A 9-Point Checklist for IT Automation Adoption

In the age of cloud, cloud-native, and continuous delivery, IT automation is an approach to managing infrastructure to the benefit of developers, allowing them to continue enhancing the customer experience. Recently, as a marketer in the HPE Pointnext Services team, I was asked to work with HPE's Global Sales Engineering team to bring the HPE Pointnext Services point of view on IT automation adoption. You can imagine the technicality around automation adoption, so simplifying it for those who are interested in the topic but are not technicians was an enjoyable task. The start-point, though, must be: What is automation, and what does it do for you? Ultimately automation adoption benefits from a check-list of things taken into account.