Recent times already had companies accommodating the idea of automating processes wherever possible for efficiency. But, as economic downturns and cash crunches continue to strain corporate coffers, automation is needed more than ever for organizations to do more with less.

“We’ve got exponential data growth and more architectural complexity than ever before,” said Daniel Newman (pictured), principal analyst and founding partner at Futurum Research. “Companies are trying to discern how to deal with many different environments. And just at a macro level, Red Hat is one of the companies that will almost certainly be part of this multicloud, hybrid cloud era.”

Newman spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Lisa Martin at the AnsibleFest event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Ansible working to add useful, new capabilities to its IT automation tool. (* Disclosure below.)

Project Wisdom brings improved smarts to IT automation

Seeing the need to give IT automation developers a productivity boost with the infusion of artificial intelligence, an initiative co-engineered by Red Hat Inc. and IBM Research has been unveiled. Called Project Wisdom, the solution is an intelligent natural language processing engine for Ansible and the larger IT automation space. It works by enabling users to input a command that it parses to build the concomitant automation workflow, which can then be set to work automating many other IT tasks.

“What we need to see is infrastructure, automation layers and applications working in concert to basically enable enterprises to be up and running all the time,” Newman explained. “Let’s first fix the problems that are most common. Let’s automate them, let’s script them, and then, at some point, let’s have them self-resolving, which we saw at the end with Project Wisdom.

The project aims to bridge the syntactical gap between Ansible code and human language so that plain English, for example, can generate functional automation content.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AnsibleFest event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AnsibleFest event. Neither Red Hat Inc., the main sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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