Microsoft is upgrading System Center so businesses can manage data-center resources under a single platform regardless of whether those resources are spread out across private, public and hybrid clouds or within Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.

In addition, Microsoft has made it possible to extend System Center Configuration Manager to its cloud-based management service called Intune as a way to manage the compliance of endpoints including PCs and a range of mobile devices.

The company talks about the new versions of these products as a means for managing its Cloud OS, the name it has given to the combination of Windows Server and Azure that result in a flexible environment where customers can add and remove capacity as needed and take advantage of cost savings that can come with public cloud use.

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