Microsoft is beefing up it’s private cloud offering by enhancing existing modules in System Center 2012, adding an application controller which disconnects apps from the OS, an orchestration module which automates application and virtual machine deployment and management tasks. Microsoft is also reducing System Center 2012′s licensing options from 113 different combinations to two editions–a standard edition and a data center edition. This is Microsoft’s big move into private cloud which should make it easier for enterprises to get into the game, but it is a first step along a longer path in Microsoft’s march to private cloud.

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