What is the underlying IT problem driving the need for such a specification?
The dramatic shift in enterprise computing from client-server to Internet architectures has resulted in an explosion of servers and applications in today’s data centers. In most enterprises, the resulting exponential increase in data center complexity is currently handled by armies of IT staff and dozens of disconnected management and IT systems that do not effectively communicate with one another. This has resulted in a data center management crisis. The lack of interoperability between management, emerging automation and utility computing systems prevents even the most basic IT process improvements from taking hold. A data center standard is imperative to realizing a true utility computing environment.
