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rPath Buttons Up Software Automation And Control: Page 2 of 2

While he likes the product concept, Garbani cautions that better education of IT organizations will need to happen to make it a success. "Whether they like it or not, IT will be facing exponential growth in complexity and increased pressure to improve productivity. rPath is one element that is needed to make this progress possible."

From an overall market perspective, the Forrester analyst thinks the biggest trend is the consequence of infrastructure abstraction: Virtualization and its extension in cloud computing are offering a choice of service delivery platforms to IT organizations that did not exist before. "IT can now compare different solutions and select the most cost-effective one. But to do this, the service has to be portable and self-configurable to give It the possibility of exercising the choice."

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