IT Lifecycle Management in a Virtual World - Automation for Compliance, Command, and Control of the Virtualised Data Centre

FinTech-Infrastructure.com - A four-part weekly series explores how virtualisation is shaking up the data centre by challenging traditional approaches to IT management, and how you can meet the growing demand for virtual services – and still maintain control and compliance - with policy-based IT process automation.

Part 1: Review of the pressures on the data centre and the industry initiatives emerging to help meet them.

Part 2: How virtualisation affects the entire IT lifecycle, from request through provisioning, change management, and retirement.

Part 3: Policy-based automation and its benefits for managing virtual resources.

Part 4: Combining virtualisation with automation for the delivery of mission-critical financial services applications.