ReleaseNow with ServiceNow
Using ServiceNow? Learn how you can achieve continuous application deployments with the latest ServiceNow and Nolio ASAP integration, minimizing application release windows from days and hours to just minutes!
Serena Talks DevOps
Nolio’s partner Serena recently sat down with APMdigest to discuss the challenges and advantages of DevOps. Keep reading to see what David Hurwitz, Senior VP of Marketing, has to say.
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Nolio’s Release Management Solutions on Gartner’s Shortlist
Will Nolio’s release management tools play an increasingly important function due to the rising convergence between development and operations?
According to the world’s largest information technology research and advisory company – the answer is yes! Read More
Nolio Selected as Release Management Cool Vendor by Gartner Research
The decision to include Nolio’s ASAP in the Cool Vendor category was taken this month by a Gartner analyst team panel made up of Ronni Colville, Kris Brittain and Donna Scott. The analysts recommended that buyers should evaluate release automation software to reduce manual efforts and scripts for deploying application software across and within ALM environments.
Five Ways To Streamline Release Management
Forrester’s release management survey confirms that IT leaders are frustrated with slow software delivery, including dissatisfaction with the release management process. While Agile speeds software design and development, it doesn’t do much to speed up release and deployment — creating a flash point where frequent releases collide with slower release practices. This is motivating development organizations to work with their peers in operations to streamline release management. They are achieving this by improving prebuild processes, expanding release management throughput, optimizing their release pipelines, designing software for rapid change, and creating common release portals. Any one of these practices will bring improvement, so pick one, start small, measure the results, and then expand to more in time.
Five Predictions for 2011 by Jez Humble
Jez has written a piece over at the CM Crossroads site with five predictions for 2011 –
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Implementing ITIL Change and Release Management
The Business-Focused, Best-Practice Guide to Succeeding with ITIL Change and Release Management
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) can help organizations streamline and integrate their operations, dramatically improving efficiency and delivering greater business value. For the first time, there’s a comprehensive best-practice guide to succeeding with two of the most crucial and challenging parts of ITIL: change and release management.
A sample chapter is provided courtesy of IBM Press
Leading IBM ITIL expert and author Larry Klosterboer shares solid expertise gained from real implementations across multiple industries. He helps you decide where to invest, avoid ITIL pitfalls, and build successful, long-term processes that deliver real return on investment. You’ll find detailed guidance on each process, integrated into a comprehensive roadmap for planning, implementation, and operation-a roadmap available nowhere else.
451 Market Insight Report: Nolio moves from automation to management of devops
Analyst: Rachel Chalmers
Date: 16 Dec 2010
Nolio has released version 3.0 of its Application Service Automation Platform (ASAP), with new measurement, audit and control features designed to elevate the product from automation tool to management suite. A new DevOps Manager exposes useful data to senior executives responsible for the application deployment process. With this dashboard, executives should be able to answer questions like: How long does it take to release an application, on average? How many deployments succeed? How many fail? How long does it take to perform a rollback? Which applications need the most remediation? Which users executed tasks in production? Which users touched a given application?
Benefits of ITIL Release Management
The focus of ITIL Release Management is the protection of the live environment and its services through the use of formal procedures and checks. Working in conjunction with ITIL Change and Configuration Management, Release Management is employed for:
- Large, major or critical Changes
- Bundling or batching related sets of Changes into manageable-sized units
ITIL Release Management’s goal is to protect the live or production environment services through use of formal procedures and checks.
