Related Technologies - Manageability 

Microsoft offers technologies designed to work seamlessly with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and further extend the value of your IT investment. You can find the recommend technologies in below section.

System Center solutions help you to ensure a reliable end-user experience with your SharePoint services by monitoring, managing, and protecting the SharePoint environment. System Center's management solution ensures maximum services availability and limits the window of liability for data loss by 98 percent while helping you to control costs. System Center includes expertise from the application teams to provide you with out-of-the-box knowledge and capabilities to improve service uptime.
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) continually protects and reliably recovers data on Microsoft application and file servers, and delivers full data protection for your SharePoint deployments. For SharePoint administrators, one simply selects the Farm as a single root object, along with the Index object. DPM then identifies all of the data components and servers necessary for protection. With DPM, a SharePoint administrator with limited backup knowledge can back up and restore their SharePoint environments.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides unified management of physical and virtual machines and consolidation of underutilized physical resources. For administrators tasked with the upkeep of virtualized SharePoint farms, VMM provides valuable tools that allow for rapid provisioning of new SharePoint servers, conversion of physical servers to Hyper-V guests and other management tasks. VMM and DPM together provide an effective and efficient disaster recovery solution for your SharePoint environment.
System Center Operations Manager is the end-to-end service management solution that helps you increase efficiency while driving greater availability of SharePoint. Through its model-based capabilities, Operations Manager delivers best-of-breed monitoring and management for the SharePoint service. When coupled with the Management Packs for SharePoint, administrators are able to monitor their deployments with greater ease and accuracy, helping to ensure that SharePoint health and performance is maintained.
System Center Essentials is a unified management solution designed for IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot their IT environments. Essentials helps you proactively monitor your IT environment, simplifies complex management tasks, and automates system updates and data collection for your IT environment. Essentials uses the SharePoint Management Pack to provide you with out-of-the-box knowledge to proactively identify and resolve problems before they occur.