Microsoft System Centre in terms of management, compatibility,
complexity and security compared to other clouds.
Comparison with VMware
Microsoft System is the simplified management of the data centre experience for
heterogeneous and complex workloads. VMware is the service, which enables the user to
manage and centralize the virtual infrastructure through a specific single platform for
businesses (Solaimani, Khan and Thuraisingham, 2014). VMware has the automated
proactive management system.
Microsoft system centre compatible with Windows and web-based platforms and included
with unlimited environments of operating systems. The VMware is compatible with
Windows, Mac, Linux and Web-based platforms.
Microsoft system centre is included with the security features of Endpoint protection and
Data Protection Managers whereas VMware is included with Data backup and Data
Restoration as the security purpose.
In terms of complexity VMware is more complex system than Microsoft System Centre as
Microsoft system is the simple management system of the datacentre.
Comparison with OpenStack Private Cloud
OpenStack is the open source software to create public and private cloud, which controls the
networking resources, storage and big pools of compute. Microsoft System centre is the
datacentre that monitors the applications and empowers the businesses. Microsoft system can
manage the cloud for retrieving the cloud spend data.

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With Microsoft system centre, the premium capabilities can be received with very less cost
(Turowski and Lenk, 2015). This system is compatible with Mac, windows and Web-based
platforms where the OpenStack is compatible with Mac, Linux and Windows.
In OpenStack, there is a system of data backup, recovery and data restoration with an
automatic software development lifecycle where the Microsoft System Centre Endpoint of
data protection with alert system.
Microsoft system centre can be managed with less effort and in a simple way, where the
OpenStack can be a little bit complex program for the users.

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References
Solaimani, M., Khan, L. and Thuraisingham, B., 2014, August. Real-time anomaly detection
over VMware performance data using storm. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th
International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2014) (pp. 458-
465). IEEE.
Turowski, M. and Lenk, A., 2015. Vertical scaling capability of OpenStack. In Service-
Oriented Computing-ICSOC 2014 Workshops (pp. 351-362). Springer, Cham.