Nolio Application Service Automation: An Application-Centric Approach to Datacenter Automation

Driven by increased adoption of services-based computing, virtualization technologies, and mixed private and public cloud computing, enterprise datacenter ww.idc.com applications are evolving from static and monolithic to dynamic, distributed, and multi-tiered. With this new application model come new operating challenges. As organizations become increasingly reliant on integrated datacenter applications, deploying these applications is becoming a key business priority and a formidable operational challenge for IT teams. Responsibility for these applications - from managing release cycles to servicing lifecycles - is shifting to datacenter operations. This white paper discusses the challenge of managing dynamic, multi-tier applications across distributed, heterogeneous datacenter environments. It discusses the shortcomings of traditional, manual approaches for managing service tasks across the application lifecycle, and how automation can address these challenges.