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Nolio, the leading innovator of Application Service Automation solutions, today announced key management additions as the application-centric automation market accelerates.
Doron Gerstel, co-founder and former President and CEO of Zend Technologies, joins Nolio as Chief Executive Officer. Nolio also today announced the appointment of Yuval Scarlat, formerly Senior Vice President of Products for Mercury Interactive, acquired by HP (NASDAQ: HPQ), to Chairman of the Board.
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What happens when you get a service unavailable alert but all your server monitors show normal state? How can you respond to such an alert?
When discussing this with one of Nolio’s customers, a large online bank operation, they told me that in the past, in cases of a ’service unreachable’ alert with green servers, they didn’t really know what the source of the problem was. The first thing they would do when troubleshooting this type of problems is look into their monitoring system and check if there are problematic servers, but in most cases the issue is in the application layer, where some services or processes are stalled.
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In a recent article titled “Ready to automate data center management?” James Urquhart points out that “few organizations had made the decision to systematically automate” data center management, and adds,”If you don’t have an automation pilot in your budget for this fiscal year, I would seriously recommend planning one for the next cycle. I would also strongly recommend that system administrators begin to think about how they would automate their jobs.”
I couldn’t agree more and would like to stress the importance of application service automation.
Modern data centers are very different from traditional data centers. The main challenge of modern data centers is not primarily the number of servers, it is the complexity of the multi-tier applications that run on those servers.
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