Data Center Automation – What It Needs and what It Lacks

Change is the key and change is inevitable.. Corporations have been identifying these future trends and so they are aligning themselves to more of data center automation  Managing the change doesn't only provide a competitive edge over others but it also allows you to stay ahead of the Industry.

But are organization’s really able to capture the needs of their clients with relation to services offered and upon what measure are the Products matching the business needs.

There is an intense need of responsiveness in the virtualization services that are offered for other companies by their IT departments. Data Center Automation has gained much popularity in the recent past with many organizations having automated the movement of servers and their associated data through the use of VMware's vMotion and Storage vMotion. These tools provide continuous application availability during routine server maintenance activities and an improved business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) posture. But network automation lags. According to Mark Fabbi of Gartner, "Automated application provisioning allows applications to be rapidly deployed, but the 'human middleware' of network operations can delay deployment for days or weeks.1"

According to Forrester, "The amount of innovation that has transpired within the data center LAN over the last four years almost equals the last 15 years of the campus LAN, branch WAN/LAN, and wireless LAN innovation, and the rapid innovation will continue.2"

The Data Center is changing, and so are expectations/requirements for data center networks. The move toward a, cloud-style approach to IT service delivery that enterprises now expect means that the data center network must join server and storage environments under a unified management/automation umbrella. Because data flows in the next generation data center are primarily server-to-server and server-to-storage, a logical starting point in the move to new network architecture is within the data center itself.
 Few of the SME‘s in the US have been identified where such need has been recognized and their products have proven successful with their small scale client businesses.

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