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Enterprises typically maintain data centers with hundreds of servers. Without the automated features we outline in this report, administrators would need to spend hours of their time on simple, repetitive, but necessary tasks, leaving little room for work that more directly impacts your critical business objectives.
Because the time required to complete tasks remained constant when using OpenManage Enterprise, and because time scaled linearly when using the manual process, we were able to extrapolate our data to what one would expect for a large data center. Figure 3 highlights the reduction in time and effort we estimate an administrator would see when completing firmware updates for 1,000 servers.
Figure 3: Time and effort we estimate an administrator would save using OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 vs. a manual method to manage 1,000 servers.
Source: Principled Technologies.