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1. Cisco Workload Automation

Adapter Overview

Data center automation is critically important to IT departments that are focused on unifying and standardizing

their operations management. Automation technology supports data center initiatives because it helps simplify

day-to-day operations, reduces costs, and promotes IT and business flexibility.

Workload scheduling is an important category of IT operations management that gives organizations the control

and visibility necessary to operate today’s dynamic data centers. Automation of business process workloads is

essential to complex data centers because it helps them operate more efficiently and reliably. Cisco

Workload

Automation (CWA) is the industry-standard workload automation (WLA) solution, transparently automating

critical scheduled and event-based interdependent business processes.

Cisco Workload Automation connects to heterogeneous environments, creating an infrastructure service

platform, providing end-to-end management of critical operation tasks and data throughput. With this enterprise

wide scheduling solution that automates complex processes and adapts to changing environments, IT

managers can quickly add business value by improving the quality of service-level agreement (SLA) delivery,

reallocating resources to business-critical projects, and supplying the accurate data-processing results

necessary for strategic decision making. This approach to workload management dramatically reduces human

errors and the inefficiencies of script management.

Cisco Workload Automation can easily configure and run scheduled workloads and event-based business

processes, integrate the commercial and custom applications these processes use, and determine which tasks

to run - and where and when to run them - without the need for human intervention, customization of existing

tools, or knowledge of new scripting languages. Additionally, Cisco Workload Automation provides a single view

and point of control for all business processes and the jobs that comprise them.

Developed as an n-tier Java architecture application, Cisco Workload Automation can scale to meet the most

demanding SLAs. It is currently in production worldwide, handling hundreds of concurrent users, managing

thousands of connections, and running hundreds of thousands of jobs a day. Cisco Workload Automation

connects to and can manage complex workloads on many popular OS platforms and integrates with major

enterprise applications and standards-based technologies (Figure 1). Cisco Workload Automation can be

implemented quickly, allowing users to accelerate time-to-value while simplifying their entire workload-

processing environment.