Automation: The Next Big Opportunity for the Virtualized Datacenter

Do you need scalable, repeatable and efficient processes for managing infrastructure throughout the entire application lifecycle? Do you want to minimize risk and ensure compliance with established IT policies and standards?

In short, this is a great time to leverage the power of Virtual Datacenter Automation from VMware to automate previously manual processes of IT service delivery and business continuity. This represents the entire lifecycle for managing application infrastructure—from request, to deployment and eventual decommissioning. Business continuity is ensuring fast, reliable and manageable recovery from disasters.

Automating these critical IT processes makes application developers and application admins more efficient, while allowing virtual infrastructure admins to become more responsive to business requirements, minimize risk and ensure compliance with policies and standards.

What the CIO is looking for: the ability to deliver agility to his/her environment—allowing for the ability to react quickly to changes in the business, provide better service levels to internal business stakeholders, and minimize risk. All this while balancing the need to comply with IT policies and standards.

What the virtual infrastructure admin is looking for: the ability to eliminate manual work and process endless requests—in effect, to “get the monkey off their back.” They are also looking to gain greater control and visibility of the entire virtual infrastructure.

What this enables is the ablity to discuss tough issues such as what DR plans are in place (specifically for the infrastructure) and how to protect critical systems adequately and recover in a reasonable time frame to a secondary site. If you have taken on virtualization in your infrastructure, we can also address VM provisioning and remove the manual process and tracking of VMs in your environment.

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