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Analysis: IT Automation

 
 
ANALYSIS:
IT AUTOMATION

OUR LOGIC IS UNDENIABLE: SELF-HEALING, SELF- PROVISIONING NETWORKS THAT EASE PROCESS AND CHANGE CONTROL ARE OUR FUTURE. WANT A TASTE NOW? READ ON...

Techies have always had a penchant for processes that run themselves. We build scripts for our servers, macros for our clients and engage in constant, obsessive pursuit of total instrumentation of our organizations' IT operations.

Yet though robotic efficiencies have long been a staple of Detroit's assembly lines, the industry that conceived this grand vision has barely begun to enjoy the fruits of automation. Incredibly, it's been about three years since Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive Enterprise and IBM's autonomic computing theologies electrified us with tales of servers reconfiguring themselves and networks that would wrap around cable cuts, freeing IT from the drudgery of operational expenses.

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