| When industry's most demanding companies need to | | | | predictability. |
| increase the power of their data center investments | | | | Confirmation of the customization capabilities will help |
| and sustain the growing demand of IT services, they | | | | determine if the solution can work with even the |
| look for automation tools to better control the | | | | most complex of environments. It is also wise to |
| performance, security, compliance and availability of | | | | look at the various change management tools |
| applications, machines and servers. IT management | | | | designed to improve servers, storage and |
| requires a platform that can integrate with their | | | | networking, all of which are critical to an organization's |
| existing infrastructure, driving greater value | | | | data center automation requirements. Lastly, by |
| throughout the organization. IT managers struggle to | | | | ensuring that the configuration management capability |
| find the right tools to automate business system | | | | is sufficient for the organizations data center needs is |
| administration. The solution is a technology | | | | imperative. |
| architecture that provides organizations the ability to | | | | Standardizing business rules and procedures is |
| sustain applications, infrastructure requirements and | | | | conducive for transparent managed resources. Data |
| IT processes. | | | | center automation can reduce labor and hardware |
| Medium to large enterprises must be setup to | | | | costs, and improve IT availability and responsiveness. |
| adequately monitor and measure the performance of | | | | The result is more productive administrators and a |
| the data center environment. Managing tasks from | | | | higher level of quality IT service. Automation for |
| troubleshooting, performing analysis and conducting | | | | pre-determined conditions can alleviate the headaches |
| basic metrics is an ongoing battle. In the typical data | | | | normally associated with manually implementing these |
| center landscape, application management can be | | | | required operations. By scheduling and automating IT |
| quite an undertaking. Large enterprises may have | | | | tasks such as system maintenance, server |
| thousands of servers, sustaining numerous | | | | provisioning, deployments, migrations, ITIL service |
| applications. | | | | management and database backups, IT resources |
| In order to effectively manage the alignment of | | | | are better aligned with the operational needs. |
| business needs and IT provision requirements, data | | | | Whether you are looking for a stand alone application |
| center automation is a necessity. Supporting, running | | | | management solution where simple process |
| and serving the potentially thousands of applications, | | | | management tasks such as starting, stopping or |
| processes and services can be costly, in terms of | | | | monitoring applications; or a complete IT automation |
| time, money and valuable IT resources. | | | | solution, for multi-tier management of one or more |
| Standardization of the provisioning process lays the | | | | application servers, Web servers and various |
| groundwork for successful data center automation. | | | | applications, data center automation is essential. |
| By automating the server provisioning best practices | | | | Deploying cutting-edge technology, can improve the |
| of an organization, servers are provisioned identically, | | | | availability and performance of applications and |
| providing consistent quality and higher levels of | | | | services both internally and externally. |