Gartner’s Ronni Colville, Research VP, shares Gartner’s latest insights and actionable advice on how Configuration Management and Data Center Automation tools can cure many of the headaches caused by virtual sprawl.
Read the second issue of the mValent Analyst Series newsletter featuring an exclusive interview with Forrester Research Senior Analyst Evelyn Hubbert. In this issue, Ms. Hubbert shares Forrester's latest insights and recommendations on ensuring success with your organization's configuration management initiatives.
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mValent White Paper:
Application Infrastructure Management Best Practices
This white paper defines and explains seven best practices that very effective IT organizations use to manage application infrastructures. Apply the ones that make sense for your organization.
mValent White Paper:
Improving Key Metrics for Application Infrastructure Management
This white paper describes key metrics in application infrastructure management and how to analyze and improve them, specifically using capabilities in mValent Integrity.
Enterprise Management Associates White Paper:
The CMDB Landscape: Market Directions, Vendor Solutions and IT Deployments
In this white paper, EMA examines the configuration management database (CMDB) market and assesses the advantages and pitfalls of the industry movement towards this next-generation architecture.
IDC White Paper:
Automating IT Configuration Management to Deliver a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
In this white paper, IDC Research Director Sandra Rogers provides recommendations and best practices for increasing the speed and rate at which applications get to production by easing and automating tasks related to initial set-up, maintenance, and replication of highly complex infrastructure configurations.
Summit Strategies White Paper:
Configuration Management Dynamically Links IT to Business
In this white paper, vice president Mary Johnston Turner provides an assessment of configuration management products being offered by new and established vendors. Application configuration automation is an emerging IT management software category aiming to reduce cost and improve performance by linking applications and infrastructure across the full breadth and depth of the IT design, implementation and operating lifecycle.
Maximizing Your Configuration Management ROI Recorded October 10, 2007
Gartner’s Ronni Colville, Research VP, shares Gartner's latest insights and actionable advice for achieving success in this area and maximizing your configuration management ROI.
Retail Case Study: Driving Revenue and Efficiencies in Retail IT
Recorded September 26, 2007
A former Macy's Systems & Technology (Macy's, Bloomingdales, etc.) IT manager discusses how Macy's successfully created competitive advantage through automated application configuration, change and release management.
Overcome Configuration Complexity with mValent Integrity
Recorded July 18, 2007
Get a firsthand look at how you can leverage mValent Integrity to capture the current state of configuration settings for IT assets, monitor them for authorized and unauthorized changes, and automate processes for provisioning changes and setting up new environments throughout the application lifecycle – from development, testing and through production.
Overcoming Configuration Complexity: Top Strategies & Real-World Successes
Recorded June 26, 2007
According to Forrester, Global 2000 businesses average more than 1,000 applications and configuration issues cause 44% of downtime. The criticality of applications to the business is on the rise and so is IT complexity. As a result, effective configuration management is an essential IT competency that IT teams cannot afford to ignore. Watch a one-hour Webinar featuring Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President with Forrester Research, where he outlines strategies to achieve success with this foundational management discipline and shares real-world successes in this area from Fortune 500 companies.
mValent Integrity/Quest Foglight Release Manager Integration Demonstration
Recorded May 16, 2007
Get a firsthand look at how you can leverage the combination of mValent Integrity and Quest Foglight Release Manager to manage configuration, change and release management processes across the application lifecycle.
IT Operations' Three Tenors: Change, Configuration & Release Management
Recorded April 25, 2007
Change, configuration and release management are essential processes for IT teams to meet their key goals of ensuring high availability for applications, consistent delivery of business services and the ability to meet regulatory compliance requirements. Watch a one-hour Webinar featuring Gartner’s Ronni Colville, Research Vice President, as she shares Gartner's latest insights and actionable advice on on establishing process, role and tool requirements to ensure success with change, configuration & release management.
mValent Integrity/Mercury Universal CMDB Integration Demonstration
Recorded January 24, 2007
Get a firsthand look at how you can leverage the combination of mValent Integrity and the Mercury Universal CMDB to optimize your configuration management and CMDB success.
