A recent analyst review by Ovum of the CA Automation Suite for Datacenters talks about the role of automation in virtualized, cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. The review is available here:
CA Automation Suite for Data Centers is designed to help you transform your IT infrastructure to dynamically deploy and elastically scale IT services. Automate at your own pace while minimizing risk and making the best possible use of your existing investments. CA Automation Suite for Data Centers offers a modular approach to automation that integrates CA Server Automation, CA Process Automation and CA Configuration Automation.
By monitoring and analyzing critical application and infrastructure data, the suite dynamically responds to configuration errors, application performance metrics, and system utilization changes with coordinated, policy-based action. The result is a dynamic data center that elastically scales IT services to improve business service quality and availability.
- Deploy and scale IT services at your own pace
- Make the best use of your existing resources
- Orchestrate and automate IT processes
- Leverage current IT infrastructure to deliver cloud services
This solution architecture diagram shows the scope and the components of the automation suite:
As Ovum puts it:
“Automation is becoming an essential approach to infrastructure management, to allow organizations to deal with the many demands that converge in this area. Lack of automation is already preventing organizations from benefiting from newer technologies. For example, lack of dynamic management to enforce business needs in a virtualized environment results in greater labor costs, which can obliterate the hardware cost savings that the technology makes possible.
Increasingly, organizations looking at adoption of a cloud approach recognize that adding cloud based resources to the management of their existing environment would fail to yield benefits if managing manually, and reactively, were the only option. Indeed, costs may well increase. Across all types of technology usage, the enforcement of business control and compliance is essential in today’s corporate environment, whether to ensure the right security protection is in place or to keep the asset inventory under control. Underlying this growing list of requirements is the need for efficiency, and cost reduction continues to be a focus as enterprises try to cope with all of these needs and the greater demands on the IT function generally.”
With kind regards!
Ralf Schnell
How much does this CA solution cost for Managing eg: 1000 Blades and the VM’s (Windows and Linux) built on top of this? We are in search of a good Build Automation tool in our project. We need this completed before May 31st 2013.
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