Cloud Automation’s Top Five Returns on Investment

Network Automation, a premier provider of IT and business process automation software, has released its top five returns on investment companies can achieve by automating cloud-based platforms. The benefits address the growing global demand for automated cloud computing services across a multitude of business verticals. According to an Avanade survey entitled “Has Cloud Computing Matured?" 60 percent of companies worldwide flagged cloud computing as a top IT priority for 2012. The sentiment is even higher in the C-suite with 75 percent of C-level executives reporting cloud computing as top of mind. 

The benefits outlined are designed to ensure optimization of automation tasks executed in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, giving industry leading SMBs and Fortune 1,000 companies a comprehensive solution to automate their business and IT processes and maximize ROI.

Click through for the top five returns on investments that organizations can achieve with cloud automation, as identified by Network Automation.

Cloud processing is pay as you go, and automation ensures that only what is needed is actually used.

Cloud deployments are in conjunction with on-premise applications and IT resources. Automation helps integrate these hybrid environments.

Focusing IT staff time on value added efforts is paramount. Cloud platforms have console control platforms that require both IT administration and manual operation.  Automation can perform routine tasks on these consoles and send notifications when human intervention is required.

Mundane business process tasks require browser-based interaction with cloud facilities, suitable automation solutions can eliminate this interaction.

Automation can not only control cloud resources, but also execute in the cloud, thereby delivering cloud-based economics to the benefits of automation.