Data Center Automation - methods through which hardware, software, and processes can work together to streamline IT operations - is challenged by increasing demand from limited resources business units to business processes and frameworks of IT departments.

This guide focuses on:

• Business processes and frameworks - learn best practices and real-world recommendations for ways to manage IT infrastructures
• IT as a service provider - learn how IT managers can better meet the needs of users and be viewed a service provider
• Agile management - the convergence of servers and networks brings new management challenges that require all areas of a technical environment to work in concert
• Network and server automation - read about excellent opportunities for labor-reducing automation