Analysts

"RBA automation is attracting considerable attention as the need to design, build, orchestrate, administer and report on workflows that support IT operations process has become a critical need that cannot be met by existing IT management approaches, such as traditional job scheduling products and custom scripting"

David Williams, Research VP, Gartner, June 2006

"Run book automation promises to provide a new way to manage IT, providing a better, more efficient way to address businesses concerns"

David Williams, Research VP, Gartner, July 2006

"The RBA tools have focused on making the job of building, administrating and monitoring IT operations processes easy"

David Williams, Research VP, Gartner, March 2007

"Automating IT operations management processes continues to be a priority for executives who are measured on improving IT operations efficiencies, yet face increasing IT infrastructure complexity and demands from their business"

David Williams, Research VP, Gartner, July 2007

"Enigmatec solutions operate at the highest levels of the virtualization management space"

"Enigmatec's EMS automation platform, significantly reduces administrative overhead, while enforcing virtual resource utilization policies"

"EMS can reduce or even eliminate much of the manual, time-consuming administrative tasks that delay new product 'time to market'."

"The underlying EMS architecture is also highly scalable and easily adaptable to changes in business demands"

John Humphreys, Program Director, IDC, January 2007

"An important solution to the increasing complexity of datacenters is the automation of repetitive scripted or manual tasks. So-called "run-book automation" (RBA) software can automate a variety of IT procedures at different levels, from orderly restarts of servers and databases, to moving suites of applications, to automatically provisioning a virtual server environment."

Stephen Elliot, Research Director, IDC, September 2007

"A market is forming around run book and runtime automation (respectively, planned and unplanned activities) within the overall enterprise management/automation sector. It will need to be baked in, Enigmatec believes, which in turn supports its goal of making orchestration into a 'first class' management concept."

William Fellows, Principal Analyst, The 451 Group, April 2007

"Scale in/scale out - adjusting resource allocation according to workloads - requires automated, policy-based management that can be used by datacenter managers, not only developers."

William Fellows, Principal Analyst, The 451 Group, 2005

"The latest generation of DCA products added more sophisticated rules with graphical policy-building interfaces and the ability to deploy complex apps. Rather than targeting utility computing scenarios, vendors like Enigmatec have positioned their products as part of an automated disaster recovery solution. For example, upon a hardware failure, automated routines can kick in and reassign the remaining resources to critical applications."

Galen Schreck, Principal Analyst, Forrester, February 2006

"Enigmatec brings a bit more intelligence to its automation and virtualization than some competitors. Policy-based management and virtualization are part of the bigger goal for overall data center automation and Enigmatec addresses the problem."

George Hamilton, Director of Enterprise Computing & Networking, Yankee Group, 2005

"By putting the intelligence in the agent, Enigmatec is providing true distributed management capabilities."

Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz and Associates, 2005