| As a CIO, wouldn't you love to have the flexibility | | | | one that provides increased value as well as reducing |
| and ability to allow your operations teams to have | | | | IT service costs. |
| the freedom of automated repair and maintenance | | | | Another advantage of automated environments is |
| tasks? By implementing automated solutions into the | | | | the ability to leverage existing ?tribal knowledge? and |
| data center, you can direct your resources to handle | | | | best practices. Too often, we recruit the best of the |
| the more business critical applications. | | | | best to join a department, but literally handicap their |
| Regardless of platform, version or vendor, managing | | | | skills and knowledge because the operations is chock |
| a data center environment can be one of the more | | | | full of individuals who know a lot, but march to the |
| challenging roles within an organization. From | | | | beat of their own drum. Automation solutions can |
| virtualization, to server consolidations, migrations and | | | | provide centralization of knowledgebase articles, |
| expansions simply ensuring the day to day operations | | | | scripts and run books, allowing for documented and |
| are conducted can be overwhelming. There are many | | | | consistent implementation of standard operating |
| resources available, but data center automation is | | | | procedures (SOPs). |