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What is Data Center Automation?

What is Data Center Automation?

Explore how to automate the data center, including its traditional four-wall setup and its evolved ecosystem of physical, virtualized, and public cloud-based systems. 

Modernize Mainframe Applications: 6 Strategies to Get it Done

Modernize Mainframe Applications: 6 Strategies to Get it Done

Take a look at the benefits of mainframe modernization and explore six strategies to consider when you modernize your existing legacy mainframe applications.

Self Service Automation: Best Practices for Organizational Efficiency

Self Service Automation: How to Empower Your Business

Self service automation can help break down organizational silos to boost employee efficiency. Check out these best practices to help your help desk reduce the burden of routine business requests.

Runbook Automation vs Workload Automation: Best Practices Header Image

Workload Automation vs Runbook Automation: Best Practices

Explore the differences between workload automation and runbook automation to help you decide which approach best fits your needs.

What’s New in UAC Version 7.4: workload simulations, jobs as code, outbound webhooks, and more

What’s New in UAC Version 7.4

Do more in 7.4! The latest release of Universal Automation Center (UAC) offers many new features and enhancements, including workload simulations, jobs-as-code, and outbound webhooks.

Enterprise Workload Automation That Transforms Your Business

Enterprise Workload Automation That Transforms Your Business

Achieving end-to-end visibility, accessibility, and manageability of diverse business processes requires integrating SAP with enterprise WLA solutions. Read this blog to learn how we allow customers to direct, define & integrate SAP processes with any other type of processing.

Cloud Orchestration and Automation: True Hybrid Infrastructure

Cloud Orchestration and Automation: True Hybrid Infrastructure

When combined with Workload Automation (WLA), Cloud Orchestration is a powerful approach to breaking down platform and application silos. Learn to create real-time data pipelines, run workloads across hybrid environments, and gain management and control of your entire IT operation.

Jobs-as-Code: Automating Job Configuration Updates with Version Control

Jobs-as-Code: Automating Job Configuration Updates with Version Control

Jobs-as-code simplifies job configuration management through version control. Automation rules can be managed like any other code, making it easier to share and collaborate on complex workflows.

Automation Trends 2023: Top 7 Takeaways from the Annual Global State of IT Automation Report

Discover the top 7 findings of the 2023 Global State of IT Automation Report and see how automation intersects with DataOps, DevOps, Cloud Ops, and IT Ops.

Workload Placement Strategies: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Hybrid IT Environment

Workload Placement Strategies: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Hybrid IT Environment

Achieve maximum business value by orchestrating workloads across on-premises, edge, colocation, and cloud infrastructure.

Airflow Event-Based Triggers with Stonebranch

Airflow Event-Based Triggers with Stonebranch

How to enable Apache Airflow to use event-based triggers for real-time data pipelines via the API.

Cloud Automation: Benefits and Tools in 2023

Cloud Automation: Benefits and Tools in 2023

Explore what cloud automation is and isn’t. Learn which tools exist to automate cloud service providers, SaaS applications, infrastructure, and security. And finally, learn the benefits of orchestration.

Gartner 2023 Market Guide to Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP)

Top 5 Updates to the Gartner 2023 SOAP Market Guide

Gartner recently released an update to the 2021 Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP) Market Guide that defined a new category in automation. Read on to learn just how much has changed.

IT Process Automation Made Simple

IT Process Automation Made Simple

Business today happens a lot faster than human beings can process it. Read this article to learn how we help businesses manage their workloads by automating background processes and combating the complexity of today’s heterogeneous IT environments.

Workflow vs workload

Workflow Automation vs Workload Automation: Differences, Overlap and Synergies

Explore the differences between Workload and Workflow Automation, where they overlap, and how they can support one another.

What is a DataOps Tool: Five Core Capabilities

What is a DataOps Tool: Five Core Capabilities

DataOps tools are part of an emerging technology category that helps organizations streamline data delivery and improve productivity with process integrations and automations.

Infrastructure as Code Best Practices: Watch the Demo

Infrastructure as Code Best Practices: Watch the Demo

Looking for infrastructure-as-code best practices? Here's how Stonebranch automates new SaaS cloud deployments with Universal Automation Center.

Workload Automation Software Through the Years: 40+ Years of Progress

Workload Automation Software Through the Decades: 40+ Years of Progress

Though the workload automation (WLA) market is very mature, it’s beginning to exhibit the characteristics of a much younger market.