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Private cloud infrastructure creates complex, fast-paced IT environments that businesses need to manage effectively to sustain operations. As a result, many companies are embracing third-party tools that help them better handle the cloud. Automation is among these solutions, TechTarget reported.

According to the news source, automation is one of the tools that has gained mainstream acceptance among private cloud users, and it is proving essential in enabling robust service catalog capabilities.

Traditionally, the self-service portal and service catalog are two separate entities. But automation allows companies to unite them into a single function, giving employees immediate access to the various applications and services that they need. The report explained cloud-based service catalogs can allow users to access solutions from the back office IT infrastructure with minimal oversight from the actual IT department.

Datacenter automation is integral in making this kind of flexibility possible. Without this technology, the server provisioning that goes with each new service would need to be handled manually, making the self-service portal far less effective and efficient. Furthermore, cloud maintenance tasks would be overwhelming without automated provisioning and management.