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Advantages of IT automation

Advantages of IT automation

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Advantages of IT automation

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- [Instructor] What are some of the advantages of using IT automation? Firstly, time savings. By automating the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks, IT staff can free up their time to be spent on higher level and more important tasks. Second would be faster service operations. IT automation can speed up, for example, data center and cloud operations considerably, reducing service and resource delivery times from weeks to hours. A reduction in errors. Automation ensures consistency on a large scale, something that's often impossible to do with individuals completing tasks manually. Better security. Automated processes require fewer humans to view and safeguard, for example, sensitive information, which reduces the possibility of breaches. Additionally, IT automation can be used to help IT and security teams keep up with an incident response process. And of course, cost savings. With IT automation, fewer labor…

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