{"id":7864,"date":"2013-06-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2705713"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:00:00","slug":"navigating-cloud-automation-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/navigating-cloud-automation-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating Cloud Automation Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key aspects of cloud\u2019s value to an organization is the way in which its implementation and processes can impact the bottom line of a business. Automation, in particular, is an issue in the cloud that can have a major effect on cost, and there are two major ways to think about what generates the automation ethos that informs a company\u2019s cloud strategy.<br \/>\nFrom the engineering perspective, if something needs to be done more than once, it should be automated. This saves times and effort, becomes a repeatable task, and since it was automated, everything comes out uniform. All of these<br \/>\nBusiness considerations are the other main drivers for automation. Is it cheaper to implement a human solution to a problem, or is it cheaper to install a piece of software? Regardless of the engineering ethos, when a business gets to the level of asking these questions, there are cases where it\u2019s cheaper to utilize human power or where it\u2019s cheaper to rely on a machine powered solution or a combo thereof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2705713\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key aspects of cloud&rsquo;s value to an organization is the way in which its implementation and processes can impact the bottom line of a business. Automation, in particular, is an issue in the cloud that can have a major effect on cost, and there are two major ways to think about what generates the automation ethos that informs a company&rsquo;s cloud strategy.<br \/>\nFrom the engineering perspective, if something needs to be done more than once, it should be automated. This saves times and effort, becomes a repeatable task, and since it was automated, everything comes out uniform. All of these<br \/>\nBusiness considerations are the other main drivers for automation. Is it cheaper to implement a human solution to a problem, or is it cheaper to install a piece of software? Regardless of the engineering ethos, when a business gets to the level of asking these questions, there are cases where it&rsquo;s cheaper to utilize human power or where it&rsquo;s cheaper to rely on a machine powered solution or a combo thereof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2705713\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}