By: Shenning

Shenning — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:45:11 +0000

I agree that 2008 will be a year of huge growth in DCA. DCA will also be extended past traditional automation areas such as patch management and provisioning, into performance and availability management. With a growing number of devices and increased complexity around initiatives like virtualization and SOA, IT Operations is at a crossroads where traditional systems management tools and manual efforts can no longer scale. There is simply too much data to deal with effectively and with IT budgets being kept flat or even being reduced, simply throwing more people at the problem is not viable. I think we’ll see a move towards automation in performance and availability management through real time analytics-based solutions. At the Gartner Data Center show in Las Vegas this year, a poll of IT professionals indicated that systems management tool’s lack of analytics capability was the number one inhibitor in solving performance problems in virtualized environments. It is clear that 2008 will be a big one for Data center automation.

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By: Shenning