the 451 group

"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