What is coming is a new way of running IT made possible by two forms of data center automation: scripts and model-driven configuration.
Andy Park, Vijay Manwani, and Ravi Reddy previously founded data center software and cloud automation company BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC Software in 2008.
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The survey on business growth strategies found mid-size companies continue to prioritize automation of business processes, data analytics, and business intelligence as triggers to increase productivity and areas where they are most likely to make investments in 2012.
Here's a simple scenario: If a company uses JigSaw, a crowd-sourced contact database, to get contact data about prospects, it then can transfer that data to Marketo, a B2B marketing automation vendor, which will send out offers to view content.
The explosion of data, even in mid-size firms requires automation, Collet added.
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Symantec is very strong in security, data protection, and a small bit of management and automation, but it lacks a significant number of capabilities Dell needs to enable truly converged infrastructure and cloud automation.
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Increasingly, I am finding that if CITOs spend just a bit of time thinking like marketers, taking time to understand the process of marketing, delving into marketing automation technology, and attempting to find sources of data that can be of assistance to marketers, the impact can be tremendous.
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When asked what type of investments companies were likely to make in technology, cloud computing, at 40%, had emerged close to automation of business processes (46%), and data analytics (41%), as an investment priority.
That team will approach problems in device and task specialization, automation for agility and scalability, analysis of large bodies of data, and interaction between intelligence at the edge and in the datacenter.
Jones uses eight years of data from ITG to show how this dropped significantly with the introduction of automation, spiked during the crisis of 2008, and either because of, or in spite of, the rise of HFT, has dropped by 2011 to near the pre-crisis lows.
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The scope of automation is circumscribed by the management systems that control equipment in the data center.
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Predictive tagging is particularly indicative of how automation and human comprehension must collaborate to efficiently complete the task of reviewing data.
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Second, hospitals will invest in automation and natural language understanding (NLU) to make sense of large data sets so they can get insight it into the hands of decision-makers in a timely fashion.
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They did so while also enabling faster onboarding for newly acquired companies and making the most of their data center consolidation efforts, application portfolio analysis, service desk convergence, and heavy automation at all levels.
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen started a data-center management firm called Loudcloud in 1999, later selling the service business to concentrate on automation software.
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