The IT Management Vendor Landscape Becomes More Cloudy
by Richard Muirhead | 03 Jun 2008 | Permalink |
IT Management, Virtualization
Virtualisation in the data center clearly requires management…and in particular it heightens the importance of clear and precise technology or business service context – see for example Does B-hive Acquisition Make VMware a Cloud Vendor? in which James Staten, principal analyst with Forrester Research, “lauds another feature of B-hive’s Conductor — its ability to map dependencies among different VM’s that make up a business process. Calling dependency mapping the biggest problem with high availability, Staten says “you may do HA services or clustering or fast re-start for a particular application, but usually a business process involves multiple applications, and not knowing what those dependencies are is problematic.”
But does this present an opportunity for the big 4 Systems Management vendors (HP, CA, IBM, BMC) to subsume the virtualisation management startups (see Oedipus meets IT management?) or in fact a chance for purveyors of fine virtualisation hypervisor technologies (Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sun etc) to capitalise on this significant disruption to eat the somewhat comfortable Big 4 from within?
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