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sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Posted:
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25 Apr 2008
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Published:
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15 Apr 2008
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Format:
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PDF
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Length:
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13
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Type:
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Analyst Report
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Language:
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English
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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.
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Authors
Evelyn Hubbert
Sr Analyst, Forrester Research
Evelyn serves IT infrastructure and operations professionals. Covering IT systems management, her current research focuses on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the realization and population of a configuration and change management database (CMDB), business service management (BSM), and many other aspects of infrastructure system management.
Simon Yates
Galen Schreck
Rachel Batiancila
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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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