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Companies rely on IT operations to run the background processing needed for departmental output and maintenance. Workload automation tools excel at automating these routine job...
Companies run many of their mission-critical processes on a growing array of Windows servers, virtual machines (VM), and server clusters these days. Inst...
Written by Charlie Betz, Enterprise Management Associates
Workload Automation (WLA), or enterprise scheduling, is an essential capability f...
Looking at the big picture, your enterprise job scheduler should be able to do what you are doing now—watch the job stream, make sure everything runs in the right order, a...
When I started in the IT business as an Operations Manager at a hospital 25 years ago, I was positive that the interfaces between ancillary systems such as lab, pha...
Many organizations are disappointed with the results of their complex IT projects that produce only a partial solution because the promised benefits were late or never fully ach...
Visions of a mechanized world flourished long before the term “automation” was coined. The star of Westinghouse’s exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair was El...
Have you noticed the recent commercials about going to the “cloud?” They make it sound so simple, but I often wonder if people understand what these commercials are...
Windows, UNIX, Linux—all enterprise environments have manual tasks that could and should be automated. To find examples, just look in your run book, operator documentation...
If you currently use cron to schedule jobs on your UNIX servers, you may have encountered the following situations: Your job schedule requires a higher degree of flexibilit...
In the past, most enterprise scheduling or workload automation products were created using a client-server strategy. This “older” technology consisted of software on...
