IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out

Chapter 6. Communicating and Presenting The Plan

You have completed all the steps required to define and determine the cost-benefit of your automation initiatives. The work product from previous chapters is the input you need to create the presentation of the proposed initiative for approval. This is the last step prior to procurement and deployment:

I took on a fairly lengthy engagement with a client whose needs for a production quality data center were increasing rapidly as the enterprise was in fast growth mode. The state I found it in was anything but "production." Subsequently, I found myself quickly pitching initiatives such as the ones ...