Data Center Automation Services

Many data center operations are still handled manually. Frequently, the various steps in resource provisioning and management are disconnected from one another. Even if the productivity of a company’s administrators has increased through the automation of certain tasks, the benefits often disappear as existing manual processes remain a major barrier to true operational agility—and increase the opportunity for human error.

Symantec’s experienced professionals can help improve operational efficiency, reduce latency and consistency and lower costs by automating routine systems operations and incident remediation.

Challenges

IT organizations have automated business tasks such as sales order processing, purchasing, manufacturing, and other corporate functions. Yet, despite the fact that operational labor costs are the single largest IT budget item, most companies have failed to fully automate their IT operations.

By relying on manual provisioning and maintenance activities, data centers experience configuration drift and errors. Agility is hampered by the performance of the weakest link in provisioning. A comprehensive management view of work-in-progress is often lacking. And, in-house automation systems that do exist today are frequently limited to one operating system and are not scalable. As a result, system administrators spend most of their time fixing problems and keeping the lights on—rather than delivering value through IT innovation.

Solutions

Symantec can help your enterprise improve operational efficiency and quality of service through integrated and automated workflows and technologies. Our consultants can help automate server and storage provisioning and maintenance operations, as well as automate responses to system events.

Symantec’s phased approach to automation includes the following elements:

• Create an automation framework for integrated resource deployment and maintenance

• Design and implement provisioning templates

• Develop an integration plan for existing reference builds

• Build a process plan for cross-discipline roles and responsibilities

• Design a management system for visibility to work in progress

Why Symantec?

Symantec solutions deliver both services and products to help automate your data center. Through automation, you can accelerate deployment and maintenance cycles, reduce complexity and improve consistency of infrastructure operations, increase responsiveness to business demands, and reduce operational costs.

As IT costs and complexity continue to increase at a dizzying rate, count on Symantec to help your data center increase its efficiency and effectiveness through automation.