EMA Analyst Report: Managing Virtualized Environments in Application Context with EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager v6.0

As more and more VMs are deployed, they must be managed with the same rigor as any system. Administrators need to put in more time and effort managing configurations, patches, software levels and security; and they must monitor many more systems for performance, penetration, resource utilization, and more. This in turn increases the cost of managing virtual environments, and greatly reduces the potential cost benefits of virtualization.

This report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) discusses these virtualization management issues and how EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager v6.0 addresses these challenges.