Roadmap For Achieving Configuration Management & CMDB Success
Recorded January 9, 2007
Effective configuration management and/or development of a configuration management database (CMDB) have risen to the top of “to do” lists of leading IT organizations. Watch a one-hour Webinar featuring Gartner’s Ronni Colville, Research Vice President, as she shares Gartner's latest insights and actionable advice on achieving configuration management and CMDB success.
Bring Order to IT Chaos with mValent Integrity v4
Recorded October 19, 2006
View a demonstration of mValent Integrity v4 and see firsthand how mValent software enables your IT team to automate manual processes for configuration, change and release management of application infrastructure as well as deliver valuable input and actionable information for your configuration management database (CMDB) initiative.
Configuration Management – Bringing Order to IT Chaos
Recorded September 27, 2006
According to Forrester, Global 2000 companies average more than 1,000 applications and application configuration issues are the cause of 44% of downtime - making effective configuration management a critical IT competency that leading organizations cannot afford to ignore. Join us for a one-hour interactive Webinar featuring Forrester Research VP Jean-Pierre Garbani as he shares Forrester's latest insights and actionable advice on leveraging configuration management for IT success.
Conquer Configuration Management Complexity with mValent Integrity v4
Recorded July 19, 2006
A demonstration of mValent Integrity v4, our solution for automating configuration/change management and IT audit reporting of application infrastructure, and learn how we can help your organization automate manual processes for configuration, change and release management of infrastructure supporting business applications.
Conquering Complexity with Configuration Management Recorded June 28, 2006
In an era where high availability and compliance are core requirements, progressive IT staffs use configuration management to manage the complexity that threatens their ability to serve business customers. Join us for a one-hour interactive Webinar featuring Ronni Colville, Research Vice President with Gartner, as she shares Gartner's advice on best practices for conquering complexity with configuration management.
Top Five Strategies to Ensure Continuous IT Compliance
Recorded May 3, 2006
If you’re involved with supporting your company’s enterprise application infrastructure, compliance is likely a top-of-mind issue for you. While regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are driving compliance needs for business applications, these regulations also drive critical control objectives for the infrastructure supporting these business applications. mValent will discuss five key strategies that enable IT to demonstrate control and change process compliance over complex application infrastructure to meet the demands of internal and external business needs.
Accelerate Your WebLogic Deployments with Automation Tools
Recorded March 22, 2006
This previously recorded event discusses best practices and demonstrates tools to automate application configuration management. We'll show you how WebLogic users can achieve faster time to value, higher satisfaction and increased revenue.
Extreme Makeover: WebSphere Edition
Recorded January 26, 2006
Listen to this previously recorded webinar modeled after the popular "makeover" show. Extreme Makeover: WebSphere Edition is 45-minute event that will give you five "tricks of the trade" to make over your WebSphere application configurations.
Fear Factor: WebSphere Edition
Recorded November 17, 2005
Listen to this previously recorded webinar with a spoof on the popular Fear Factor "reality" show. Fear Factor: WebSphere Edition is 45-minute event that will demonstrate how you can tackle the five scariest things associated with WebSphere application configuration. No bungee jumping or bug eating necessary!
Five Best Practices for Managing WAS Application Configurations
Recorded July 26, 2005
IT departments are under enormous pressure to successfully and flawlessly deploy WebSphere applications. There are procedures IT departments must perform, and perform well, to effectively and efficiently configure WebSphere applications. During this 45-minute webinar, Bill Thornburg, VP, Product Development, demonstrates five best practices--critical to successful WebSphere application configurations and deployments--that can be automated through new technology.
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Read the second issue of the mValent Analyst Series newsletter featuring an exclusive interview with Forrester Research Senior Analyst Evelyn Hubbert. In this issue, Ms. Hubbert shares Forrester's latest insights and recommendations on ensuring success with your organization's configuration management initiatives.
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