The IT Automation Challenge

As functionality in client and server systems has increased, so too has complexity. Both desktop and server deployment can be time-consuming when performed manually. With the number and variety of security threats increasing every year, timely application of security updates is of paramount importance. Regulatory compliance issues add a new burden, requiring IT to demonstrate that system configurations meet regulatory requirements.

These problems have a common element—all beg for some measure of automation to ensure IT can meet expectations in these areas at the expected level of accuracy and efficiency. To get IT operational requirements in hand, organizations must implement tools and processes that make OS and software ...

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