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.

A data orchestrator acts to integrate and fine tune its instruments. It is agile, scalable and evolutive to adapt quickly. Data orchestration delivers the core from which people, processes and systems and data unite to provide one source of the truth. It is not a matter of if and when – but how – to regain valuable time while increasing profit. Up until now, the visionary leaders who have understood the importance of integrating reliable data to validate decisions have incrementally introduced various tools from vendors offering singular solutions for individual functions of the business. It is through the narrowed focus of these early disruptors we now know that addressing bit parts of an organization, as unique products come to market, is not delivering the gains they expected and often becomes a binding decision to commit to one provider.

Game of Drones, Stranger (Internet of) Things, or a more evolved Mr. Robot? What's headlining the tech hit list for 2018? Here are the 8 key technological trends – some of which are mature or hybrid versions of older technologies, while one is new - that will significantly impact businesses, people and processes and usher in a new normal. Machine Intelligence is set to receive a booster dose of intelligence apart from becoming more ubiquitous as a technology since stiff market competition is making increasingly superior hardware available at further reduced costs. Expect an increase in ML-based drones, a revival of smart dust, as well as significant advancements in self-reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks.

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Your message has been sent. There was an error emailing this page. IT operations has become the lifeblood of all businesses today. A healthy IT organization can provide key competitive advantages for businesses in a fast-paced market. Many companies struggle to meet the high demand due to increased cloud system complexity.