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Workload Automation for Hybrid Cloud Management

IT Ops professionals have long used WLA solutions to automate tasks in on-prem environments. Hybrid IT strategies are now increasingly common...

However, for organizations prioritizing digital transformation, hybrid IT strategies have become far more popular in recent years. This transition creates a requirement to automate workloads across both on-prem and cloud environments to support hybrid cloud deployments. Fortunately, modern WLA solutions support this need. As they begin to utilize the new generation of WLA software, leading enterprises have learned that WLA can be used to accomplish much more than traditional task automation.

IT Automation History Repeats Itself

Automated tasks were initially managed by job scheduling solutions supporting individual platforms...

Workload automation solutions entered the market to manage jobs across multiple on-prem and distributed platforms and applications. Cloud vendors like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have native schedulers, but they only work on their own platform. This creates challenges in multi-cloud environments where enterprises need holistic automation.

The Glue Holding Your Hybrid IT Strategy in Place

Disparate scheduling tools create challenges for sustainable IT automation...

The proper WLA solution runs workflows across environments, platforms, and applications. Businesses can centralize automation management across their hybrid IT environment, allowing workloads to support an enterprise-wide hybrid IT strategy instead of working against it.

Supporting the Actual Cloud Migrations

Cloud migration is ongoing and often multi-year, making manual recalibration of workloads time-consuming...

Dynamic WLA solutions allocate resources at runtime. Automation is event-triggered, meaning the right resource is used only when needed. As applications migrate, resources register their ability to accept workloads and are automatically selected without changes to workload definitions.

Hybrid Cloud File Transfers

One major challenge is moving data between on-prem and cloud environments...

WLA solutions with built-in managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities allow enterprises to use automation triggered by events for real-time data transfers. IT Ops can monitor and manage the entire data supply chain centrally. Stonebranch clients have benefited greatly from this approach.

Infrastructure Management Automation

Need a new virtual machine in the cloud? WLA automates this in real-time...

DevOps can trigger IT tickets in ServiceNow to automatically spin up cloud containers and virtual machines based on cost-effective providers. Instances erase themselves when done, reducing sprawl, all without IT Ops intervention. Monitoring is available from a single control point.

Final Thoughts on Workload Automation for Hybrid Cloud

WLA reduces manual work and increases IT Ops capabilities...

Using WLA for hybrid IT strategies is one of the few ways to manage the increased complexity that comes with continuous evolution in IT operations.