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	January 12, 2005 Selecting A Data Center Automation Vendor by Galen Schreck with Laura Koetzle, Thomas Powell

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Data Center Automation's Roots In Server Provisioning
• Two Main Camps Define Data Center Automation

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