top 10 business benefits of it automation
DESCRIPTION
Sysadmins spend as much as 50% of their time on routine, repetitive tasks. Of course, IT automation reduces the time spent on these kinds of tasks, but automation can do much more than that. This presentation talks about how IT automation benefits businesses of all sizes and verticals. With the right automation in place, operations teams can manage IT infrastructure for: * high availability & reliability * faster recovery from outages * better scalability & auditability * more frequent delivery of better-quality code * more business intelligence to inform business strategy, and much more.TRANSCRIPT
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Top 10 Business
Benefits of IT
Automation
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
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Over 2,700 community-contributed
modules
Founded in 2005
Over 10 million nodes managed
Deep partnerships with datacenter titans
800+ enterprise customers
EXPERIENCE
SCALE
ECOSYSTEM
CUSTOMERS
COMMUNITY
BACKING
THE IT AUTOMATION LEADER
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MORE COMPUTING POWER
MORE COMPLEXITY
GREATER EXPECTATIONS
GREATER OPPORTUNITIES
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DON’T WORK
Manual configurations
Custom scripts
Golden images
Legacy tools
*It costs reliability, speed, productivity & insight.
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AUTOMATE IT.Make rapid, repeatable changes and enforce the
consistency of systems and devices.
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Operating Systems
Virtual & Cloud
Applications
Network & Storage
Users · Groups · Firewall
Packages · Services
DNS · NTP · SSH
Kernel Settings · Files
Repositories · Mounts
Jobs · Scheduling
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SO WHAT?
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Mistake-Made-Legend Example: Knight
Capital Group, which in 2012 famously lost
$460 million in 45 minutes of trading due to
a failed update that had been manually
made to 8-year-old software.
Next Week & PuppetConf#1. Avoiding Downtime
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Next Week & PuppetConf#2. Easier Policy Enforcement
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Next Week & PuppetConf#3. Visibility, Auditability and
Accountability
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Next Week & PuppetConf#4. Consistency
Enforce changes
and remediate
configuration drift
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Next Week & PuppetConf#5. Better Code Quality
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High performing IT organizations have
double the change success rate &
restore service 12 times faster than their peers.
Fewer failures and faster recovery mean
less risk to the business when changes are
deployed.
Source: 2014 State of DevOps Report
Next Week & PuppetConf#6. Quicker Recovery
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Next Week & PuppetConf#7. Fast Response to Software
Vulnerability Announcements
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Next Week & PuppetConf#8. Scalability
DEFINE
ONCE
AUTOMATE
EVERYWHERE
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Next Week & PuppetConf#9. The Confidence to Level Up
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Next Week & PuppetConf#10. Self-Service for
Colleagues Outside IT
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Thank You!
Questions?