Data Centre Automation

Description

Enables you to provision entire infrastructure stacks (i.e. Servers, Storage, Networks) and manage change across their lifecycles to keep your business ahead in today’s hypercompetitive markets. Automate IT management, provision new infrastructures and manage change and compliance in your data center to dramatically improve cost efficiency and reduce risk.

Compelling Business Reason (CBR)

Many IT organizations still use manual practices developed when servers were dedicated to single applications that seldom changed. Today, manual techniques are obsolete. IT needs to manage complex multi-vendor infrastructures cost-effectively while comply ing with corporate policies. And there’s only one way to meet the challenge. Automate. Especially when you consider:

(1) 80% of network budget allocated reactively to avoid network downtime;

(2) 80% of security incidents due to manual mis-configurations;

(3) 45% of network engineers time spent on manual network changes;

(4) 5x more costly to meet compliance requirements when done manually;

(5) Servers DOUBLING every 5yrs; Network devices DOUBLING every 2yrs; Terabytes of storage DOUBLING every 1yr (IDC).

Benefits

(1) Better compliance by automating responses to Sarbanes-Oxley audits and similar regulatory requirements and providing out-of-the-box compliance reports, it reduces time and expense and at the same time helps to enable total compliance;

(2) Increased availability: By enabling your IT organization to follow best practices for change and configuration management and to standardize builds and configurations at the time of deployment, it increases network, server and application availability;

(3) Minimise the impact of change on the business by capture requests in one place, automate testing, map impact before production, automate deployment, monitor change.