| Often IT managers are faced with the challenge | | | | demands of business operations. The days of |
| of deploying new servers, complete with | | | | manual provisioning have quickly given way to the |
| operating systems, patch updates, a host of | | | | effortless result of automated server provisioning. |
| software applications and managing regular | | | | As organizations seek to minimize and reduce |
| maintenance and security checks. Manually | | | | costs, increase efficiencty and productivity, IT |
| addressing these tasks is not only cumbersome, | | | | departments can easily leverage the benefits of |
| but if severs are in multiple locations, which in | | | | data center automation. Sharing best practices, |
| most enterprises today, they are, then it can be | | | | operating system builds, policy compliance and |
| quite costly. By automating the data center to | | | | application configurations is seamless and benefits |
| handle server provisioning tasks, CIO's can | | | | the entire department. Quality is improved, |
| present a more cost effective, reliable and | | | | security is more reliable and support is streamlined |
| productive allocation of department resources. | | | | to better reflect all devices, physical, local, virtual |
| In large server environments, something as | | | | or remote. |
| routine as releasing new versions or installing | | | | Many organizations are in desperate need of |
| updates for software applications can be | | | | better management tools and resources that |
| extremely time intensive and counterproductive | | | | promote superior means of automation. Data |
| to running a well oiled machine. In order to sustain | | | | center automation technologies designed to |
| the requirements posed on IT departments, not | | | | address server provisioning and database |
| to mention stay ahead of the never ending list of | | | | administration can save businesses valuable |
| performance requirements, organizations simply | | | | resources. In addition, a solid automated server |
| must embrace automated solutions to managing | | | | provisioning model can alleviate repetitive, manual, |
| their server infrastructures. | | | | error-prone database tasks as well as mechanize |
| Another common pain point for IT professionals, | | | | the lifecycle for your entire server infrastructure. |
| is the relentless demands leveraged by operations. | | | | Integrated end-to-end data center management |
| With the increasing mobility of today's workforce, | | | | can make running virtual servers, multiple systems |
| IT personnel must be able to update patches, | | | | and database administration tasks less painful and |
| secure systems, maintain servers and run a | | | | arduous. Whether your deployment strategy is to |
| smooth, well operated infrastructure of multiple | | | | scale up or scale out, server provisioning can be |
| locations, servers, systems and applications. An | | | | quite an undertaking. Leveraging the right tools |
| automated and policy based solution is a | | | | can help bring your server infrastructure up to |
| necessary approach and a smart move for | | | | speed and ahead of the game. |
| organizations looking to sustain the growing | | | | |