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The Importance of Using Supported Integration Packs for Your Orchestrator Deployment

When looking at any automation task in System Center Orchestrator, it will inevitably need to connect to other enterprise management systems to automate the process. This means using an Integration Pack or writing your own piece of PowerShell script to build an integration yourself.

Automation + Orchestration = A Continuous Journey to Drive Bigger Business Value

The more people realize the many ways automation makes their jobs easier, the more they want to apply it – and not just in IT, but across business departments and for multiple processes. By 2025, Gartner predicts: IT individuals have been taking advantage of automation for at least 10 years, but as the stats show, organizations as a whole are gravitating toward the value automation can bring.

7 Ideas Frugal Entrepreneurs Should Consider Implementing

Frugal entrepreneurs have been maximizing their earnings for years by implementing smart and cost-effective strategies. In this post, we'll be revealing seven ideas that frugal entrepreneurs should consider using in order to maximize their financial potential while minimizing costs. These tips can help every entrepreneur make more money with fewer investments. So if you're ready to uplevel your bottom line while remaining financially responsible, keep on reading!

Agent vs. Agentless Security: How Do They Stack Up for Secure Infrastructure Automation?

In today’s multi-cloud reality, we at Puppet see that perspectives about agent vs. agentless have changed as security needs have grown in complexity and urgency. Given the changes fact that different architecture models and supporting infrastructure (private & public cloud), the same viewpoint about the best way to keep a business secure is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution. In this blog, we’ll weigh the pros and cons of agent vs.

AI and automation: Unlocking job opportunities for Australia's economy

As the Australian workforce braces for increased AI and automation, individuals must adapt by acquiring new skills. In doing so, Australians can expand the impact of their work, embark on more fulfilling career paths, and increase their income potential. Recent ServiceNow-commissioned research from Pearson points to major changes in the workforce—in Australia and around the world—due to the implementation of AI and other technologies.

The Resolve Automation Flywheel: A "Good to Great" Automation Journey

Organizations lean on IT as the foundational force for helping the business succeed, even more so when stakes are high, and the future is unpredictable. Considering the countless tasks and processes carried out in IT, automation is no longer a nice to have. It’s a requirement for starting, and maintaining, a system of consistency that supports the business through instability and uncertainty.

One Year of Automation, 100K Staff Hours Saved: A Telco Giant's Big Gain

A leading mobile communications company, based in South Africa, had big plans for its growth in the upcoming months. To ensure customer loyalty as they continued to grow their subscribers, they had to make sure their networks evolved while maintaining performance. That meant the organization’s IT and network teams needed a way to support business goals for growth with their existing capacity.

5 Steps to An Easy, Error-free Load Balancer Sanity Reboot

It’s one of the main use cases fit for network automation: the load balancer sanity reboot. Not to be left to manual executions, this long, tiresome task creates too much possibility for errors. Negative effects like unnecessary time and money spent are detriments that organizations can avoid, simply by automating the types of tasks—like load balancer sanity reboots—that include loads of repetitive steps.

Fixing Citrix Issues with eG Enterprise's Automation

Without any ability to self-heal, fixing Citrix usually requires manual intervention to remediate problems. This leads to time spent on mundane tasks managing the care and feeding of Citrix. Automation of these tasks for fixing Citrix provides: In our latest release, eG Enterprise v7.2, we have added new auto-correction and auto-remediation capabilities for Citrix administrators that remove the need for scripting. There are a few issues that can be a cause of constant frustration for admins.