Report Touts Automation Savings

By The WHIR, August 31, 2006
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August 31, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center automation is cited as a key recommendation for bringing down the cost of managing large numbers of physical and virtual servers, according to a report titled "Pragmatic Approaches to Server Virtualization," recently conducted by Forrester Research.

Citing the report, data center solution provider Opsware (opsware.com) said this week it can provide an integrated solution for data center automation. By automating labor-intensive management chores such as provisioning, change management, patching and updating, Opsware helps to ensure a higher level of consistency, quality and security across the entire data center infrastructure.

The company's IT automation software manages virtual servers in the same manner as physical servers, ensuring the same policies are applied, configurations are consistent and patches are up to date.

"Virtualization and data center automation are highly complementary. When deployed together, they can provide significantly greater savings on both hardware and software management costs," says Tim Howes, CTO at Opsware. "Data center automation is must-have technology for any customer deploying virtualization at scale. It provides the ability to manage virtual machines in the same manner as physical servers without adding incremental cost."

Additional findings from the Forrester report include that removal of barriers to server growth, like cost and real estate, lead many firms to fear a boom in the number of new virtual machines they'll have to manage, and almost 60 percent of respondants are already using server virtualization in some context and the most popular environments for server virtualization are mostly infrastructure applications.

The Forrester report was based on a survey of over 50 IT leaders across North America.

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