Cloud Computing: EMC, VMware, Cisco Earn Top Scores for Data Center Management
October 19, 2012
Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Esther Shein.
EMC’s Unified Infrastructure Manager earned the highest score for overall performance in InformationWeek’s IT Pro Ranking: Data Center Management report. The report targeted data center management software that automates, orchestrates and monitors data center resources.
Three hundred fifty-seven IT pros who use or have used and evaluated data center management products evaluated 10 products on a variety of criteria, including general performance and data center-specific criteria. In addition to EMC, survey respondents weighed in on products from Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec and VMware. Note that other vendors, including CA, BMC and ServiceNow, were included in the initial survey but did not receive a sufficient number of respondents for their results to be reported…
EMC earned a score of 78% for overall performance, the highest among vendors evaluated. Just behind EMC was a three-way tie among VMware’s vCloud Director and vCenter Operations Management Suite and Cisco’s Intelligent Automation for Cloud, all of which earned scores of 75%. The overall performance category includes criteria such as product reliability, product performance, and operation and acquisition costs…
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