mValent Shares WebSphere and IT Process Automation Techniques with IT Professionals and WebSphere User Group Communities
Series of Interactive Events Demonstrate IT Configuration Process Automation Methods Proven to Save IT Departments Significant Time and Money
Burlington, Mass. – November 30, 2004 – mValent, Inc., the leading provider of IT configuration process automation solutions, announced today that Rob Budas, director of technical services, will be the featured speaker at the New Jersey-Metro WebSphere User Group meeting on Monday, December 6. Budas has been designing, building and installing configuration management systems at Fortune 500 companies for more than a decade. During this interactive session, he will outline best practices and new technologies designed to automate IT processes associated with WebSphere build and deployment.
Budas’ presentation, “Find it, Fix It, Fast: Five New IT Process Automation Techniques that Ensure WebSphere Success,” will take place from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. ET at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Attendees will learn how to eliminate time-consuming, labor-intensive tasks associated with IT configuration processes and get WebSphere applications into production faster. Budas will demonstrate five new ways to employ IT configuration process automation techniques across the WebSphere application lifecycle which allow users to:
- Quickly compare configurations across environments
- Automate IT settings to simplify environment set-up and provisioning
- Promote and clone environments more rapidly
- Enforce critical configuration standards across distributed environments
- Monitor configurations, and be alerted to out-of-band changes
In addition to a technical demonstration, Budas will provide details on how one Fortune 500 company employed these techniques to reduce time to production by more than 50% by automating the tedious and error-prone process of managing configurations. This approach saved the company thousands of man-hours.
“Building a bridge from development to operations is a key to a successful WebSphere application deployment. Configuration chaos often leads to errors during this lifecycle that are not detected until the application is deployed into production, which can lead to hours of unnecessary find and fix it work,” said Stephane Gagnon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of Management and head of the NJ-Metro WebSphere User Group. “Process automation reduces errors and ensures that the tribal knowledge of an organization is captured. As the IT industry moves to utility and autonomic computing the complexities of configuration management must be built into IT processes and automated.”
IT professionals and WebSphere developers can learn the benefits of IT process automation as mValent launches a series of live webinars in December. Led by Director of Product Strategy, Chris Mills, these events will provide recommendations, demonstrations 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.
Attendees will learn how to bring applications under control quickly, isolate discrepancies and deploy changes when an application/server fails, enforce configuration standards across teams and geographic boundaries, and manage the application lifecycle, reducing critical tasks from days and hours to just minutes. mValent’s webinar series kicks off next month with a focus on the following topics:
- “Automation: Solving the WebSphere Configuration Challenge,” Wednesday, December 1, 1:00 p.m. ET
- “IT Infrastructure Configuration at the Speed of Business,” Wednesday, December 15, 1:00 p.m. ET
Registration and Event Details
To register for a webinar event click here. For WebSphere users interested in attending the December 6 WUG meeting in Newark, free registration and directions can be found at http://www.websphere.org/groups.php?groupid=26.
About mValent, Inc.
mValent, Inc. delivers software solutions that automate the building and maintenance of complex infrastructure configurations for Web-based enterprise applications throughout their entire lifecycle from development to production, across distributed and off-shore locations. The mValent Infrastructure Automation Suite™ enables IT organizations to increase efficiency by reducing configuration-related downtime and speeding applications to production. mValent is located in Burlington, Massachusetts, and has sales offices across North America. The privately held company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners. For more information, visit mValent at www.mvalent.com.
