Seems like your experience is a case of ”ad hoc” systems management and I know what you’re saying is all to common in the enterprise world though. Having spent

Seems like your experience is a case of ”ad hoc” systems management and I know what you’re saying is all to common in the enterprise world though. Having spent my entire working life automating infrastructure of all kinds I know you can achieve an enourmous increase in efficency rather easiliy with a few well placed automated processes. I’ve always been baffled by the fact that at any given larger company there are 100’s of employees trying to supply the business with tools to automate business processes — the IT dept. Yet, they are completely incapable of using these very same tools to automate their own ”business”. And the resistance I’ve been met with at different places through the years when trying to implement the simplest of automation is massive. I used to laugh at the ”cloud” bacause, back then, at 25 years of age, sitting at a medium size company with boatloads of cash, I assumed everyone was doing it the way we were; automating all the things. Now, many years later I’v obviously realized that many places simply does not have the right culture and mindset as it’s not “core business”. I believe however that this is changing, and changing quickly. In many ways thanks to the “cloud”.