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Diving into data centre automation

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The software-defined data centre: making the inevitable achievable

Over the past decade, the data centre has steadily evolved. It’s transforming from a mega facility, filled with disparate infrastructure that’s difficult to integrate, maintain, and manage, into a more agile business response centre. Businesses looking to refocus their IT efforts on delivering greater value are exploring ways to leverage automation to optimise utilisation and minimise waste.

Six steps to accelerating automation in the data centre

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It’s about more than just provisioning

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It’s important that businesses understand what ‘automation’ really means before setting off down this path.

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Define policy: what, when, and where

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Defining a policy relating to ‘what’ and ‘when’ to automate is a critical step.

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Don’t forget process

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Process is another critical element of the automation discussion.

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Assess architecture advances

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Technology architecture advances in recent years also influence modern approaches to data centre automation

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Bring in best practices

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Businesses looking to automate their data centre environments often struggle to understand or anticipate the effects of multi-tenancy.

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Add in analytics

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Analytic tools that allow businesses to perform predictive troubleshooting, gain visibility about how much capacity they have, decide when to automatically add capacity

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