{"id":18896,"date":"2015-11-25T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3569668"},"modified":"2015-11-25T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:30:00","slug":"the-language-of-provisioning-by-dmacvittie-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-language-of-provisioning-by-dmacvittie-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Provisioning By @DMacVittie | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of automated provisioning as a formal written language definition, it does have some value in illuminating issues with partial automation or portions of the overall data center that are not automated.<br \/>\nThe path to automation is not a straight one at most organizations. It takes time, it takes resources, and even though there is a definable ROI, the press of business needs wins every time there is a conflict \u2013 because meeting business needs is pretty much the purpose of IT.<br \/>\nBut taking the staggered approach has costs too, and it\u2019s good on occasion to look at them. I\u2019ve admittedly created this view, but it is a way to consider your automation efforts and how well they\u2019re working with regard to the end goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3569668\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of automated provisioning as a formal written language definition, it does have some value in illuminating issues with partial automation or portions of the overall data center that are not automated.<br \/>\nThe path to automation is not a straight one at most organizations. It takes time, it takes resources, and even though there is a definable ROI, the press of business needs wins every time there is a conflict &ndash; because meeting business needs is pretty much the purpose of IT.<br \/>\nBut taking the staggered approach has costs too, and it&rsquo;s good on occasion to look at them. I&rsquo;ve admittedly created this view, but it is a way to consider your automation efforts and how well they&rsquo;re working with regard to the end goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3569668\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19081,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896\/revisions\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}