Ever have one of those days where you feel like you’re
just running to stand still, like you’re on a treadmill cranked too
high and can’t be shut off? Too often this is what working in IT is like
now!
Big data. Mobile.
Cloud. These intense forces are reshaping IT environments. The result?
More systems and applications to manage than ever.
According
to IDC research, the average number of Virtual Machines per physical
server is predicted to double between 2008 and 2016. The percentage of
data center IT operations costs spent on staff is up 40% in the last 5
years. On average, a substantial majority of IT budgets gets eaten up by
maintenance — in other words, running to stand still.
Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency
The
problem, of course, is that if you’re working hard to just stand still,
you’ll eventually fall behind. IT organizations have become very
focused on Improving IT staff productivity and operational efficiency,
as well as implementing common tools, services, processes across cloud
and non-cloud environments.
A
growing number of forward-thinking IT organizations are aggressively
investing in automation and orchestration solutions. They recognize that
expanding automation and orchestration initiatives is a key stepping
stone to achieving many other priorities, like accelerating cloud
initiatives.
By
orchestrating IT processes — coordinating automated tasks and activities
across teams, tools, and environments — organizations reduce errors and
improve consistency and reliability. They can also enable their team to
deploy new infrastructure faster while responding more quickly to
issues. A majority of IT organizations have reduced task and process
execution time by 50% or more, and many achieve greater than 75%
efficiency gains.
These are
clearly valuable benefits in their own right for the time and money
saved. But automation and orchestration offers an even greater strategic
advantage: it relieves staff from executing time-consuming manual tasks
and instead lets them focus on other, more innovative initiatives.
Managing IT with less hands-on, manual intervention across the organization helps break the tread mill run!
Find
out how orchestration can empower higher IT service quality and more
innovative services. Take a look at the HP Toolkit for IT Orchestration
to discover just how big the benefits can be, and how to get started on
the road to service-centric IT:
- See how orchestration helps you maximize the advantages of the cloud
- Explore the business advantages of orchestration with an infographic that shows how orchestration is delivering 75% efficiency gains with scale from 1-100K+ servers
- Read real-world case-studies about the staggering benefits HP customers have achieved
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