Top 10 Business

Benefits of IT

Automation

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Over 2,700 community-contributed

modules

Founded in 2005

Over 10 million nodes managed

Deep partnerships with datacenter titans

800+ enterprise customers

EXPERIENCE

SCALE

ECOSYSTEM

CUSTOMERS

COMMUNITY

BACKING

THE IT AUTOMATION LEADER

MORE COMPUTING POWER

MORE COMPLEXITY

GREATER EXPECTATIONS

GREATER OPPORTUNITIES

DON’T WORK

Manual configurations

Custom scripts

Golden images

Legacy tools

*It costs reliability, speed, productivity & insight.

AUTOMATE IT.Make rapid, repeatable changes and enforce the

consistency of systems and devices.

Operating Systems

Virtual & Cloud

Applications

Network & Storage

Users · Groups · Firewall

Packages · Services

DNS · NTP · SSH

Kernel Settings · Files

Repositories · Mounts

Jobs · Scheduling

SO WHAT?

Mistake-Made-Legend Example: Knight

Capital Group, which in 2012 famously lost

$460 million in 45 minutes of trading due to

a failed update that had been manually

made to 8-year-old software.

Next Week & PuppetConf#1. Avoiding Downtime

Next Week & PuppetConf#2. Easier Policy Enforcement

Next Week & PuppetConf#3. Visibility, Auditability and

Accountability

Next Week & PuppetConf#4. Consistency

Enforce changes

and remediate

configuration drift

Next Week & PuppetConf#5. Better Code Quality

High performing IT organizations have

double the change success rate &

restore service 12 times faster than their peers.

Fewer failures and faster recovery mean

less risk to the business when changes are

deployed.

Source: 2014 State of DevOps Report

Next Week & PuppetConf#6. Quicker Recovery

Next Week & PuppetConf#7. Fast Response to Software

Vulnerability Announcements

Next Week & PuppetConf#8. Scalability

DEFINE

ONCE

AUTOMATE

EVERYWHERE

Next Week & PuppetConf#9. The Confidence to Level Up

Next Week & PuppetConf#10. Self-Service for

Colleagues Outside IT

Thank You!

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