In practical terms, ASA comes down to automating application deployment, maintenance and management, which will typically involve remediation and recovery processes. Or to put it even more simply, a serious helping hand for data centre employees.

Read more at http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/cwdn/2010/07/application-service-automation-a-helping-hand-in-the-data-centre.html

Full Press Release

You can read his blog post to learn more how John’s company formed the new dedicated DevOps team, and how they managed the migration from a waterfall approach to agile. John goes on to explain how DevOps effects Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Security Controls, and Corporate Hierarchy.

What’s most amazing about it is that, I personally think implementing a DevOps philosophy across the board would make compliance EASIER. All change control is AUTOMATICALLY documented. Traditional access rules aren’t an issue because no human actually logs onto servers for instance.

John’s blog post: http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-operations-team-left-behind-where.html

http://devops-abyss.blogspot.com/search/label/devops

Read the press release

The article can be found on Forbes.com.

http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/it_operations_2009_automation_odyssey/q/id/54531/t/2

Hoping to see you on Feb 24th!

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As organizations become increasingly reliant on integrated data center applications, deploying these applications is becoming a key business priority and a formidable operational challenge for IT teams. Responsibility for these applications – from managing release cycles to servicing lifecycles – is shifting to datacenter operations.

Traditionally, application release and deployment tasks have been performed manually, or semi-manually based on scripting. However, due to the complexity of multi-tier applications, the growing number of application environments and dependencies, and the sheer volume of operational tasks, manual approaches have become increasingly error-prone. As a result, application release and deployment tasks are resulting in delays, configuration errors, and release failures that undermine application reliability. Furthermore, this tedious manual work may result in increased operating and maintenance costs.

To address these challenges, a new application service model is needed to automate and orchestrate routine and emergency application tasks. These solutions should help IT operation teams execute and manage application service tasks and build reliable processes across application silos and the entire datacenter application lifecycle.

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Read the rest of this IDC White Paper on www.noliosoft.com

These scripts then need to be continually maintained and tweaked for each lab or environment. This results in very high maintenance costs and very low efficiency. Companies simply can’t afford operating this way when it comes to data center applications uptime.

This is where the Nolio Application Automation solution becomes useful.

Nolio’s solution has a unique ability to design once, then execute in multiple environments, without the need to update and customize the automation for every new or slightly different lab, environment or datacenter.

This is achieved thanks to Nolio’s patent-pending technology [link to patent post], which focuses on multi-layer, complex application components, architectures, topologies and parameters.

As a result, Nolio’s customers achieve incredibly fast implementation time. Using Nolio’s application automation tools, dozens of workflows can be automated in a few days to a few weeks, and become fully operational in production environments and in Development, QA and staging environments.