Services for next-gen DCA solutions
Within the context of today's virtualized environments, data center automation (DCA) solutions allow IT organizations to automate a variety of workflows supporting configuration and change management processes across the IT infrastructure. Even with mostly flat IT budgets, users and businesses rely on computing resources and services to do their jobs.
To meet these increasing demands, IT operates as a service provider, with the goal of providing better and faster services to clients while reducing cost and improving efficiency.
Ideally, the resources would manage themselves, but in reality IT departments must spend a significant amount of time provisioning and deploying resources to meet the demands of their business.
A major part of overall IT costs for meeting service levels comes from the amount of labor spent on continuously maintaining and improving the IT environment.
Today, the main issues that data centers face are:
- Having a working understanding of the types of available resources.
- Facing issues arising out of change.
- Reducing cost and labor.
- Following the process.
Why DCA and virtualization
DCA plays huge part in the ongoing battle to drive down costs through automation. DCA helps automate IT systems management processes, across technology domains, and helps organizations use virtualization technology, which helps reduce IT expenditures and TCO. It also helps set the strategy and direction for organizations to reduce energy expenditure.
