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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. Read more...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%. Read more...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. Read more...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. Read more...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 handle this new reality. Read more...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 often lost due to lack of visibility. Resolving this, Evolven uses breakthrough analytics to identify those specific changes and differences that are introduced across the environment and actually matter to the user. Read more...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 information available on agile development practices and tools, however the question remains, how do you handle the entire lifecycle in agile conditions and how do you integrate your process when you start to work in an agile approach?
Read more... Take Your Incident Investigation Into the Details for Root-cause Analysis
Recurring outages and major incidents can prove to be a nightmare for IT organizations. With the stakes high, and pressure on every second, you need to not only be able to resolve incidents quickly and but also make sure the root cause was addressed so that the issue doesn't come up again. Read more...Using Change Management to Catch Issues Before Impact to Business
Companies today heavily rely on change control processes to manage IT related changes. Many IT organizations have recognized the complex impact that infrastructural changes have on the enterprise. The key here is to manage infrastructure changes and not just control it.
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