In a recent article titled “Ready to automate data center management?” James Urquhart points out that “few organizations had made the decision to systematically automate” data center management, and adds,”If you don’t have an automation pilot in your budget for this fiscal year, I would seriously recommend planning one for the next cycle. I would also strongly recommend that system administrators begin to think about how they would automate their jobs.”
I couldn’t agree more and would like to stress the importance of application service automation.
Modern data centers are very different from traditional data centers. The main challenge of modern data centers is not primarily the number of servers, it is the complexity of the multi-tier applications that run on those servers.
Deployment, changes and configurations, troubleshooting, recovery, expansion and other repeated processes on complex applications with multiple tiers, large numbers of servers, and specific dependencies between application components is challenging. Add to that the complexity of running applications on virtual or cloud environments.
Let me repeat: Modern data center applications are complex. Relying on error-prone manual and scripted processes to service and maintain data center applications often results in costly application downtime caused by human errors.
This is where new automation and management tools, such as Nolio’s, become useful.
In the high-stakes world of application availability, this is something your business cannot afford. Data center application service automation is the answer.
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Nolio Application Service Automation is a software platform for designing and executing automated application service workflows across the data center, enabling reliable, effective processes for the management of application change.
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