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On the Importance of Workload Automation in the Age of Cloud and Big Data

posted by Torsten Volk | March 27, 2013 | 0 Comments

HP Mainframe

With its roots in mainframe job scheduling, workload automation is often seen as a relic in today’s age of cloud, Big Data, mobile management and DevOps. Do we even still need workload automation as a separate discipline or should we simply roll the management of batch jobs into other automation disciplines, such as IT process...

Posted in Cloud Administration, Systems Management, Workload Automation Tags: automation, Batch processing, Big Data, Business, Business process automation, DevOps, Job scheduler, Workload automation

Physical, Virtual … Cloud – Upcoming EMA Research

posted by Torsten Volk | July 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

laboratory

Cloud is still a rapidly evolving discipline, with currently many organizations thinking about how to get started or how to take their limited cloud environment to the next level. These organizations are faced with two general challenges. They have to a) get their own house – data center – in order and b) identify a...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Application programming interface, Application Service Providers, Business, Business-to-Business, Cloud Computing, Data center, E-Commerce

EMA Radar for Workload Automation 2012 – Key Findings

posted by Torsten Volk | June 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

Mainframe Computer

During this year’s research for the 2012 EMA Workload Automation (WLA) Radar Report, we encountered a number of very interesting core findings. These research results mostly originated from dozens of conversations with end customers, who have been using WLA software for many years and sometimes even for decades. WLA, by definition, is a mature discipline,...

Posted in Business Service Management, IT Service Management, Systems Management, Workload Automation Tags: Amazon Web Services, Application programming interface, Business, Cloud Computing, Service-level agreement, WLA, Workload automation