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Solutions include Workload / Jobs, Cloud, DevOps, Big Data and Hybrid File Transfer

Five Key Solutions within the Universal Automation Center Platform

What does the Universal Automation Center platform really do? Hint, way more than job scheduling. This primer is for anybody interested in taking full advantage of the platform’s powerful real-time hybrid IT orchestration and automation capabilities.

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The Road to DevOps: How IT Automation Unites IT Ops and Developers

DevOps brings together the previously siloed IT Operations and Developer teams, combining them into one IT project taskforce focused on the highest quality output and IT environment management for their organization. In this infographic, discover how IT automation helps IT operations and developers work together to transform IT with the DevOps methodology.

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Create Citizen Automators with Self-Service

Workload automation solutions have successfully expanded their capabilities by harnessing the power of integrations. As organizations look to increase productivity and efficiency, enabling business users with self-service IT automation via upstream integrations is becoming central to their IT strategy.

Stonebranch Online Mid-Point Highlights

The Stonebranch Online Educational Forum has reached the halfway mark. Here, we take a look back at some of the highlights of the series so far.

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Key Features of Job Scheduling Software and What’s New

Job scheduling may not be a new technology. However, scheduling software has dramatically changed along with the evolution of IT. Modern updates include supporting organizations by proactively reducing errors, offering a single point of visibility and control, improving ease-of-use for all kinds of end users, and expanding into the cloud.

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Introducing Stonebranch Online – Overview of this Must-See Virtual Event Series

Registration is now open for Stonebranch Online, a virtual education series featuring presentations from prominent customers and Stonebranch executives. Read on to learn about sessions that cover several exciting new Stonebranch features including infrastructure-as-code, jobs-as-code, and how to manage automation across your hybrid IT environment.

Explore the benefits of deploying a workload automation solution via a cloud-based SaaS model.

SaaS Workload Automation – Benefits and Advantages

Explore the benefits of deploying a workload automation solution via a cloud-based SaaS model. Top reasons include the elimination of infrastructure requirements and the ability to easily upgrade to the latest version.

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Workload Automation Integrations and What To Look For

Being able to centrally manage automation via integrations is an important way for enterprises to manage disparate and often siloed IT systems. This article defines workload automation integrations, and gives tips around how to future proof your next investment.

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11 Ways to Prepare for A Workload Automation Migration

Learn how to ensure a successful workload automation migration project with a process-driven approach to converting from one solution to another.

What is DevOps, Why Does it Exist, and How Does it Help?

Organizations following the curve of modernization require the adoption of DevOps automation in order to remain competitive and offer the kind of seamless digital business landscape expected. In this blog article, learn how organizations leverage a DevOps model, and how modern workload automation solutions can support a Jobs-as-Code model.

Workload Automation for Hybrid Cloud Management

Learn how IT operations professionals are leveraging workload automation solutions to support their hybrid IT strategies and hybrid cloud management.

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Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud vs Hybrid IT Strategies

In this article, we define hybrid cloud, multi cloud and hybrid IT and explain what challenges these strategies mean for IT operations.

Orchestrating the Data Supply Chain with OpenShift

This blog post explains how to securely transfer business data located on the cloud, on mainframe, or in a hybrid environment to (or from) an application running on OpenShift.

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Making the Most of the Data Economy

Data management is the lifeblood of any enterprise. Discover why organizations today must be able to ensure that the right data from the value chain is available in the right place and at the right time utilizing the right data engine for moving data across platforms

Dynamic IT Automation for Telcos, Part 2

Billing processes are part of the core operations of a Telco. Automating billing processes offer significant efficiencies and improvements in lead time, quality and cost.

Running Universal Agents in Docker Containers

In this blog post we examine a sample dockerfile, entrypoint script, and the docker build and run commands needed to implement and run Universal Agent in a Docker container.

It's Time to Replace Your CA Automic Workload Automation

Read this blog post and discover why it's time to replace CA Automic Workload Automation (WLA) and put a cloud-native, vendor-agnostic, web-based automation solution in place.

Dynamic IT Automation for Telcos, Part 1 - Why & What to Automate?

IT automation offers many benefits for telecommunications when it comes to enabling digital transformation. This article explores significant benefits and outlines several relevant use cases.