Evolven Blog

15 Years of Chronic Change and Configuration Challenges

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

News headlines have remained consistent over the last 15 years. Change and configuration management challenges are chronic and these challenges can lead to critical operational issues that can even reach the news headlines.

Hey It’s Cool to be a Gartner Cool Vendor

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

It's nice to sometimes get validation from the outside. So we're proud to announce that Gartner has recently named us as a "Cool Vendor in IT Operations Management"

Misconfiguration Strikes Again Setting Off Google Apps Outage

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Google Apps went down this week, frustrating many users and organizations. Following an investigation, Google reported that a misconfiguration was source of the outage. How can you best stay on top of the many configuration changes in your data center, and keep your production environment available?

Coming up with a new configuration and change management plan

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Change is a constant in IT operations yet has become more frequent, growing in complexity. Despite all the experience in dealing with change, doing so gracefully and efficiently is still one of the most challenging aspects of IT operations. Are you ready to effectively support change in your IT environments?

Webinar with Forrester IT Analytics Can End Change and Configuration Challenges [On-demand Webinar]

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Forrester Research's VP and Principal Analyst, Jean-Pierre Garbani and Evolven's CEO and Co-Founder, Sasha Gilenson, brought in an great crowd in with their impressive insights on how you can apply IT Analytics to your IT operations and get a handle on your Big Data problems. Learn how IT Analytics is ready to end 15 years of chronic change and configuration challengess.

Weekly IT Highlights on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps, and trends for Cloud and More

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week.

Chaos in IT Operations

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Survey reveals that the IT operations tools most organizations rely on are generally considered ineffective, and most of the processes used are labor-intensive. How can IT operations management be more effective?

POWER100 - Top IT Management Analysts

info@evolven.com (Alex Gutman and Martin Perlin) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Check out our POWER100, a handpicked list of analysts focused on IT Management. These analysts have a tremendous influence on the IT Management segment and on IT in general.

Weekly IT Highlights on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for Cloud and More

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week.

Super Bowl Outage Blamed on Configuration Change...OK. Not Really

martin@evolven.com (Martin Perlin) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Super Bowl 2013 will be long remembered for innovative commercials and a 34 minute outage, which may have turned the tide of the game itself. While unplanned or unauthorized changes to IT infrastructure configuration wasn't really responsible for this outage, this event drives home the tremendous costs and consequences of outages for an organization.