Познавательная статья: куда движется прогресс в области автоматизации ЦОД. Основная мысль очень проста:

Companies concentrating their datacenter automation efforts on server automation are making a strategic mistake.

That’s the view of Glenn O’Donnell, a senior analyst at Forrester Research. He believes what’s needed is a more holistic view of datacenter automation.

"It’s misguided to give server automation all your attention," he said. "You have to look at servers, the network, storage and applications together. The real magic is orchestration."

Далее выделяются 4 основных игрока на рынке средств автоматизации управления ЦОД:

The "big four," according to O’Donnell are HP (with Opsware), IBM (NYSE: IBM), BMC (with BladeLogic) and CA (NYSE: CA).

Но рынок на них не заканчивается:

… But behind them are plenty of other would-be market participants.

Perhaps the most obvious of these is VMware (NYSE: VMW), which is majority owned by EMC. It has always been very active in the management software arena, most notably with its Infrastructure 3 product for virtualized environments and its Datacenter OS [VDC-OS]. "VMware is undeniably a player, usually by acquisition," O’Donnell said. And since server virtualization is becoming increasingly important, any datacenter automation solution that comes from a virtualization vendor is bound to be viewed positively.

Интересная точка зрения про Microsoft:

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) can’t be counted out for the same reason. Clearly its Hyper-V technology is not yet as sophisticated as VMware’s virtualization technology, and its virtualization management software is not as advanced as VMware’s, but Microsoft’s System Center product, which includes a virtual machine management module, would seem like a solid base on which to build an automation system. And since Microsoft makes many corporate applications and the servers that run on them, it would seem ideally suited to understanding the infrastructure requirements of applications in general. And its partnership with Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) means that it’s gaining knowledge of Linux environments very quickly.

База м.б. у Microsoft и хорошая, но я вспоминаю старую как мир историю про Help Desk, который Microsoft пишет уже года 3, а может и больше. Такими темпами рынок завоевать будет трудно. А вы что думаете?

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