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Evolven Comparison Product OverviewMartin PerlinMarketing Director, Evolven

KEEP IT TICKING

When any little mis-configuration of a single parameter poses high risk to your environment, you need Evolven Comparison for detecting threats and minimizing downtime.

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Key Capabilities (3:28) Use Cases (3:13)

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LATEST IT DEVELOPMENTS RESULT IN STRATEGIC CHALLENGES

16,000 Configuration parameters to Websphere Application Server alone…

COMPLEXITY

Virtualization and Deployment Automation result in limited

visibility into environment configuration

Significant increase in pace of change

(monthly releases, daily updates)

DYNAMICSNEW IT

INFRASTRUCTURE

LIMITED VISIBILITY INTO GRANULAR CONFIGURATION

STABILITY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE

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XYZ

New ReleaseUpgrade

Investigate

Resolve

Strategic Changes

Stabilization

Pre-productionEnvironment

Open

Incident Management

ProductionEnvironment

Over

50%of releases

entail a stabilization period during the first

days following the release

Over

75%of total incident

handling time and effort is spent on

investigation

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3

ENVIRONMENT STABILITY & KEY CHALLENGES

It doesn’t take much to cause

an incident. Any little mis-

configuration of a single

parameter can cause an

incident with major impact.

The result: incident happen

often and it’s hard to identify

their root-cause

Operational Changes(Manual & informal;

high number of changes)

1 Stabilization periods after releases

2 Number of incidents

3 Incident investigation time & effort

Key Challenges Addressed

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THE RISK OF DOWNTIME IN NUMBERS

of outage risk per month

Alinean

of downtime per year

Gartner

MTTR per medium outage

IT Process Institute

of availability and performance errors are due to faulty configurations

Enterprise Management Association

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• A Granular Configuration Automation solution that helps to obtain and maintain environment stability

• Identify and analyze changes and differences that put environment stability at risk, by:

• Comparing different environments

• Comparing current environment with its historical working snapshot or golden baseline

EVOLVEN COMPARISON OVERVIEW

• Key capabilities:• Compares the entire environment

(applications and underlying infrastructure)

• Compares environment configuration and content in-depth

• Analyzes changes and differences with focus on criticality and impact

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• Compares entire environment: applications and their underlying software infrastructure stack

• Applications• Front-end Servers• Middleware• Databases• Messaging Layer • Operating Systems• Hardware

• Applies Environment perspective, rather than a particular server or point technology

• Compares logical environment architecture (independent from physical topology )

COMPARES ENTIRE ENVIRONMENTSAN INTEGRATIVE, TOP-DOWN COMPARISON

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• All facets of the environment• Architecture • Configuration • Bill-of-materials

• Drills-down to the most granular level of configuration parameter in any configuration source• Configuration files• Registry• Database schema / stored procedures • Reference data in database

• Compares content of each environment component• Version • Size• Last modified

DELIVERS AN IN-DEPTH COMPARISON THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS…

Over

Unique Configuration Parameters Discovered To Date

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Granular Configuration (1:38)

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• Applies comparison analytics to:• Classify changes and differences by impact

(functional | performance | security | Stability etc.)

• Prioritize and highlight critical changes • Ignore insignificant changes

• Compare inherently different environments (test vs. production)

• Visualizes comparison results for faster analysis

• Leverages customizable comparison logic to ensure meaningful comparison

APPLIES COMPARISON ANALYTICSFOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST

Discovered Parameters

Detected Changes

Require Attention

Critical

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Impact Knowledge Base (1:42)

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HOW IT WORKS

HTTP/S

COLLECTION ANALYSIS PRESENTATION2 31

Collection

• On-demand / scheduled

• Piecemeal approach for low overhead

• Delta collection

LocalAgents

Remote Agents

Granular Configuration

OfflineAgents

ComparisonEngine

Impact Knowledge Base

Rule Mechanism

Noise Reduction

• Impact

• Severity

• Aggregation

• Tagging•

Normalization

Rich Browser-based Client

Visualized Information

Visibility into Environment Configuration

Repository

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2.

INCREASE ENVIRONMENT STABILITYObtain and maintain environment stability by identifying and analyzing changes and differences that put environment stability at risk

BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS

CUT INVESTIGATION TIME AND EFFORTSignificantly cut the time and effort spent on identifying and investigating environment issues and analyzing their root-cause

3. TRANSITION WITH CONFIDENCEPrevent production outages and ensure accuracy and consistency during environment transitions along the entire lifecycle and during releases

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EVOLVEN SOLUTIONSLess Risk, More Uptime and Greater Stability

Release with ConfidenceBrings certainty and reduce risk, by assuring integrity in environments, providing visibility into the release content and ensuring that the release transitions as expected.

Release ValidationA High Stakes Race Against TimeSlash investigation time and effort by a staggering 50%, minimize system downtime and prevent incidents from impacting overall operations.

Incident Investigation

Don't Let Your Disaster Recovery Environment Let You DownVerify consistency and integrity of your disaster recovery environment, and enable a compliant environment that won't let you down

Disaster Recovery VerificationBoost Your ITIL Initiatives Evolven Comparison assists in many ITIL v3 areas – helping customers achieve less risk, more uptime and greater stability.

ITIL

Tame the Virtualization Beast Take control of virtualization’s new configuration challenges and risk: manage drift, ensure integrity and control sprawl. Reduce outage risk and minimize downtime

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SCREENSHOTS

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RAPIDLY ANALYZE VISUAL COMPARISON RESULTS

Comparison Results

Map

Detected Differences Indicator

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EVALUATE IMPACT OF DETECTED DIFFERENCES

Detailed Differences

List

Impact Categories

Specific Difference Criticality and Impact

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PROVIDE TECHNICAL DETAILS TO RELEVANT SPECIALIST

Oracle DB Significant Differences

Difference Details(New tablespace was added)

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CAPTURE EXPERT EXPERIENCE FOR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION

Easily Add Organization Specific Information On

Changes To Impact Knowledgebase

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