Daily Archives: April 21, 2014
Don’t Automate What You Don’t Understand
“Automation is a noble goal, but in order to automate anything you have to have visibility and understand what you have. A common misconception for enterprises commencing their automation journey is that the key preparation work is choosing a tool and training their staff up. The real work is actually gathering requirements. With legacy and hybrid infrastructure in play what matters most is getting visibility of current state to
take control of the chaos.”
“The relationship between central IT and developers is being re-defined as the world adopts cloud technologies. The ultimate challenge is making central it feel secure while simultaneously giving developers freedom. IT wants to be able to control the deployment of applications so that there is consistency and adherence to policy. The policy could be related to PII or even the size of the VM that will host the application. There could also be cost considerations as well as monitoring and performance. Developers want to focus on their applications, their code. Developers don’t want to worry about public versus private cloud or with finding exactly their app should be installed.”