Dan Woods, the Forbes blogger and analyst wrote a nice article about servicing applications in the data center and the cloud. Dan mentions that Nolio is attacking managing the complexity of the application head on. He writes that Nolio’s product makes it possible “to rapidly configure and adapt an application or set of applications to changing circumstances. Managing such application complexity is a big part of the undifferentiated heavy lifting.”
The article can be found on Forbes.com.
A combination of forces, including skyrocketing complexity and severe economic pressure, are radically and irreversibly altering the IT landscape. New methods, new functional sourcing, and new organizational structures are needed to address this onslaught, but one theme is obvious throughout all of these approaches — a need to automate more of what you do in IT. The typical IT organization wastes a significant portion of its budget on inefficiencies that only get worse as complexity grows. Automate many of these tasks and you become leaner and more responsive to business changes. Evidence indicates an automation “tipping point” is already under way this year. All IT shops need to consider their plans for automation, including the many derivative outcomes for process refinement, staffing, tools, and the organization itself.
http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/it_operations_2009_automation_odyssey/q/id/54531/t/2
application service automation