INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE BUSINESS
Enterprises can solve
complexity by automation
Using vehicle and road analogies,
Massimo Ferrari at Red Hat explains
how automation can drive four key
benefits in sprawling enterprises.
M
any enterprises have now
reached a stage where
managing the scale of their IT
infrastructures is becoming a challenge
second only to increasing the speed
of provisioning. A broad spectrum of
technologies, solutions, processes, and
skillsets is available to help manage
a large-scale environment. Among
management technologies, automation is
one of the most powerful.
Automation is not merely a technology
choice. First and foremost, it is a business
choice. Without automation, supporting
the growth of your business can be
increasingly complex, to the point of
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becoming impossible beyond a certain
scale. Here are four key reasons why
automation is critical to managing a large-
scale IT environment:
Less waste
Less complexity
Less mistakes
Less uncertainty
Less waste
IT automation can help your operations
team to manage more workloads over the
same working hours, reducing the need to
hire more staff to support the growth of
the infrastructure.
Less complexity
In an enterprise environment, this
dynamic implies that some of the Lines
of Business that you are serving may
eventually start requesting services
that are outside the planned offering or
far more complex than what originally
anticipated.
Like the automatic transmission in
your car, an automation tool is designed to
deal with a large number of moving parts
at the same time, taking care of repetitive
tasks and keeping all the pieces together
while delivering predictable results.
Automation tools can simplify your
experience of deploying and maintaining
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