Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2009

ID Number: G00169723

29 July 2009

Donna Scott Ronni J. Colville Kris Brittain Carl Claunch Debra Curtis David Williams John R. Phelps Dave Russell Milind Govekar Will Cappelli Stewart Buchanan Philip Dawson Daryl C. Plummer Rakesh Kumar Thomas J. Bittman Naveen Mishra Andrew Butler Jeffrey Hewitt

RTI continues making gains, spurred on by the spread of virtualization in the data center and by the desire to bring cloud attributes such as self-service provisioning to the internal data center. However, significant technology, standardization, organizational and process inhibitors still exist.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

Off The Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		Model-/Policy-Based Software Architecture Design Tools
		Cloud-Based Grid Computing
		Service Billing
		IT Service Failover Automation
		Release Management Tools
		Application Transaction Profiling
		IT Workload Automation Broker Tools
		Energy Management Software Tools
		Physical Resource and Infrastructure Management Tools

At the Peak

		Elasticity
		Automated Storage Provisioning
		Service Governor
		Root Cause Analysis Tools
		Run Book Automation
		Virtualization Software Licensing

Sliding Into the Trough

		x86 Live Migration
		Business Service Management Tools
		x86 Server Virtualization
		Network Configuration and Change Management Tools
		Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
		Standardized Infrastructure Stacks/Patterns
		IT Management Process Maturity
		IT Change Management Tools
		Blade Servers
		IT Chargeback Tools

Climbing the Slope

		Server Repurposing
		Virtualization
		Test Lab Provisioning
		Grid Computing Not Using Public Cloud Computers

Entering the Plateau

Mainframe Service Governor: z/OS Workload Manager

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

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, 2009

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2009

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2008

Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2009
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