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min read</p> <p class="card-paragraph"> Organizations are rethinking their data centers and nothing is off limits for discussion – everything from infrastructure to software to processes, and even more fundamentally, the very ways in which a data center serves the business. One element that is empowering this phenomenal shift is IT automation. It is vital. No automation, no effective IT. 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Each one needs speed, agility, efficiency, and a clear definition of its relationship with all of the other areas and the business as a whole. 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