Back in 2007, Microsoft released its system center product suite. It had four main components:
- Configuration manager: Allows organizations to manage device configuration centrally with software distribution
- Operation manager: SCOM provides advanced monitoring for systems and applications
- Orchestrator: Allows us to automate manual management tasks in the infrastructure using runbooks
- Data protection manager: Allows us to back up and restore systems and data in the infrastructure
This solution was purely to manage on-premises infrastructure. But in today's infrastructures, workloads are moving in to the public cloud completely or partially. Therefore, Microsoft started bringing this on-premises infrastructure management to Azure Cloud to provide a unified solution for cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures. As an example, the Microsoft...
