Advantages of IT automation

People often wonder if IT automation really brings enough advantages, considering that implementing it has some direct and indirect costs. The main benefits of IT automation are the following:

• The ability to provision machines quickly
• The ability to recreate a machine from scratch in minutes
• The ability to track any change performed on the infrastructure

For these reasons, it's possible to reduce the cost of managing the IT infrastructure by reducing the repetitive operations often performed by system administrators.