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Server Automation System

No one needs to tell you that application management is getting harder. Your IT team manages the applications distributed across hundreds, if not thousands, of servers located in multiple data centers around the world. The Opsware Server Automation System automates server and application management so you can stop firefighting and focus on strategic IT initiatives that further your goals.

Businesses have come to rely on IT tremendously over the past few years. With all the new services required IT has a tougher job than ever. To develop, update, and maintain these applications,alongside maintaining and adding server capacity at the highest service levels, proactive organizations are turning to IT automation.

Automate to Thrive, Not Just Survive.
Opsware Server Automation System 6, part of Opsware System 6, enables your IT organization to work far more efficiently. With Opsware Server Automation System, you can automate specific actions to ensure work is done quickly and correctly-giving you more time to develop the new applications required by your business. By using Opsware Server Automation System to automate day-to-day operational activities, such as server provisioning, patching, and application configuration management, your IT team will have more time to develop, deploy, and manage new services.

Reduce Operating Costs and Increase Productivity.
Put an end to doing repetitive tasks by automating common operational jobs. With these tasks automated in a consistent, compliant manner, Opsware delivers significant, measurable savings in time and resources. Tasks that used to take several administrators days to accomplish can be reduced to a single administrator, completing the task in hours.

Respond to Business Requirements with Speed and Agility.
If you are always fighting fires, you can't focus on the strategic IT initiatives that further the business. By automating the server management lifecycle, routine tasks such as patching servers consistently take a few hours instead of days. Plus, delivering new services is easier, faster and less error prone with standardized server and application automation.

Proactively Manage Regulatory Compliance.
At the core of today's IT compliance initiatives, such as ITIL adoption, tightened security controls and proactive compliance enforcement, is IT automation. Without automation, compliance enforcement is, at best, labor-intensive, but often, nearly impossible. Opsware Server Automation System completely automates the task of setting and enforcing regulatory and best practice standards. Opsware delivers executive-level, at-a-glance visibility into server, software, and application configuration for regulatory compliance.

Breakdown Operational Silos to Work Smarter.
Today's applications are distributed, drastically increasing management complexity for systems administrators. Opsware delivers a holistic solution with a single view of application dependencies and network details along with server hardware and configuration information. This provides unprecedented visibility along with an integration to change and configuration management into the application stack to speed troubleshooting and allow operators to perform 'what-if' impact analysis.