Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2006

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7 July 2006

Donna Scott Thomas J. Bittman Debra Curtis Ronni J. Colville Milind Govekar Dave Russell Cameron Haight Robert E. Passmore Will Cappelli Paul McGuckin John Enck Ed Holub Carl Claunch George J. Weiss John R. Phelps

Real-time infrastructure has posted some significant gains during this, its fifth year of a minimum 10-year journey. Significant technology hype, standardization and process inhibitors still exist.

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Table of Contents

1.0

What You Need to Know

2.0

The Hype Cycle

3.0

The Priority Matrix

4.0

On the Rise

4.1		Model/Policy-Based Software Architecture Design Tools
4.2		Model/Policy-Based Software Architecture
4.3		Service Billing
4.4		Aggregated Virtualization
4.5		Service Governor
4.6		Automated Storage Provisioning
4.7		Root Cause Analysis Tools

5.0

At the Peak

5.1		IT Service Provisioning
5.2		Standardized Infrastructure Stacks
5.3		IT Management Process Maturity
5.4		Virtual Machine — Hypervisor
5.5		Business Service Management

6.0

Sliding Into the Trough

6.1		Grid Computing
6.2		Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
6.3		Shared OS Virtualization (Nonmainframe)
6.4		SAN Management
6.5		IT Chargeback Tools
6.6		Virtual Machine — OS-Based

7.0

Climbing the Slope

7.1		Hardware Partitioning
7.2		High-Performance Computing Clusters

8.0

Entering the Plateau

8.1

Horizontal Scaling

9.0

Appendices

9.1		Previous Iteration of the Hype Cycle
9.2		Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2006

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2006

	Figure 3.	For Reference: Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2004

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