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