Cloud: The Triumph of Automation over Administration

This session will cover just that: automation. Automation is what allows cloud infrastructures to expand rapidly without a corresponding increase in administrator headcount. Automation is what allows business teams and developers to deploy and scale applications in the cloud in minutes instead of weeks. Without automation, it would be impossible to keep web-scale applications such as Twitter, Facebook, and Ebay running. Also, without automation, the cost of managing these web-scale environments would quickly spiral out of control. In this session, find out what automation truly is and how to “test” your storage vendor: ask them if you can take their system out of the box, put it in a rack with power and a network connection, and have APIs handle the rest. That means you walk away, and you don't have anyone log into this box as long as it is on your network. That is the true essence of cloud-scale automation.

- by Dave Wright