 Network/Systems ManagementThis newsletter is sponsored by SolarWindsNetwork World's Network/Systems Management Newsletter, 06/11/07Network, server, application management, and the list goes on …By Denise DubiePart of the reason the network industry can support so many and such varied management technology providers is that there are myriad facets to monitoring, measuring and ultimately controlling the IT elements making up today's distributed networks. This is also the reason I am never at a loss for news and trends to cover. Recently market research firm Forrester Research released a series of reports on the top four management software providers: BMC, CA, HP and IBM. The industry watchers also did their homework on these vendors and many others in another series of reports looking at five management market segments. Among the technology areas are network management, IT application management software, event management, server management and job scheduling software for both mainframe and distributed networks. As a whole, Forrester estimates the technology areas combined represent about a $7.5 billion market for existing vendors, potential success for newcomers grabbing VC funding and a wealth of tools for IT buyers. Breaking it down, the grand-daddy of all the management technologies, network management, represents a $2.6 billion market today and will top out around $2.9 billion in 2007, Forrester predicts. The firm says the increase in market size could be attributed to today's trend of managing once disparate components as a cohesive whole to tackle performance across the entire IT service spectrum.
"The more companies manage business services and the infrastructure pieces related to these business services, the more important network management will be as it provides the pipes upon which these business services run," the Forrester report reads. Next up is IT application management software. This market is also undergoing a bit of a growth spurt, about 9% from 2006 to 2007, Forrester says, reaching about $2.098 billion this year. The reasoning for its growth includes companies use of technologies such as Web services and the adoption of trends like service-oriented architecture (SOA). "The introduction of these technologies and the trends toward using service-oriented architecture and Web services increase the complexity of applications, as the dependency of enterprises on these applications is at least the same or increased," Forrester reports. The market for job scheduling software for mainframe and distributed systems -- although mature -- is also expected to grow from the millions to more than a $1.1 billion market in 2007. On the mainframe side, large established vendors rule (think BMC, CA and IBM as well as ASG) but for distributed systems things can vary. While large enterprises depend on their mainframe job scheduling tools for their distributed environments, small and midsize business turn to other "tier 2" vendors such as AppWorx, Argent, Tidal and UC4 Software. The event management market is also expected to grow in 2007, up by 8% to more than $1 billion, partially fueled by an abundance of existing tools already in IT shops today. Incident and problem management initiatives will drive the growth for these technologies, which Forrester says could be seen as helpful in consolidating multiple events and alerts from numerous management consoles. This type of technology also provides a bit of that nirvana IT managers are seeking: real-time insight into all IT components across a heterogeneous environment. Lastly, Forrester assesses the server management market, the smallest of this bunch. While expected to grow 3% to more than $400 million in 2007, Forrester says the reason for "this lackluster performance is market saturation." But expect to see a trend toward server virtualization in production environments change this over the next year or so, Forrester says. "Virtualization will certainly revive the need for better monitoring of server usage and an adjustment in the way the server capacity is distributed between the different virtual machines. The impact of virtualization on server management has not yet been felt, but will be within the next 12 to 14 months," the report reads.
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