Abstract
The adoption of data center automation solutions is becoming increasingly
critical for IT departments, driven by the need for high availability, need to
reduce management costs, need to improve regulatory compliance, increasing
technology consumption, adoption of virtualization etc.
In addition, exponential growth in number of servers, storage devices and
network equipment has significantly increased the infrastructure complexity.
Further, while the price of servers has declined by over 50 percent in the
last decade, the cost of managing a server over its lifetime has increased
significantly.
Currently, most organizations either manually administer their servers or use
stand-alone solutions, which are incapable of managing its entire data center
portfolio. However, with the rapid increase in cost and complexity of managing
data centers, the adoption of data center automation solutions is expected to
increase significantly over the period 2008-2010.
Open source and policy-based form factors of data center automation solutions
are expected to gain momentum in the market. In addition, server automation
and configuration & change management are expected to account for a
significant share of the DCA market.
The report forecasts the market size of data center automation solutions over
the period 2007-2010. Further, the total market is segmented into various
geographic regions and verticals. The report also presents markets size for
major countries in various regions. In addition, the report identifies major
selling drivers for the data center automation solutions for the major
verticals.
This report can help IT vendors identify target geographies and verticals.
Further, the identified sales drivers can be used to penetrate the identified
vertical or increase current share of the customer' s wallet.
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