This paper outlines some strategies and gives you specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely advice on how to:

• Assess your situation
• Address the problems
• Automate change processes
• Improve visibility
• Establish the single source of accurate information
• Establish process controls
• Streamline interaction with other IT disciplines

These incremental strategies, drawn from established Best Practices, will allow you to integrate data center changes as a standard operating procedure, making your organization more agile and effective, while reducing the potential for risk and maintaining data center infrastructure stability.