The data center automation market will be worth $15 billion by 2010 by analsyt estimates.
Research analyst Technavio Insights has estimated that the data center automation market (which it defines as asset, configuration and change and change control and security management and IT process automation) will rocket over the next two years.
In its Data cetner automation solutions - 2008 report Technavio said: "Most organisations either manually adminsiter their servers or use stand alone solutions but with the rapid incresae in cost and complexity or manage data cetners, automation adoption will increase significatnly in the next two years.
The firm said open source and policy based form factors will gain momentum.
The US will the lead the way with a 2010 market value of $8.5 billion, APAC will be worth $2 billion and EMEA $4.7 billion.
Technavio estimated that Banking and Financial Services will account for a quarter of the market (prior to the current crisis) followed by communications, (18.6%), manufacturing (16.2%) and government (16.2%). Banks will want to identify underutilised assets need to reduce support costsa and manufacturers need to automate routine provisionsing, patch and configuration tasks.
Research analyst Technavio Insights has estimated that the data center automation market (which it defines as asset, configuration and change and change control and security management and IT process automation) will rocket over the next two years.
In its Data cetner automation solutions - 2008 report Technavio said: "Most organisations either manually adminsiter their servers or use stand alone solutions but with the rapid incresae in cost and complexity or manage data cetners, automation adoption will increase significatnly in the next two years.
The firm said open source and policy based form factors will gain momentum.
The US will the lead the way with a 2010 market value of $8.5 billion, APAC will be worth $2 billion and EMEA $4.7 billion.
Technavio estimated that Banking and Financial Services will account for a quarter of the market (prior to the current crisis) followed by communications, (18.6%), manufacturing (16.2%) and government (16.2%). Banks will want to identify underutilised assets need to reduce support costsa and manufacturers need to automate routine provisionsing, patch and configuration tasks.