The Benefits of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Enterprise
Overview: This IDC white paper, sponsored by Red Hat and authored by Stephen Elliot (Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, IDC) and Harsh Singh (Senior Research Analyst, Business Value Strategy Practice, IDC), details the advantages of using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in enterprise IT operations. Published in October 2021, the document (IDC #US48678022) highlights the platform’s impact on improving efficiency, accelerating execution cycles, and enhancing operations across network, storage, architecture, and IT security teams through IT automation based on Ansible’s software-driven approach.
Key Features and Benefits: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform standardizes and automates IT operations, containers, and configurations in cloud environments through a streamlined and replicable model. It provides a flexible framework for building automation foundations across all domains on a large scale. The platform allows centralized control of infrastructure with a dashboard, role-based access control, analytics tools, and certified, reusable automation content.
Key Findings and Statistics:
- Return on Investment (ROI): Over five years, businesses experienced an ROI of 667% with a payback period of 10 months.
- Efficiency Gains: There was a 30% efficiency gain in IT infrastructure management, 29% in network infrastructure management, and 30% in IT security team efficiency.
- Deployment Speed: 75% faster deployment of new storage resources.
- Application Development: A 39% increase in the number of applications developed annually.
- Unplanned Interruptions: A 76% reduction in unplanned interruptions.
- Additional Annual Revenue: An increase of $1.9 million in additional annual revenue.
Challenges and Opportunities: The report discusses the challenges in managing the increasing complexity of IT infrastructure, applications, security, and multicloud environments. It emphasizes the necessity of automation to scale these environments efficiently. Despite these challenges, Ansible Automation Platform presents opportunities for better collaboration, data access, analytics, and security controls, fostering a more efficient and comprehensive operational approach.
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