BrandPost: Empower IT Innovation with Cross-Domain Automation

Digital transformation has ignited a new economy where organizations are increasingly expecting IT to embrace a bigger role, drive business innovation, and move with greater agility. This often means IT must take immediate action to help the organization compete, or risk becoming irrelevant as line-of-business leaders go around IT and outsource projects to the cloud.

Simply put, as your organization becomes increasingly digital, your ability to be agile is heavily dependent upon the agility of IT, which is why technology is at the heart of this new order.

Automation is one of the key technologies organizations are embracing to achieve IT agility at the pace of today’s business. Unfortunately, while automation has been implemented in many domains within the data center, network automation has lagged behind. Additionally, automation tends to be implemented in silos within the data center, creating islands of automation that lead to disparate tools and highly disjointed operations. This siloed approach ultimately hinders the pace of service delivery and increases operational costs.

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