‘Zero Touch Deployment – Part II – The Analyst Panel’ will be led by Forrester’s Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond. Mr. Hammond will focus on the growing need to streamline release management techniques in order to reconcile the gulf between rapid agile development practices and time-consuming release processes.

“While Agile speeds up software design and development, it doesn’t do much to speed up release and deployment – creating a flash point where frequent releases collide with much slower release practices.”
Jeffrey Hammond – ‘Five Ways to Streamline Release Management‘

Eran Sher, Nolio Co-Founder, will follow up Mr. Hammond’s analysis with a presentation showing how Zero Touch Deployment practices can resolve these challenges. Mr. Sher will demonstrate how Zero Touch Deployment can complement agile processes and ensure high-quality releases with greater visibility, predictability and higher deployment throughput. The webinar will also feature a live product demonstration.

The webinar will be staged at 11am EDT/8am PDT/4pm BST on Wednesday the 7^th of September. Registration is free!

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About the Presenters

Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey is Forrester’s Principal Analyst and in 2009 was named the top industry analyst covering development by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations. Jeffrey joined Forrester from IBM’s Rational unit, where he created award-winning application development tools, including Rational Rose/J Edition, Rose/CORBA, and Rose/PowerBuilder. Jeffrey has had a wide variety of software industry roles, including development, product management, marketing, business development, and strategy.

Eran Sher
Eran Sher is the EVP of Products and Business Development, Co-Founder and Board Member of Nolio. He is responsible for Nolio’s product vision, customer success, and development of strategic alliances. Eran is a seasoned executive and has held several senior research and development positions at PortAuthority (acquired by WebSense), Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP) and Conduct Software (acquired by Mercury Interactive).

Simply email all your questions to clare@noliosoft.com and we’ll do our best to add them to our webinar agenda. You’re free to ask any question about the zero touch deployment process – from overcoming common complexities like multi-tier applications and multiple servers to understanding the function and benefits of automation in an agile world. Our application release automation expert Benny Van de Sompele will guide you through the key aspects of Zero Touch Deployment, while carefully tailoring the program to cover all your questions and areas of interest.

In order to ensure your question will be included in the webinar, please email us before Friday, July 22, 2011.

Paving the Way for Zero Touch Deployment with Manifest Deployments will be held on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 5pm BST (GMT+1). Register online today.

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MORE ABOUT THE  WEBINAR
‘Paving the Way for Zero Touch Deployment with Manifest Deployments’ will show you how to overcome the numerous challenges and complexities of application releases: such as the perpetually increasing volume and frequency of deployments, the burden of selecting unique data resources per release, and the complications of orchestrating releases on multi-tier applications across hundreds of servers.

Learn how Manifest Deployment practices can overcome all these complexities in order to facilitate fully automated, reliable and repeatable processes that ensure agile operations and IT governance and compliance.

To make sure Agile projects run smoothly and rapidly, companies must automate all repetitive activities – such as installing new builds of complex, multi-tier, multi-server software. Automating application updates in development and QA environments accelerates the release process, increases flexibility and efficiency, and enables companies to keep the Agile promise of efficient, rapid delivery of high-quality software.

In an Agile environment, software requirements are constantly changing. The Agile promise of ensuring customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software means that software is delivered in less time, but each released build must still be fully tested. It’s obvious that in this type of environment, manual processes will fail. Manual processes can only work if your product is easy to deploy, such as a desktop application deployed on a single computer.

Automation of the Agile release process by Nolio enables companies to automate the deployment of testing labs and the updating of development environments several times a day. This allows developers and testers to always work with the latest build, even in complex application environments, which are constantly changing.

In the rapidly changing environment of the Agile release process, your business simply cannot afford slowing down or compromising product quality because of human errors, failures and downtime. Fully automating the Agile release process is the answer.

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Nolio Application Service Automation is a software platform for designing and executing automated application service workflows across the data center, enabling reliable, effective processes for the management of application change.