Modern data centers are constantly evolving to meet demands from the business. Virtualization, high availability and consolidation efforts are intended to reduce costs and increase utilization, however implementing those solutions partially or wholly have contributed to the complexity to the datacenter as a whole.

As the data center becomes more complex, IT operations become more challenging and administrators struggle to meet the needs of the business. This in turn creates challenges for IT organizations to respond to the needs of the business in a timely manner, reduce the costs of operations and maintenance, and ensure and enhance the quality of service.

Stratavia's award-winning data center automation software, Data Palette, centralizes standard operating procedures and uses an expert engine to deliver those standards across the data center. Data Palette uses an integrated, environmentally-aware run book automation engine to orchestrate system level tasks with enterprise systems such as incident management systems and ticketing systems to model and automate full end-to-end process workflows. Data Palette standard operating procedures deliver services consistently, and use decision automation and environmental awareness to scale operational standards across large numbers of heterogeneous configurations, versions and platforms.