Up in the Sky
Regulated Regulation
Expected Benefits
Titles & Responsibility
To Automate or
Not To Automate
100
The process of making one physical server act as many "individual" servers.
What is Virtualization?
100
If you do business with the US Credit Card industry, you must follow this three letter acronym's compliance.
What is PCI Compliance?
100
Faster provisioning of servers, patching of servers, and maintaining compliance of servers across all platforms.
What are Benefits of Server Automation?
100
Responsible for everything and everyone in the IT Organization.
Who is the CIO?
100
Consistently Deploy and manage Services across applications, middleware, databases, servers, and networks for both physical and cloud infrastructures.
What is Data Center Automation & Cloud Management?
200
Public, Private, or Hybrid
What are types of cloud?
200
Publicly traded companies (stockmarket) in the US and abroad must follow this regulation.
What is SOX Compliance?
200
Decrease Mean Time to Resolution and Decrease Overall Ticket Volumes
What are Benefits of Service Desk Automation?
200
Would be a viable candidate for Service Desk Automation.
Who is the Service Desk/Help Desk Manager, Director, or VP?
200
Release Lifecycle Management, Release Process Management, and BMC Middleware automation.
What is DevOps?
300
Provisioning, Patching, Managing, Compliance, and De-Provisioning are all a part of this solution.
What is Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM)?
300
In order to be certain that IT Departments are insuring compliance, this activity usually occurs at minimum, once per year.
What is an Audit?
300
Day 2 compliance and patch management across both public and private infrastructure.
What are expected benefits of Cloud Lifecycle Management?
300
Oversees everything regarding compliance, auditing, and IT security.
Who is the Chief Information Security Officer?
300
Automation can help reduce "this" between the Business and IT?
What is IT Friction?
400
AWS, Azure, and V Cloud Air
What are public cloud providers?
400
This function of automation allows for the immediate or scheduled "fix" of a system out of compliance.
What is Remediation?
400
Faster and more easily repeatable process to move applications from development to production while avoiding outages and downtime.
What is RLM, RPM, or DevOps?
400
Would be a good candidate for automation in general depending on if they oversaw the servers, networks, databases, or middleware.
Who is the IT Operations Supervisor, Manager, Director, or VP?
400
Trusted cloud is important for companies because of this seemingly nefarious sounding practice by users within the business.
What is Shadow IT?
500
When selling CLM we want customers to focus on insuring changes in the cloud are recorded, auditable, and consistent across environments.
What is The Trusted Cloud Sales Play?
500
This financial standard regulates much of Europe's Financial industry.
What is Basel II?
500
This company saw a 75% reduction in deployment times using only one person.
What is CMC Markets?
500
Typically is doing 75% of their work on non-revenue generating activities but would be fearful of job security if you spoke about automation. You most likely would NOT contact this person.
Who is a Database Administrator (DBA)?
500
Foundational, Full, and Advanced. A company falls somewhere in this.
What are the Stages of Automation?
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