With the right automation in place, your IT infrastructure can become a strategic asset to get your company out ahead of competitors. Thoughtfully chosen automation tools can enable IT operations to manage IT infrastructure for: higher availability and reliability; faster recovery from outages; better scalability; better auditability; more frequent delivery of better-quality code; and for more business intelligence to inform business strategy.
Sysadmins can leverage automation to deliver:
- Higher availability and reliability of IT services for greater utilization & efficiency
- Fewer outages, and faster recovery from them, for better service to both internal and external customers
- Quick remediation in response to security alerts such as Heartbleed or Shellshock
- Automated enforcement of company policies, industry best practices & regulatory compliance
- Rich reporting for company management, internal and external auditors
- Responsive, efficient scaling
- Full utilization and benefits of IT technologies such as virtualization and cloud
- More frequent releases of higher-quality code to improve customer experience
- Deep business intelligence to aid decision making and inform business strategy
With the right automation in place, your IT team can become a resource for innovation. You’ll be equipped to navigate the fast-changing technology landscape, and have the resources you need to drive a winning strategy for the 21st century.