Automation – Lawrence Hecht

Transforming Information Into Knowledge

May 26, 2017January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Don’t Automatically Make Automation Assumptions

Automation did not originate with Henry Ford’s assembly line. Automation will not end with voice-enabled, machine-learning chatbots supporting ITSM. Automation is evolutionary. Even though time savings are real, every few months it’s important to throw cold water on optimistic expectations. A recent blog by HfS Research CEO Phil […]

February 23, 2017February 1, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Automation Is Still Hand-coded

A year ago, most users of containers were not using orchestration tools, but instead relied on custom scripts, CLIs and perhaps their configuration management solutions. Those were supposedly early adopters. Six months ago an UBM/Interop ITX report, based on a broader base of general cloud computing users, found […]