Complexity
Demands on data centers are growing dramatically, budgets and staff levels are essentially flat, and data centers themselves are becoming so complex, they’ve become increasingly hard to manage. Increases in data center complexity mean IT and operations leaders must manage multi-tier, heterogeneous infrastructures that are now increasingly web-enabled, virtualized and often still tied to legacy mainframe applications. Finding and fixing performance problems in complex data centers is a daunting task for IT operations and business counterparts.Article: APM Digest: Control or Change? Maintaining Enterprise Performance Without Compromising Innovation
Businesses will need change management and configuration management resources that can allow them to effectively drive...
Article: Automated Application Deployment Is Not Enough! 3 Reasons Why You Absolutely Still Need To Validate Your Releases
Despite the widespread use of deployment automation software today, change and release validation plays a critical role in maintaining optimum availability and performance, preventing harmful downtime.
Article: Can You Spot the Differences in Your IT Environments?
When considering the challenges of maintaining IT environment stability, I was reminded of spot the difference pictures. The concept of Granular Configuration Automation is about automatically finding the smallest changes in an environment and...
Article: Changes, Incidents and Unintended Consequences Index
Get a feel for how unplanned changes in your organization lead to incidents that have a serious impact on the performance of your IT environment.
Article: Complexity isn’t simple: multiple causes of IT failure
Peter Kretzman explores the price of IT complexity, seeing how IT failures are costing the world incredible amounts of real money.
Article: Control and Agility in IT: BSM Review Interviews Evolven CEO Sasha Gilenson
The BSM Review recently interviewed Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven, to gain insights into how best to balance control and agility for today's IT Operations and still meet the ongoing needs of the business.
Article: Costs and Scope of Unplanned Outages
Despite advances in infrastructure robustness, occasional hardware, software and database downtime still occurs. We know that outages are big, but how big is the cost of unplanned IT outages?
Article: Does Virtualization Introduce New Configuration Management Challenges?
Nearly 75% of a recently surveyed audience of IT professionals agreed that virtualization introduces new management challenges for IT operations.
Article: Entering the Change Twilight Zone and How to Overcome It
Change happens. Change keeps the world on the move. In a recent webinar with the Enterprise Management Association (EMA) a concept was introduced describing the critical areas where processes typically break down and where critical information is...
Article: Forrester Rediscovers BSM with Evolven
In the recent Forrester Research report, "It's Time to Rediscover BSM", Forrester Analysts identify the new breed of solutions that will prove useful in helping IT operations professionals achieve their IT management goals. Evolven is noted as one of...
Article: Forrester: Assessing Complexity In IT Operations
Complexity is a recurring theme for today's infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives. In a recent report from Forrester Research on "Assessing Complexity In IT Operations," Evolven was one of the companies interviewed to address the...
Article: IT Analytics Rise Up, Take On Cloud Mantle
Internet Evolution's ThinkerNet editor, Mary Jander, raises the issue of how analytics has led to better business decision-making and applying this approach to the IT landscape to improve the management of the modern datacenter.
Article: IT Survival Tips for Reducing Uncertainty and Preparing for the Worst
Despite the best efforts of IT organizations to take steps against failure, with numerous safeguards, a major source of today's failures can be attributed to both complexity and simply human error.
Article: Manufacturing Happiness? How a Customer Improved Stability and Radically Cut Unplanned Changes
Struggling with downtime and instability in the management of your modern data center? See how this Evolven customer improved stability and cut unnessary IT configuration changes by 90%.
Article: Notes From The Trenches: Obstacles and Challenges To IT Environment Stability
Are you working in the IT trenches? Do release transitions and incidents impact your environment? Hear about the real challenges encountered by a Test Environment Manager.
Article: Rollout and Rollback – a Viable Strategy?
Rollout and rollback doesn't appear to be a viable approach in large environments. With the ability to roll back in the cloud, you can recover rapidly from the deployment issues. However in large environments, we’ve found that the management of...
Article: Sh*t IT Ops Guys Say [Video]
You must watch this video (make sure your boss is not around...;)) Let's hear what you have to say.
Article: Speed, Complexity and Change - Facing the Pitfalls of Configuration Management
Reliable, accurate and visible configuration data makes a critical difference for keeping business on track, yet today's complexity, agility and constant change make this effort harder than ever. Configuration management needs to be redefined to...
Article: The Growth of ALM and the Need for Tools and Techniques to Keep ALM on Course
Agile development today is creating a heavy impact on application lifecycle management. There is a lot of...
Article: The IT Operations Hangover
Hey there's a tiger in the bathroom! Having all kinds of unexpected surprises in your data center? Maybe the quantity and speed of changes are getting out of hand, and you are feeling like you are having an IT Operations hangover.
