The API catalog helps us use Ansible automation. We still have to build custom providers for PowerFlex Manager to use Ansible, but what we developed has enabled us to provision computer storage power for less than 16 hours.

The solution has helped reduce our costs and increase our performance.

It has reduced downtime. Before on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. Currently, I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion.

Recently we used it in a hybrid setup for infrastructure between the VMs and the physical. Managing such an environment is a little bit tricky. Now, we have now one solution for everything or for the different environments that we have with us with production, disaster recovery, and UAT. Everything gets managed from one platform. Everything is happening from one place instead of just physically. In the past, managing the physical servers alone and then VMs that we have on different versions, just dealing with the different environments was a nightmare. But now since we have everything in one platform, it's much easier, especially since we don't have a very big team. 

So I just needed a simple way to manage things that aligned with the business demands without wasting my time, troubleshooting, and trying to find what the problem was and integrations between the different solutions that we have here and there. Whether it's at a hardware level or software level or network, having everything in one place made my life much easier.