Over the past decade, the data centre has been steadily evolving. 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. Learn more here: http://www.dimensiondata.com/Global/Latest-Thinking/Diving-into-data-centre-automation

1. accelerate your ambition
Diving into
data centre automation

2. The software-defined data centre: making the
inevitable achievable
Six steps to accelerating
automation in the data centre
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.
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3. 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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4. Define policy: what, when, and where
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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6. 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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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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Add in analytics
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9. For more about our views on data centre
automation, please go to
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