Data center automation

By Denise Dubie, NetworkWorld.com, 01/24/05

Forrester Research recently put out a paper detailing how enterprise companies should select a data center automation vendor.

In the report, companies such as BladeLogic and Opsware were evaluated for their effectiveness in providing software to automate tasks such as provisioning, patching and software distribution. According to Forrester, "Offering the most detailed configuration management capability of any vendor in the study, BladeLogic Operations Manager models services and configuration elements across platforms." Opsware also made points with Forrester: "With the strongest support for highly distributed data centers, Opsware is extremely customizable and can model even the most complex application environments." Yet maybe Opsware is aware of BladeLogic's strength with configs, since Opsware did a little pre-holiday shopping to pick up configuration management point player Rendition Networks.

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The manufacturing industry got revolutionized by the CAD/CAM software - I see a similar requirement for data centre design. There is an emerging need for data centre design and change management tools which can carve servers, storage and networking - in an optimal and performant way - suited for an organizations requirements - instead of incrementally growing capacity based on past usage and gut feel and whatever is latest available hardware? Such an Data centre automation tool will help reduce TCO, help optimal capacity planning and efficient change management in a data centre. Do you see this trend/requirement in near future? Are there any tools available which address data centres?

Posted by: Shaloo Shalini on February 7, 2005 12:45 PM

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