Making the Most Out of IT Automation

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IT automation up until now has been an oxymoron. IT has been employed to automate business functions, but IT itself has become labor-intensive and lacking in automation. The reality is that IT has underinvested in automation, says Michel Feaster, senior director of products for Hewlett-Packard's Business Services Automation Unit, in this IT Link podcast. IT has spent money in digitizing manual processes and has turned paper processes into software processes, and Feaster has some answers about why manual approaches no longer scale in the enterprise, and what to do about it in terms of consolidating data center functions through virtualization.

	Making the Most Out of IT Automation IT automation up until now has been an oxymoron. IT has been employed to automate business functions, but IT itself has become labor-intensive and lacking in automation. The reality is that IT has underinvested in automation, says Michel Feaster, senior director of products for Hewlett-Packard's Business Services Automation Unit, in this IT Link podcast. IT has spent money in digitizing manual processes and has turned paper processes into software processes, and Feaster has some answers about why manual approaches no longer scale in the enterprise, and what to do about it in terms of consolidating data center functions through virtualization. Host: Mike Vizard Length: 00:24:23 Subscribe to this podcast		Job Scheduling in 24-Hour WorldNext Generation Mobile ComputingGetting Control of Virtual InfrastructureNew Challenges for Content Delivery Networks

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