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April 23 2009, 01:43 PM
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Ben Scheerer
In lean economic times, automation can represent an opportunity for IT to reduce cost through more efficient practices and processes. But while you can usually gain some efficiency with a lower level of automation, an automation strategy can’t achieve full business value unless it’s guided by sound business principals. Without the proper business context organizations may end up automating processes with the least business value and devoting resources to the wrong services. We at CA have developed a unique approach to automation termed Business-Driven Automation (BDA). BDA aligns to the context of the business and helps organizations achieve step gains in efficiency as they grow in their automation capabilities. An organization’s automation...
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By: Ben Scheerer
In the position of Senior Principal of Product Marketing, Ben Scheerer manages solutions marketing for CA’s Virtualization and Cloud Management initiatives. Ben’s 17 years of industry experience has run the course of software sales, consulting to product and solutions marketing. Ben’s contributions...
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April 23 2009, 10:59 AM
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Stephen Elliot
In our customer discussions with IT and business executives, one thing is ringing clear in 2009; Virtualization is becoming a strategic investment, architecture, and underpinning (across multiple IT domains) for the delivery of IT services. While cost savings have traditionally dominated the decision to use virtualization, CIOs are telling us that, while important, cost is becoming a secondary factor. The decision to use virtualization as a “Strategic Managed Architecture” (SMA) has emerged. In fact, most CIOs believe their SMA success hinges on best in class management, integrated with the physical management investments. We believe that a trend evolution is upon IT whereby C-level aspirations can no longer be met with virtualization in stand...
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By: Stephen Elliot
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior...
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April 23 2009, 10:54 AM
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CA Community
How often have you been Googling to find information, or sitting on a travel website watching a spinning dial on your screen while time is wasting away and you could be updating your Facebook, getting LinkedIn or tweeting on Twitter. Man, the world has changed in just 25 years. When you hear the term ‘Data Center Automation’, some of you may be thinking, “That was done a long time ago, what’s new with that?” In the late 80’s there was a big push to achieve the sometimes elusive “Lights-Out Data Center”. Big budgets were spent on job scheduling software, console automation software for the mainframe (unix servers were just rolling in the door), robotic tape drives so operators did not have to find and mount tapes in order for data to be processed...
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