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DevOps Developments: Bob Aiello Interviews Sasha Gilenson
DevOps stands to make a major impact on the hectic implementation of application releases and ongoing change requests, bringing Development and Operations closer together and working in tighter cooperation. Bob Aiello of CM Crossroads video interviews Sasha Gilenson to get a better perspective of how DevOps will close these gaps and make release deployments more effective. Read more...Change Management Challenges in Today's Complex IT Landscape
IT operations teams face the strain of constant change requests, further compounded by increasingly complex environments that need to be kept available and operating at high performance continuously. Due to this, the main cause of slowdown in IT infrastructures is from changes. Read more...Configuration Management to Keep Virtualization On Target
The growth of virtual environments makes management increasingly complex making it more difficult to optimize and control. Consider these areas of virtualization management to ensure that the benefits promised through virtualization are not lost. Read more...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. Read more...The Crucial Role DevOps Plays in Change & Configuration Management
One of the main drivers for DevOps is change. Organizations feel the need to increase speed and be able to react instantly to changing business requirements. The emerging DevOps discipline can show its real value to Change Management and Configuration Management, bringing Development and Operations closer together.
5 Reasons Why Virtualization Could Turn into a Nightmare Without Configuration Management
One of the virtualization myths is that in the virtual world configuration management is just not important. The reality is that Change Management and Configuration management is crucial for virtualized environments. Here are 5 reasons why you should make sure that solid virtualization configuration management is in place to meet the demands of the virtual world. Read more...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? Read more...A 5 Point Game-Plan For Reducing IT Incidents
Every IT incident carries the risk of harming IT's reputation. What can you do to reduce the volume of IT incidents? Here's a 5 point game-plan for ways to do it. How many of them are you doing already? Read more...Taming the Virtualization Beast
Virtualization holds a lot of promise, but the benefits are actually being undermined by change and configuration management issues like drift, integrity and sprawl. Granular Configuration Automation can help with virtualization by delivering visibility into the entire application stack, allow you to control sprawl by making powerful end-to-end environment comparisons, and identifying the deviations in virtual machines. Read more...SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
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