When talking about automation in the data center we think about the use of tools and processes to coordinate and execute on activities with hopes to reduce complexity, errors, labor, and costs while increasing productivity. To further automation goals, we have to consider outside influences to the data...

Data center automation (DCA) is designed to deliver value back to the business through increased levels of service and flexibility to meet business needs and demands. With increasing complexity within the data center, including but not limited to: a growing number of applications, bare metal and virtual...

The day-to-day challenges of managing the IT data center include management of its diverse and complex makeup of key systems to meet the needs of its users, but more importantly the overall business. As IT becomes more aligned with the business, IT begins to lose its longstanding identity as a "cost...