Abstract
This IDC study analyzes the idea of datacenter automation, and it looks across
the impact that automation has on IT service delivery, cost reduction, and
business impact.
"Datacenter automation is a top investment priority for delivering on business
outcomes for the large majority of IT organizations that participated in this
study," according to Tim Grieser, vice president, Enterprise System Management.
"According to survey respondents, automation needs to support management of
multiple IT silos including servers, storage, and networks. Automation is
viewed as very important for managing virtualized environments and as a use
case that is poised to grow rapidly with increasing deployment of
virtualization for production workloads."
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Methodology
- Figure: Respondents by Company Size
- Figure: Respondents by Title
- Situation Overview
- Automation and Virtualization
- Automating Across Silos
- Figure: Automation as Top Investment Priority
- Figure: Domains Covered by Automation Solution
- Figure: Areas of Importance: Automation
- Figure: Importance of Automation
- Figure: Key Challenges in Managing Virtualized Environments
- Cost Efficiency and Process Standardization
- Figure: Most Likely Business Cases for Automation Solutions
- Figure: Incident and/or Problem Resolution Isolation Time
- Figure: Automation Impact on Change and Release Management
- Figure: Virtualization and Fluctuating Business Demands
- Figure: Estimated Trends in Changes for Next Year
- Figure: Major Challenges in Change, Configuration, and Release Management
- IT' s Increasing Maturity
- Figure: Use of Standardized Processes
- Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption
- Figure: Key Areas for Virtualization Adoption
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
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