The Shortcut Guide to IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling

The Shortcut Guide to IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Sponsored by Advanced Systems Concepts

"With the explosion of data systems in most enterprises, the need to integrate and share data across systems becomes vital. For most organizations, this means coordinating a delicate balance of processes that move data between systems. The task of orchestrating this movement, tracking and troubleshooting issues, and optimizing the use of shared enterprise resources is quite daunting. Add to that the changing face of service oriented architectures and the need to maintain green IT operations, and the prospect can become overwhelming.

This shortcut guide provides CIOs, IT Managers, Enterprise Architects and IT Operations personnel with an incisive look into the issues surrounding the scheduling and automation of jobs in heterogeneous enterprise environments. It provides insights into the key obstacles to overcome and provides best practices to help design and maintain the operation of mission critical tasks throughout the organization."
  _{– Mark Scott of Realtime Publishers}

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Chapter List

The Shortcut Guide to IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling offers clients powerful content in four chapters:

Chapter 1: Challenges of IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling	Download PDF
Chapter 2: IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling	Download PDF
Chapter 3: IT Workload Automation and Job Design and Configuration	Download PDF
Chapter 4: Best Practices for IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling	Download PDF

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Chapter Description

Chapter 1  examines the various challenges of job scheduling. By identifying the current challenges and looking toward those that loom in the future, an organization can take steps to assume control of job automation and remain its pilot rather than its victim. The chapter addresses the complexity of planning and overseeing the execution of jobs in heterogeneous environments. It looks at working with diverse platforms and the trials of disparate data types, connectivity issues, languages, and control paradigms. It considers issues with remote locations, including time zones, synchronization of data, and delivery options. It also reviews the factors of managing such interconnections of systems.     Download

Chapter 2  addresses the specific complexity involved in job scheduling itself. The chapter begins with a discussion of the process of defining a job and its requirements. It explores job scheduling based on time, running jobs at a specific point of the day and/or within the constraints of a specified window of time. It looks at scheduling that is event driven, often employing resources dynamically to meet the current needs. It delves into job execution, using the right resources at the right time, and the intricacies of error detection and recovery. It speaks to monitoring and setting alerts to keep the operational staff well informed and ready to intervene as required.     Download

Chapter 3  dives into the specific details of job design and configuration. It looks at job modeling to encapsulate business processes and design a system that is compatible with the business need for the job. It looks at target platforms and discusses the consideration of data formats and execution languages. It considers the choices in communications solutions between systems, from file transfers to queues to Web services and other networked communications. It reviews the incorporation of conditional logic and security in job flows. It also addresses enterprise service architectures, including enterprise services buses, single points of deployment, and the interaction of existing business processes with the requirements for IT workload automation.     Download

Chapter 4  tackles best practices for IT workload automation and job scheduling throughout the enterprise. This includes establishing effective service level agreements (SLAs). It discusses job deployment and execution, and suggests best practices for monitoring and auditing job execution. It explores resource management and improving efficiency to help build “greener” computer operations and data centers. It also explores systems architecture issues from scalability to portability to resiliency.     Download

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About The Publisher

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