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What is IT Automation?

What is IT Automation

What is IT Automation?

IT automation is the process of creating software and systems to replace repeatable processes and reduce manual intervention. It accelerates the delivery of IT infrastructure and application by automating a manual process is that previously required a human touch. With IT automation software is used to set up and repeat instructions, processes, or policies that save time and free up IT staff for more strategic work with the rise of virtualized networks and cloud services. IT automation is a powerful tool that can scale a business, Provide significant cost saving, allow IT staff to focus on strategic rather than administrative work.

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How IT automation does works?

IT automation software can perform a range of IT tasks and processes from simple to complex. For example, automation can be used to create networking or security templates, blueprints, to configure applications and provision production-ready infrastructure. Recent IT automation trends include the use of Artificial intelligence and Machine learning to create smarter processes that deal with more unpredictable situations. These technologies are still in their early stages but they could allow animated processes to learn and improve as they go automation tools themselves are also becoming more powerful. Allowing IT staff to build workflows more quickly.

 Advantages of IT automation

Increasingly IT automation is becoming a necessity for enterprises to navigate and manage the complex modern technological landscape. It also has several concrete benefits –

  • Time saving

Time savings by automating the most repetitive and time-consuming task. IT staff to free up their time to spend on higher-level tasks.

  • Faster operation

IT automation can speed up data center and cloud operation considerably reducing service and resource delivery time from week to hours.

  • Reduced errors

IT automation ensures consistency on a large scale. Something that’s impossible to do with individuals completing task annually.

  • Better security

Automated processes require a fewer humans to view and safeguard sensitive information. Which reduces the possibility of breaches.

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Disadvantages of IT automation

  • Inflexibility

The automation process by itself doesn’t handle change well and many automation tools are built for a specific purpose. Limiting them to function.

  • Investment cost

IT automation saves money. It can also involve a substantial upfront investment to purchase software and set up the automation. Businesses must carefully consider their IT automation strategy to make sure that the processes. It wants to automate will provide a significant ROI (Return On Invest) routine task that eats up a significant amount of IT staff time is a worth process that runs once a month are probably not.

  • Increased consequences for error

Automation has greatly reduced the chance of human error. But automation is so fast and powerful so any automated error that occurs can cause much more damage than manual ones. This means that is important to set up an automation tool correctly. Test them before deployment.

Does IT automation save money?

IT automation can result in significant cost saving in both straightforward and less obvious ways enterprise. IT automation reduces the number of labor hours required to complete a task and it can increase IT staff productivity which is what most people are thinking of when they talk about automation cost savings but beyond that, it also ensures consistency reduces errors.

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