HCL Workload Automation on Amazon Web Services

HCL Workload Automation (HWA) is a complete, modern solution for batch and real-time workload management. It enables organizations to gain complete visibility and control over attended or unattended workloads. It supports multiple platforms and provides advanced integration with more than 35 enterprise applications including ERP, Business Analytics, File Transfer, Big Data, and Cloud applications. 
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HCL Workload Automation is now offered on the Amazon Web Services cloud. You are now able to choose the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for HCL Workload Automation that better meets your business needs and within just a few minutes, easily launch an instance to deploy an HCL Workload Automation server with full on-premises capabilities on AWS.  
 
HCL Workload Automation on AWS improves flexibility and scalability of your automation environment. It helps in lowering costs and eliminating complexity, while reducing the operational overhead and the burden involved in managing your own infrastructure, so you can invest your time and resources in growing your business. Also, HCL Workload Automation on AWS delivers faster access to managed services solutions, for a full product lifecycle management. ​

HCL Workload Automation on AWS will your business to: 

• Increase productivity and governance for enterprise business critical workloads 
  
• Improve SLAs 
  
• Reduce operational costs 
  

• Deploy new services faster 
  
• Drive innovation and agility  
  

Getting Started ​

The HCL Workload Automation on Amazon Web Services offering includes two different Amazon Machine Images (AMI) to better suit the needs of your organization: 

• Full Stack on Linux Red Hat, version 7.4 
  
• RDS with remote Oracle server or Informix Database on Linux Red Hat, version 7.4 
  

 
After you have subscribed to HCL Workload Automation (BYOL) in the AWS Marketplace, launch the AMI to a have a full running environment. The HCL Workload Automation on AWS offering includes two different AMI(s) to better suit the needs of your organization: 

• Full- stack AMI - When your instance is created it provides you with the full product stack included an IBM DB2 installation. 
  
• Stack for Oracle or Informix database - When your instance is created, log in to the machine and run the required steps to configure Workload Automation to connect to a remote Oracle or Informix database. You do not need to execute anything special, just pass the required parameters to the documented script.  
  

 
HWA is initially configured to interact with clients using the DB2, and REST protocols and to run with a small bufferpool on a single CPU VP. If you've ordered a larger EC2 type and want to get more power from Informix please consider increasing the number of CPU VPs as well as the bufferpool.  

HCL Workload Automation on Amazon Web Services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtzG_GFHxss 
 
To start using HCL Workload Automation contact us:  HWAinfo@hcl.com.  

Phillip Gayle
Regional Sales Director

Phillip is the North American Sales Director for HCL Workload Automation. Phillip has valuable experience in Sales, IT Operations, Security & Privacy, and Marketing. Phillip has worked with both Global and Local companies from various industries across all of North America.