MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Management at the Edge in Industry Verticals

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Management at the Edge in Industry Verticals: "Enterprises today need to be agile and flexible enough to rapidly adapt to changing business conditions by bringing new products and services to market, adjusting internally to support business changes, and tightly controlling risks. Management is critical in achieving these goals. The IT department must be able to monitor systems and discover problems and resolve them before they affect the operations; however, the legacy infrastructure used for management is consuming the majority of the enterprise's IT budget in costly maintenance activities, leaving few resources to make the IT advances required. This paper provides the importance of management at the edge in the industry verticals and how Microsoft products can help in this area. "