Who's Using Who?

The professional lives of systems administrators and other IT personnel's often revolve around a series of repetitive tasks such as configuring servers, creating users, managing applications and services, and patching.  Even in a stable, slow changing environment, or in an environment with only a few servers, these tasks are repeated several times during the lifecycle of a server.

Most I.T. personnel attempt to automate these processes over a period of time via custom built scripts and applications.  Depending on the administrator, these scripts are unlikely to scale to larger environments, lack documentation, error checking, or even comments.  They also tend to be platform dependent.  When an administrator leaves, they often leave the scripts behind, along with the knowledge of how to use them properly, thereby starting the process over again.

Taking Control

One solution to the problem presented above is Technology Advocate's configuration management solutions.  In partnership with top companies such as Reductive Labs, Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft, Technology Advocates can investigate your organization's current configurations, identify application stacks, and use one or more tiered configuration management solutions to standardize not only your OS's, but your application servers.  By controlling configuration, instituting change management as needed, and implement accounting and auditing of servers and applications, we can reduce the load on your IT department, allowing you to spend more time innovating and less time remediating.