I’ve seen many shops with hundreds of OS-level jobs to manage — file copies, system reboots, defrags, FTP jobs, and so forth — and the admins there all have done the same thing: They go from server to ...

Unfortunately, sprawl has a way of creeping into any system, even virtual ones. Costs can quickly escalate due to lax or antiquated resource management regimens. For example, managers can easily ...

“With these new capabilities, we're expanding the traditional definition of runbook automation and IT operations to include a new set of infrastructure processes and maintenance tasks that are driven ...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. has debuted ActiveBatch Extension for Azure, an add-on to its ActiveBatch Version 9 workload automation platform. ActiveBatch Extension for Azure lets IT provision and ...

Imagine being able to run complex scheduled tasks — say, backing up one-third of your agency's systems every third night on a rolling three-day schedule without ever having to worry about remembering ...