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Release Validation SolutionMartin PerlinMarketing Director, Evolven

RELEASE WITH CONFIDENCE

Prevent production outages and ensure accuracy and consistency during releases.

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Release Validation (3:13) Use Cases (3:13)

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THE RISK OF DOWNTIME IN NUMBERS

of outage risk per month

Alinean

of downtime per year

Gartner

MTTR per medium outage

IT Process Institute

of availability and performance errors are due to faulty configurations

Enterprise Management Association

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CHALLENGE “RELEASE AND PRAY”

• Evolutionary and increasing complexity of platforms

• Many moving pieces

• Need to fit together seamlessly

PLATFORM COMPLEXITY

• More distributed software systems, development process, and resources

• Makes for less visibility

• Adds to overall management challenge

• Number of releases is radically higher

• Increase of release events

• More pressure on release management teams

• Greater task to maintain stability

AGILE DEVELOPMENT

GREATER DISTRIBUTION

LIMITED VISIBILITY INTO GRANULAR CONFIGURATION

STABILITY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE

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Unchanged Connection String

Overwritten Change

ProblemWhile distributing files to multiple servers, one file does not reach one of the servers.

COMMON EXAMPLESLittle Changes – Big Impact

One File Not Delivered

ProblemA connection string that defines the connectivity between application and database is not changed.

ProblemA change made in the production configuration prior to release is overwritten by the new release.

ResultPeriodic issues are created that are very hard to reproduce.

ResultThe production application points to the test database.

ResultA problem is created in the production environment.

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• A Granular Configuration Automation solution that helps to obtain and maintain environment stability

• Identify and analyze changes and differences that put environment stability at risk, by:

• Comparing different environments

• Comparing current environment with its historical working snapshot or golden baseline

EVOLVEN COMPARISON

• Key capabilities:• Compares the entire environment

(applications and underlying infrastructure)

• Compares environment configuration and content in-depth

• Analyzes changes and differences with focus on criticality and impact

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• Gain detailed visibility of what is being released down to the most granular level of the configuration parameter

• Compare production and pre-production environments

• Ensure that pre-production sufficiently emulates production

SOLUTION

Provide Visibility Into Release Content1

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Ensure Transitions As Expected• Guarantee accurate validation to confirm that

execution adheres to the release plan

• Detect changes introduced by the release in pre-production

• Ensure that testing and release teams are aware of the exact release content

SOLUTION

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Assure Integrity In Environments• Synchronize changes introduced directly to

production with the validated release

• Compare production and pre-production

• Verify the accurate transition of release content and configuration

SOLUTION

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• Compares the entire IT environment• Compare applications and their underlying software

infrastructure stack• Including: applications, front-end servers, middleware,

databases, messaging layer and operating systems

• Delivers in-depth, granular comparison• Drill-down to the most granular level of the individual

configuration parameter from any source• Including configuration files, registry, database schema,

reference data and, stored procedures

• Applies comparison analytics• Analyze changes and differences with a focus on their criticality

and impact

SOLUTION The Power of Evolven Comparison

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BENEFITS Release with Confidence

ENSURE THE RELEASE IS TRANSITIONED AS EXPECTED

ASSURE INTEGRITY IN ENVIRONMENTS

PROVIDE VISIBILITY INTO RELEASE CONTENT

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OTHER EVOLVEN SOLUTIONSLess Risk, More Uptime and Greater Stability

Release with ConfidenceBrings certainty and reduce risk, by assuring integrity in environments, providing visibility into the release content and ensuring that the release transitions as expected

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