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Top 10 Business
Benefits of IT
Automation
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Over 2,700 community-contributed
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Founded in 2005
Over 10 million nodes managed
Deep partnerships with datacenter titans
800+ enterprise customers
EXPERIENCE
SCALE
ECOSYSTEM
CUSTOMERS
COMMUNITY
BACKING
THE IT AUTOMATION LEADER
MORE COMPUTING POWER
MORE COMPLEXITY
GREATER EXPECTATIONS
GREATER OPPORTUNITIES
DON’T WORK
Manual configurations
Custom scripts
Golden images
Legacy tools
*It costs reliability, speed, productivity & insight.
AUTOMATE IT.Make rapid, repeatable changes and enforce the
consistency of systems and devices.
Operating Systems
Virtual & Cloud
Applications
Network & Storage
Users · Groups · Firewall
Packages · Services
DNS · NTP · SSH
Kernel Settings · Files
Repositories · Mounts
Jobs · Scheduling
SO WHAT?
Mistake-Made-Legend Example: Knight
Capital Group, which in 2012 famously lost
$460 million in 45 minutes of trading due to
a failed update that had been manually
made to 8-year-old software.
Next Week & PuppetConf#1. Avoiding Downtime
Next Week & PuppetConf#2. Easier Policy Enforcement
Next Week & PuppetConf#3. Visibility, Auditability and
Accountability
Next Week & PuppetConf#4. Consistency
Enforce changes
and remediate
configuration drift
Next Week & PuppetConf#5. Better Code Quality
High performing IT organizations have
double the change success rate &
restore service 12 times faster than their peers.
Fewer failures and faster recovery mean
less risk to the business when changes are
deployed.
Source: 2014 State of DevOps Report
Next Week & PuppetConf#6. Quicker Recovery
Next Week & PuppetConf#7. Fast Response to Software
Vulnerability Announcements
Next Week & PuppetConf#8. Scalability
DEFINE
ONCE
AUTOMATE
EVERYWHERE
Next Week & PuppetConf#9. The Confidence to Level Up
Next Week & PuppetConf#10. Self-Service for
Colleagues Outside IT
Thank You!
Questions?