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Where Exactly Didn’t You Change Anything?

Managing today's IT environments is made more difficult from the dual challenge of not having enough information about the environment, and sifting through an overwhelming amount of information without knowing the criticality. How do you get the right information to keep your environment stable? Read more...

I Want Advanced Notice of Any Unplanned Outages!

Is wanting to know about unplanned outages ahead of time demanding the impossible? Not at all! There are innovative ways of taking on the unknown and managing unplanned IT outages. Read more...

5 Deadly Landmines on the Path to Virtualization

Some major hurdles remain in the area of configuration management before enterprises can fully exploit virtualization's opportunities, limiting the expected savings from moving to virtualization. Read more...

Notes From The Trenches: Obstacles and Challenges To IT Environment Stability

Are you working in the IT trenches? Do release transitions and incidents impact your environment? Hear about the real challenges encountered by a Test Environment Manager. Read more...

Size Does Matter (but not like that)

Why focus on Granular Configuration and why does it matter?  When it comes to impact and the damage that can be caused to IT environments, size matters in a much different way – small and minute. Read more...

Write The Future: What Nike Can Teach us About Environment Configuration

"The time has come for players to carve their name in history,"  the caption of the Nike ad tells us, highlighting World Cup players like Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, and Cristiano Ronaldo.  Each fantasizes about what will happen to them about whether or not they score a goal, showing us that one small action can result in unimagined success or horrible failure. Read more...

The Black Hole Between Environments

Sander Stevens discovers Evolven Comparison can fill the black hole between environments: "I discovered a tool for mapping the differences between environments, Evolven Comparison. It compares drives, configurations, settings, versions, etc. web services, databases, applications, operating systems and more." Read more...

When Your IT Environment Goes Down: Do you know what changed?

What’s the first question you ask when an incident occurs in your IT environment? Watch this funny video and learn about the Evolven difference Read more...

Can You Spot the Differences in Your IT Environments?

When considering the challenges of maintaining IT environment stability, I was reminded of spot the difference pictures. 
The concept of Granular Configuration Automation is about automatically finding the smallest changes in an environment and alerting the IT team. Read more...