Cloud Computing: The Future of Data Centers Lies on Automation
June 17, 2013
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
Cloud computing is the evolution and divergence of many seemingly sovereign computing trends including SaaS, PaaS, XaaS, IaaS, virtualization, distributed computing, Web 2.0, storage, grid computing and more importantly Data Center automation.
IT organizations can no longer afford to use manual or practices of a disparate set of tools to manage physical and virtual resources infrastructure. These approaches are costly, error-prone, leaving few free resources to focus on innovation. The revolution of cloud computing means going to think about keeping the business on the basis of services that provide necessary functionality and automation is one of the criteria among them…
The automation of the data center is of particular importance, not only because it leads to higher productivity and efficiency, but also because the transition to cloud computing will be easier to make. Data Center automation is concerned with the processes and technologies for automated deployment and management of IT services…
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