It Automation: The Quest for Lights Out - Couverture rigide

Lyke, Howie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0130137863 ISBN 13 : 9780130137869

Editeur : Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

Everyone wants a "lights out" data center, but in an era of distributed, Internet-centered computing, that's tougher to accomplish than ever. This book can get you close! It helps managers define realistic expectations and goals for automating IT, then presents a systematic, enterprise-level methodology that incorporates today's best approaches to achieving those goals. Analyze your own data center, identify gaps and requirements for automation; and review the steps, operations, and considerations of automation design, in depth. Review organizational and staffing challenges associated with data center automation; learn how to redefine your technical architecture and administrative processes; evaluate and justify the cost of new systems; communicate and present the plan; and much more. You'll find detailed coverage of the actual deployment, as well as post-implementation continuous improvement techniques for making your "lights out" data center even more effective. The book contains sample project plans, process flows, IT organization charts, and other valuable resources for getting from where you are to where you want to be.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Howie L. Lyke is CEO and Acting VP of IT Architecture for Bluewater Technology, Inc., which provides leading edge services for companies such as GE Capital, US Satellite Broadcasting, the Weather Channel, and 3M. He is co-author of Networking the New Enterprise (Prentice Hall PTR, 1997).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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• Maximize reliability, address downtime, and maintenance costs!
• Planning, analyzing, and implementing your appropriate level of automated data centers and infrastructure operations
• Real-world guidelines, methodology, and best practices
• Organization, staffing, technology, deployment, and management tips from the experts!

Data center automation in distributed environments: practical advice and proven tools!

Everyone wants a "lights out" data center and infrastructure operation-but in an era of distributed, Internet-centered computing, that's tougher to accomplish than ever. IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out can get you remarkably close to the level that's right for you. In this book, a leading IT consultant, with the help of his number-one supporting cast, helps you define realistic goals for automating your IT data center and infrastructure, and then delivers a systematic, enterprise-level methodology that encompasses today's best approaches to achieving those goals, from planning through deployment and management. Coverage includes:

• Analyzing your own operation to identify gaps and requirements for automation
• Designing IT automation: steps, operations, and key considerations
• Addressing the organizational and staffing challenges associated with data center and infrastructure automation
• Redefining your technical architecture and administrative processes for maximum efficiency
• Selling your IT automation plan throughout the organization
• Post-deployment continuous improvement techniques for enhancing your "lights out" operation

IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out contains all the hands-on resources you need to get results: sample project plans, process flows, IT org charts, and more. If you're an IT executive, operations manager, consultant, or vendor seeking to enhance the value of enterprise data centers, or even an IT Management graduate student, this is the one book that will get you there.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130137863
• ISBN 13: 9780130137869
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible