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The traditional IT department model of the past 30-odd years has been silos. Systems manage the server infrastructure and try their level best not to talk to storage. Storage manage everything storage and often try to classify anything with more than 1GB of internal storage as part of their domain. Networking administrators are seen as little more than semi-intelligent cable monkeys. More often than not the job is done these days by a pimply-faced youth who has yet to realise that systems is a better place to be. Whole data centre orchestration is about maximising operational predictability, security and maintainability through inter-team communication and IT process automation. To put it simply, it is about automating every process involved in the day-to-day running of your data centre so teams can shift their focus from a reactive maintenance cycle to working on the projects that deliver greater business value. If you are liking the sound of automation so far, then it is time to take a look at the tools available on the market to help us achieve these goals. Knowing where to start when picking an automation solution (or combination of solutions) can be difficult. As the examples above show, whole data centre and hybrid cloud automation comes in a number of flavours and there are an entire ocean’s worth of resources available online that can further assist in deciding which tools are right for you. Those tools are great, but what if you are not running a data centre or web-scale infrastructure? Can you still implement an automation and orchestration solution? Are there some easy things you can do right now to show management that data automation is not just for enterprises?
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