There are a number of reasons why a release manager’s job is growing increasingly complicated. The adoption of DevOps, cloud and virtualization – all solutions which promise streamlining, agility and reduced time-to-market – has created such process complexity that it can’t conceivably be handled with manual scripting. At this point, automation isn’t only best practice, it’s a necessary practice.

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Welcome to the fourth and final installment of our blog series on the features that you’ll soon be able to enjoy in Nolio 4.5 – the Next Generation in Application Release Automation! So far we’ve covered the Nolio 4.5 Release Calendar, Approval Gates and the new KPI Dashboard for ITIL Standards.

This week, we’re going to cover the new ‘Tagging’ feature: what it is, how to use it and why you need it.

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Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon, recently shared his thoughts on choosing the right metrics for cloud computing and how to account for the return on agility. According to his post, “the return on agility delivers business value by allowing you [to] adapt rapidly, while remaining focused on your core competencies rather than distracted by operating IT infrastructure.”

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The #1 driver in moving to private cloud is speed and agility, with 73% of enterprises citing it as the most important driver, according to the Forrester report, “The Changing Cloud Agenda”. In order to ensure rapid deployments in cloud environments, you need not only automated infrastructure provisioning but also automated release operations for the application layer and effective DevOps. Developers can do more in the cloud, and infrastructure can be turned up instantly, so release operations need to keep up – release processes must be cut down to minutes and rollbacks have to be fast and flawless.

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Applications have become a key component of modern business. Users expect 24/7 availability along with continuously enhanced features. IT is adopting virtualization and cloud, agile development and release operations to achieve continuous application delivery and meet these expectations but it doesn’t always work so smoothly.

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Nolio, the Market Leader in Application Release Automation, Appoints Fred Voccola to Position of President

Nolio’s resident expert Phil Cherry shares his knowledge with readers of DevOps.com in his latest article: Approaches to Application Release Automation
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Welcome to the third installment of our blog series on the newest features that you’ll be able to enjoy in Nolio 4.5 – the Next Generation in Application Release Automation! Last week we discussed Nolio 4.5 Approval Gates, giving managers and administrators more control over releases.

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Missed last week’s live webinar on getting your SaaS application releases to the market faster? Don’t worry – you don’t have to miss out entirely!  We’ve recorded and put the entire webinar online so you can take your time and watch it whenever you get a free moment.

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In 2011 we conducted a survey on working conditions for DevOps and IT professionals and found that nearly 60% of respondents reported regularly working overtime. 31% worked overtime at least once a month and 27% reported working extra hours at least once a week!

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