From batch scheduling to workload automation

Today batch scheduling has evolved from single platform automation to cross platform and cross application scheduling. The rich features provided by the tools effectively reduced the complexity for batch monitoring and managing. It seems everything needed for batch scheduling is available and the users are satisfied. However, history tells us that nothing stays the same in IT; technology needs to grow and improve, otherwise it gets replaced by other newer and better technologies, and batch scheduling is not an exception.

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In Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling 2009 edition, it stated right at the beginning "Job scheduling, a mature market, is undergoing a transformation toward IT Workload ...

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