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K n o w t h e D i ff e r e n c e ™
Release Validation SolutionMartin PerlinMarketing Director, Evolven
RELEASE WITH CONFIDENCE
Prevent production outages and ensure accuracy and consistency during releases.
Demos - Click to Watch
Release Validation (3:13) Use Cases (3:13)
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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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CHALLENGE “RELEASE AND PRAY”
• Evolutionary and increasing complexity of platforms
• Many moving pieces
• Need to fit together seamlessly
PLATFORM COMPLEXITY
• More distributed software systems, development process, and resources
• Makes for less visibility
• Adds to overall management challenge
• Number of releases is radically higher
• Increase of release events
• More pressure on release management teams
• Greater task to maintain stability
AGILE DEVELOPMENT
GREATER DISTRIBUTION
LIMITED VISIBILITY INTO GRANULAR CONFIGURATION
STABILITY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE
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Unchanged Connection String
Overwritten Change
ProblemWhile distributing files to multiple servers, one file does not reach one of the servers.
COMMON EXAMPLESLittle Changes – Big Impact
One File Not Delivered
ProblemA connection string that defines the connectivity between application and database is not changed.
ProblemA change made in the production configuration prior to release is overwritten by the new release.
ResultPeriodic issues are created that are very hard to reproduce.
ResultThe production application points to the test database.
ResultA problem is created in the production environment.
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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
• 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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• Gain detailed visibility of what is being released down to the most granular level of the configuration parameter
• Compare production and pre-production environments
• Ensure that pre-production sufficiently emulates production
SOLUTION
Provide Visibility Into Release Content1
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Ensure Transitions As Expected• Guarantee accurate validation to confirm that
execution adheres to the release plan
• Detect changes introduced by the release in pre-production
• Ensure that testing and release teams are aware of the exact release content
SOLUTION
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Assure Integrity In Environments• Synchronize changes introduced directly to
production with the validated release
• Compare production and pre-production
• Verify the accurate transition of release content and configuration
SOLUTION
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• Compares the entire IT environment• Compare applications and their underlying software
infrastructure stack• Including: applications, front-end servers, middleware,
databases, messaging layer and operating systems
• Delivers in-depth, granular comparison• Drill-down to the most granular level of the individual
configuration parameter from any source• Including configuration files, registry, database schema,
reference data and, stored procedures
• Applies comparison analytics• Analyze changes and differences with a focus on their criticality
and impact
SOLUTION The Power of Evolven Comparison
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BENEFITS Release with Confidence
ENSURE THE RELEASE IS TRANSITIONED AS EXPECTED
ASSURE INTEGRITY IN ENVIRONMENTS
PROVIDE VISIBILITY INTO RELEASE CONTENT
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OTHER 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
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