| Many organizations are in desperate need of better | | | | solutions available today, many of the IT tasks |
| management tools and resources that promote | | | | associated with this process can be automated. There |
| superior means of automation. Data center automation | | | | are a number of vendors vying for the automation and |
| technologies designed to address server provisioning | | | | virtual management space. Companies like Stratavia, |
| and database administration can save businesses | | | | HP and BMC deliver organizations the very tools |
| valuable resources. In addition, a solid data center | | | | needed at a time of emerging technologies, abundance |
| automation technology can streamline and alleviate | | | | of legacy platforms and an ever mobile workforce. |
| repetitive, manual, error-prone database tasks as well | | | | Often working within data center constraints such as |
| as mechanize the lifecycle for your entire server | | | | budget, space, power, asset utilization and capacity, |
| infrastructure. | | | | automation tools can execute efficiently and in a |
| Most IT organizations attend to a number of criteria | | | | cost-conducive manner. Database administration, |
| from reliability, performance, customization capability | | | | server provisioning and data center management |
| and support on a daily basis. Automation tools can | | | | automation solutions save time, improve productivity |
| remove many of these manual tasks and free up | | | | and reduce costs. Automation tools give IT |
| valuable IT resources for more prominent and labor | | | | departments the flexibility and agility to address the |
| intensive requirements. | | | | insurmountable responsibilities and everyday requests, |
| Integrated end-to-end data center management can | | | | while reducing costs and data center power |
| make running virtual servers, multiple systems and | | | | expenditures. Automating services such as proactive |
| database administration tasks less painful and arduous. | | | | data protection and security, error checking features, |
| With the increasing demands and ever populating | | | | better management of server consolidations and data |
| communication tools, IT managers necessitate better | | | | intensive applications, plus balancing critical applications |
| configuration controls and methods for managing | | | | with everyday usage requirements are just a few |
| servers, systems, devices and applications, | | | | benefits of a well defined automation system. |
| implementing an automation as the inevitable solution. | | | | Whatever your data center requirements may be, |
| Whether your deployment strategy is geared around | | | | working with proven technology can greatly eliminate |
| the desire to scale up or scale out, server provisioning | | | | many of the pain points your IT department continually |
| can be quite an undertaking. However, with the | | | | endures. |