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The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
Posted:  25 Apr 2008
Published:  15 Apr 2008
Format:  PDF
Length:  13   Page(s)
Type:  Analyst Report
Language:  English


ABSTRACT:
IT departments must spend a significant amount of time provisioning and deploying resources to meet the demands of their business. A key component of overall IT costs and meeting service levels is the amount of labor spent on maintaining and continuously improving the IT environment.

The major pain points in data centers today are:
  • Understanding what resources are available
  • Facing the challenges of change
  • Reducing cost and labor
  • Following processes

Data center automation suites contain four functional areas:
  • Comprehensive discovery
  • Configuration and change management
  • IT process orchestration
  • Change

This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and HP is The Unified Data Center Automation Front-Runner.


Authors

Evelyn Hubbert
Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Evelyn, who is with Forrester, is the Operations Lead Expertise Practice Principal for America's BTO practice, to include ITSM, Service Driven Operations, and Change and Configuration. She has over 26 years of experience in Information Technology and Management Consulting in various industries including the Government, Telecom, Manufacturing and Financial.

Simon Yates

Galen Schreck

Rachel Batiancila



BROWSE RELATED RESOURCES
Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Change and Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Fault Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software

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