As application management and deployment becomes increasingly complex IT departments that manually manage application operations and their related databases are continually challenged. Through automated application management and deployment this process becomes more efficient and less of a burden on IT.

This white paper outlines four key steps to automating software management and deployment in traditional, virtualised, and cloud environments. In addition to these steps, some of the key findings in this paper include:

• Pitfalls and challenges of manual application management
• Complexity of managing these systems
• Things to avoid when implementing an automation script
• And more.