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What is a DataOps Orchestration Solution?

Learn how DataOps orchestration empowers data teams to manage complex data pipelines.

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Infrastructure Orchestration Across a Hybrid Environment

Learn how to dominate the management of your hybrid infrastructure to orchestrate everything between multi-cloud and legacy on-premises environments.

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5 Stages of the DevOps Journey: A Roadmap for Advancing to the Next Level

DevOps has gone through a significant transformation in the last ten years. At the organizational level, there’s a new urgency around elevating DevOps maturity. Find out where your company stands and how to get to the next stage with this visual guide.

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Beautiful Automation Workflows To Inspire Your Next UAC Project

Explore the art of the possible with these automation workflows built within the Universal Automation Center's drag-and-drop workflow engine. See real workflows designed to solve some of our customer's biggest automation challenges.

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Breaking Down the New Workload Automation Research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Learn about the key facts of the latest report from EMA - Democratizing IT Automation in a Multi-Cloud World - Tools, Teams, Culture, and Best Practices for Automation Success - Get insights on the latest trends in the WLA and digitalization space.

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7 Top Trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) in 2021

Learn about 2021's top trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) - including trends related to IT automation, orchestration of cloud services and empowering business users with self-service processes.

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A Customer Point of View: Workload Automation and the Cloud

Learn what Stonebranch customers are saying about workload automation and the move to the cloud. Discover how SaaS-based WLA supports the orchestration across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments.

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Workload Automation is Dead, Long Live Workload Automation!

As organizations began moving to hybrid IT environments, workload automation's future was uncertain. But WLA adapted and is now more important than ever. Learn how workload automation is different from, but still central to, service orchestration and automation.

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How IT Automation’s Next Generation of Platforms Meet Five Important New Demands

IT Automation’s evolution supports five important new end-user demands. Learn what they are and how enterprises are adapting.

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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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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.

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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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How To Install External Python Modules in Universal Agent

A technical how-to written by Colin Cocksedge, Director Product Management at Stonebranch, on how to install external python modules on Universal Agent (UA).

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.