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Automation

Businesses today need to be able to scale and pivot faster than ever — and IT automation is vital to achieving these capabilities. Our team can support you from strategy through execution of automation that delivers on key business priorities.

Connecting the dots

From the supply chain to security patching, automation can deliver value across a wide variety of business areas and functions.
 
  • IT processes can be automated and orchestrated for labor efficiencies and cost savings. 
  • Security alerts and threat responses can be automated to extend the efforts of a Security Operations Center (SOC) and improve overall security posture.
  • Hybrid cloud deployment automation can eliminate technology silos and improve integration. 
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) paired with automation is one basic recipe for innovation.
  • Automated tasks may also be coordinated into a cohesive process or workflow for IT and the business using orchestration.

The key to successful automation initiatives is starting with a concrete strategy. What do you hope to achieve? By aligning automation efforts tightly with defined goals, you can better measure project outcomes and ensure resources are fully optimized.

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Automation across the IT environment

We work closely with organizations like yours to identify pain points, develop a strategy, find appropriate and cost-effective solutions, and implement them in your environment. 

Get support with automation and orchestration in key areas:

  • Hybrid cloud deployment, configuration, management, and brokering
  • DevOps model implementation or realignment, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Security deployments and SOC management
  • CICD approaches and application deployment
  • Configuration management implementation
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure deployment and integration
  • Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
  • IT process/runbook design and optimization
  • Network access control and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approaches
  • Multicloud and multiplatform resource management
  • Scalability and rapid IT changes in response to business demands 

CICD: What, why, how

It’s expected that businesses maintain a rigorous release cycle of new applications and application updates to support great customer experiences, enable employee productivity, keep corporate data secure, and many other objectives.

CICD is an approach to application development that automates various stages in the app lifecycle in order to streamline efforts, minimize bugs, improve communication, and accelerate delivery.

Our team can help you build a foundation for a strong CICD practice — from modernizing infrastructure, to enabling containerization of key workloads, to using IaC to reduce environment drift and deliver rapidly and at scale.

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Interested in expanding your use of automation to further your business strategy? Reach out to our experts.