May
06
15 Years of Chronic Change and Configuration Challenges
Labels: Downtime
News headlines have remained consistent over the last 15 years. Change and configuration management challenges are chronic and these challenges can lead to critical operational issues that can even reach the news headlines.
Apr
30
Hey It’s Cool to be a Gartner Cool Vendor
It's nice to sometimes get validation from the outside. So we're proud to announce that Gartner has recently named us as a "Cool Vendor in IT Operations Management"
Apr
24
Misconfiguration Strikes Again Setting Off Google Apps Outage
Labels: Configuration Management, Downtime
Google Apps went down this week, frustrating many users and organizations. Following an investigation, Google reported that a misconfiguration was source of the outage. How can you best stay on top of the many configuration changes in your data center, and keep your production environment available?
Apr
22
Coming up with a new configuration and change management plan
Change is a constant in IT operations yet has become more frequent, growing in complexity. Despite all the experience in dealing with change, doing so gracefully and efficiently is still one of the most challenging aspects of IT operations. Are you ready to effectively support change in your IT environments?
Mar
21
Webinar with Forrester IT Analytics Can End Change and Configuration Challenges [On-demand Webinar]
Labels: Webinar, IT Operations Analytics
Forrester Research's VP and Principal Analyst, Jean-Pierre Garbani and Evolven's CEO and Co-Founder, Sasha Gilenson, brought in an great crowd in with their impressive insights on how you can apply IT Analytics to your IT operations and get a handle on your Big Data problems. Learn how IT Analytics is ready to end 15 years of chronic change and configuration challengess.
Mar
01
Weekly IT Highlights on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps, and trends for Cloud and More
As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week.
Feb
28
Chaos in IT Operations
Labels: Complexity, IT Operations
Survey reveals that the IT operations tools most organizations rely on are generally considered ineffective, and most of the processes used are labor-intensive. How can IT operations management be more effective?
Feb
27
POWER100 - Top IT Management Analysts
Check out our POWER100, a handpicked list of analysts focused on IT Management. These analysts have a tremendous influence on the IT Management segment and on IT in general.
Feb
08
Weekly IT Highlights on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for Cloud and More
As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week.
Feb
05
Super Bowl Outage Blamed on Configuration Change...OK. Not Really
Super Bowl 2013 will be long remembered for innovative commercials and a 34 minute outage, which may have turned the tide of the game itself. While unplanned or unauthorized changes to IT infrastructure configuration wasn't really responsible for this outage, this event drives home the tremendous costs and consequences of outages for an organization.
Feb
04
Managing Application Changes requires More than Just Automation
Application changes have brought about the biggest challenge in IT. Yet relying on automation alone for the application delivery process is not enough and deployment automation alone still falls short.
Feb
01
Weekly IT Highlights on Shadow IT, IT Salaries, IT Operations Analytics and trends for Cloud and More
Labels: Weekly
As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Shadow IT, IT Salaries, IT Operations Analytics and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week.
Jan
31
You Can Improve Performance Charlie Brown!
IT operations struggles with sustaining stability and maintaining performance. Many have just come to accept this situation as a norm and simply bear with this daily struggle. To avoid problems and downtime, I&O teams need effective change management and configuration management tools to know what is happening in their environments
Jan
29
10 Kick Ass IT Salary Survey Results
According to many of the salary surveys we've compiled, the past year has seen a rise in IT management salaries, with companies openly hiring more IT personnel. To keep track of what's happening with your career, the IT world, and the people that are involved in IT, we put together a comprehensive list of salary survey and compensation results for IT professionals.
Jan
28
What is IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)?
Labels: IT Operations Analytics
For IT Operations, change is a fact of life. Change takes place at every level of the application and infrastructure stack and impacts nearly every part of the business. When an incident occurs, can you quickly know "what changed"?
