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Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) defines DCA as a set of IT management disciplines aimed at automating system and application management activities within medium-or large- scale centralized computing environments.

CIOs and enterprise practitioners should understand software products that provide just one of two management disciplines are still part of a broader category of DCA solutions, but they should be wary of restrictive definitions that try to pigeonhole all of DCA into just one or two disciplines- typically management, provisioning, and process automation.

Data Center Automation is a growing area of IT that is seeing a strong up-tick in interest and activity among enterprises and vendors alike.

So while DCA is a strong, mature set of disciplines that shows exceptional benefits, it also faces some hurdles. Enterprises deploying DCA need to be careful to avoid some of these pitfalls, but should look to the substantial rewards it can provide.

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