Reducing the cost of IT operations-is automation always the answer?

Proceedings of HotOS 2005 - 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Brown, Aaron B ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COST REDUCTION;

AUTOMATED PROCESS; AUTOMATION OF PROCESS; BENEFITS AND COSTS; COST OF OPERATIONS; MANUAL PROCESS; PROCESS-BASED; QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTIONS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953049936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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