2008 Trends to Watch: IT Systems Management

Publication Date	February 2008
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	5
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT10668

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Summary

Introduction

This brief highlights the main trends that Datamonitor anticipates for 2008 in the IT systems management market.

Scope

Provides an overview of the principal challenges facing IT systems management vendors in 2008.
Details Datamonitor's take on the future of IT systems management both from a technology and business perspective.
Discusses strategies that could help IT systems management vendors and their clients to position themselves to benefit from these trends.

Highlights

Network management and IT management are essentially becoming one discipline and Datamonitor believes this represents a substantial opportunity for IT systems management vendors in 2008.

Datamonitor anticipates that measuring application performance and speed will become a key requirement of IT systems management, especially for customer-facing and other time-sensitive applications.

The demand for power management solutions that lead to 'green IT' will explode in 2008 and IT systems management solutions will be a key component in power saving strategies.

Reasons to Purchase

Learn about the major trends affecting the IT systems management space over the course of 2008.
Understand the challenges that IT systems management vendors and their clients will face in 2008.
Identify potential strategies that could allow stakeholders in the market to minimize risk and maximize rewards through 2008.

Content

Datamonitor View
Catalyst
Summary
Analysis
- The Demand for Power Management Solutions That Lead to 'Green IT' Will Explode in 2008
- Virtualization Is Already Used Extensively, However Enterprises Still Need to Manage IT Effectively to Reap Its Promised Benefits
- A Wave of Virtualization Management Deployments Will Follow The Rapid Deployment of Virtualization
- Convergence Is Causing The Network Management and IT Management Markets to Merge
- The Need to Manage Converged Networks Is Present in All Enterprises, Not Only Telcos
- The Focus of Application Management Will Shift from Ensuring Availability to Ensuring Quality of Service and Speed of Service
- Storage Management Solutions Will Expand Their Scope to Include Additional Governance and Security Functionality
Actions
- Impact on IT Systems Management Customers
- Recommendations for IT Systems Management Vendors
Appendix
- Methodology
- Further Reading
- Ask The Analyst
- Datamonitor Consulting
- Disclaimer