{"id":2158,"date":"2019-12-26T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T12:49:17","slug":"cloud-automation-a-better-and-faster-way-to-do-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/cloud-automation-a-better-and-faster-way-to-do-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Automation: A Better and Faster Way to Do Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe IT industry never ceases to evolve. From clouds to VMs, to containers\u2026 We never know what its next move will be like, but are instinctively ready to adapt to its beneficial transformations. Or not? In this article, we\u2019re talking about <\/i><\/b>cloud automation<\/i><\/b><\/a> to introduce the newbies to its perks and remind the old-schoolers of what they\u2019re losing by giving it a cold shoulder.<\/i><\/b>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nAccording to Hosting Tribunal<\/a>, in 2019 the global public cloud computing market is likely to reach $258 billion in value. The figures are quite promising, however, in reality, the IT community is growing unevenly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe IT world is still separated into two camps, which are the leaders and the followers. The leaders are pushing the statistics up and are responsible for the overall good reputation that the industry creates. On the other hand, the followers are pretty satisfied with legacy tools and methods, which, despite the fact that they\u2019re still quite widespread and adequate for a certain set of tasks, have a negative impact on the whole industry evolution. See the chart below for the contribution of the cloud leaders vs the followers\u2019 contribution to the cloud industry adoption.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn our article, we\u2019re going to discuss why it is urgent to ensure the consistent growth of the entire IT industry and how to achieve it through cloud automation tools and methods.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The shift from legacy to cloud-native applications<\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMany IT companies selling top-notch products are still using legacy on-prem systems and don\u2019t want to go cloud. Partly, their choice is justified due to numerous operational factors. First, the equipment cost \u2013 which can give a budget a hard blow \u2013 often takes more than 10+ years to write-off. Second, certain business processes may have been tailored to fit critical business objectives and are too risky and labor-intensive to retire. Migration<\/a> is all too often delayed due to the operational risk of some updates because during migration data may be lost or corrupted. Apart from the business-related issues, total on-prem facilities overturning often implies dealing with the human factors, as human beings tend to resist the new.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf the old solution works, why change it? After that, despite staying afloat quite for some time, eventually, the followers face compatibility failures, security breaches as ultimate security solutions are unavailable to them. Surely, performance suffers most, as in time, legacy solutions require more resources to run and are way slower than their up-to-date substitutes. This, in the end, slows down the overall growth of the industry, as the followers are innovation blockers. They stick to the old-school tools and methods of work even when it\u2019s economically unfeasible.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust like in the case with legacy systems, conventional methods like manual application testing, manual configuration, and release management are not intrinsically bad. They\u2019re just not as efficient as they might be. Together, cloud initiatives<\/em> (as an alternative to legacy on-prem applications) and automation<\/em> (which facilitates app development, testing, and release) form a new-age attitude towards efficient app development.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What is cloud automation and why is it so important?<\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCloud automation<\/a> mainly implies activities to ensure automated infrastructure provisioning and application management in the cloud.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEnsuring automatic <\/strong>infrastructure provisioning<\/strong><\/a> in the DevOps era is crucial, as to efficiently test and release new applications the organization needs adequate environments for this. Environment provisioning is not a one-time process, as it is done before the project team kicks off, during actual application development<\/a> or testing and after the application release. Thus, provisioning automation hits a set of objectives that make the life of the entire project team easier.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst, the automated provisioning for physical and virtual machines, processing power, storage, databases, middleware, communication, and networking infrastructure is done faster, which reduces the average time to provision. Second, adequate centralized automated provisioning facilitates decision-making processes in case new\/urgent business issues arise. Scalability, impact analysis, and changes management are no longer pain points and the company is 100% ready to face new challenges. Along with that, provisioning automation provides useful insights on service allocation and helps reduce operational waste and complexity by following well-run operational patterns and templates.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll in all, provisioning automation facilitates onboarding<\/em> for new application teams, coordination<\/em> of code releases and infrastructure management, procuring and environment generation<\/em> for Devs and QA and self-service provisioning<\/em>, offering a set of services that can be automatically launched and managed.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nAs for the application management<\/strong> in the cloud, application management tools ensure traceability and transparency of the cloud resources. Top-notch metrics and visualization tools allow businesses to effectively monitor cloud infrastructure and receive reliable updates on tier availability, performance, and throughput. Organizations visualize their application dependencies to monitor communication and architecture issues, see what\u2019s located and where. Cloud management tools also facilitate migrating on-prem resources into the cloud and ensure their better allocation. Businesses can see clearly their capacities consumption to use only what they need and scale up on the go.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee IBM Cloud App Management<\/a> as an example. It offers its clients application management features which greatly exceed even those mentioned above. With IBM\u2019s continuous delivery support, businesses can provide their dev teams and SREs with high-end analytics to fight the errors and bugs. The insights that the IBM cloud app management providers will help companies communicate with IT Ops and DevOps teams to identify operational bottlenecks. The cloud giant also facilitates workload provisioning, configuration, and deployment on VMs\/containers for its clients. Monitoring resources across cloud and on-prem facilities are now available from a single control point. For those keen on Cloud-native infrastructure, IBM avails the support of dynamic workloads, Kubernetes environments management along with application performance management in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Open-source data collectors allow automating microservice-based application management. Get valuable insights on the system\u2019s health through central monitoring and cognitive analytics and much more.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How to ensure cloud automation?<\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhich tools will help in achieving an ambitious cloud automation objective?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe recommend using the following tools and platforms to automate application release, infrastructure provisioning and ensure first-class orchestration for your cloud computing projects.\n