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January 12, 2005

Selecting A Data Center Automation Vendor

by Galen Schreck

with Laura Koetzle, Thomas Powell


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Data center automation (DCA) products have grown from simple provisioning tools to general-purpose platforms for configuration management and automation of IT operations. Increasing product complexity has made finding a good fit for your specific environment more difficult. This report provides criteria for evaluating data center automation products as well as numerical scores for each vendor's product suite.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemData Center Automation's Roots In Server Provisioning

itemData Center Automation Continues To Expand Its Footprint

itemTwo Main Camps Define Data Center Automation

itemComparison Results For Life-Cycle Management

itemLow-Cost Alternatives For Data Center Automation

itemComparison Results For Utility Computing

recommendations

itemThe Journey To Data Center Automation Is Still Complicated

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed 16 vendor and user companies, including Altiris, BladeLogic, BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Opsware, Sun Microsystems, and VERITAS.

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Analyst: Galen Schreck
Technology: Data Center Management, IT Infrastructure & Operations, IT Process Automation, Systems Management
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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