Three IT Innovations That Are Worth To Be Implemented

KAZAN, Russia, September 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Analysts speak positively of Russian IT outsourcing, and we are sure we will pass the development stage faster than the USA and Europe once did. Today, Russian companies can be supported by best practices and processes. That is why it is possible to raise maturity level of customers and suppliers more efficiently and much faster using experience of international IT outsourcing and a skilled service provider. And if best practice is supplemented by innovations, we can get the turbo mode of development in mature services.

Let's review three IT trends that are worth to be implemented by Russian companies whatever field they belong to.

Change of approach to IT infrastructure lifecycle 

All industries pass through such stages as they grow: from handicraft industry to mass production. IT sector is not an exception. IT routine automation is an inevitable stepping stone to efficiency and productivity improvement of IT services, i.e., of the whole company. To reduce IT operational cost and the time of task fulfilment by IT department, the following technology can be used.

Server Automation Tool (SAT) is a solution for servers infrastructure management developed by ICL Services in order to provide customers with an efficient adaptive support tool without changing their IT environments.

SAT includes SaltStack that is the most efficient automation tool coupled with in-house elements and integrated with other tools in order to provide the required functionality. The tool works with all basic aspects of infrastructure management: deployment, maintenance, refresh, and modification.

Tasks can be started both on separate and on multiple (thousands) hosts. Moreover, it can be a hybrid infrastructure and contain parts based on various public cloud services (Amazon Webservices, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform), private clouds (on the basis of OpenStack, VMWare vCloud). In addition, SAT supports the currently trendy "Infrastructure as Code" approach.

State is a basic term; this is a description of the desired state of your infrastructure. Declarative description of states is the fundamental difference between SaltStack (and SAT) and traditional (imperative) automation tools that determine "what should be done and how" instead of "what do we want to obtain."

Another key distinction - event-triggered responses. In particular, they enable to implement automatic incident response. SAT can be integrated with monitoring and IT services management (ITSM) solutions. Mainly, such integration leads to waiting time reduction and improvement of the infrastructure maintenance personnel performance.