Know the Difference™ Release Validation Solution Martin Perlin Marketing Director, Evolven RELEASE WITH CONFIDENCE Prevent production outages and ensure accuracy and consistency during releases. Demos - Click to Watch Release Validation (3:13)Use Cases (3:13)

2 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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

3 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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 STABILITYEFFICIENCYCOMPLIANCE

4 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential Unchanged Connection String Overwritten Change Problem While distributing files to multiple servers, one file does not reach one of the servers. COMMON EXAMPLES Little Changes – Big Impact One File Not Delivered Problem A connection string that defines the connectivity between application and database is not changed. Problem A change made in the production configuration prior to release is overwritten by the new release. Result Periodic issues are created that are very hard to reproduce. Result The production application points to the test database. Result A problem is created in the production environment.

5 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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 CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO

6 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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 Content 1

7 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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 2

8 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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 3

9 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential 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

10 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential BENEFITS Release with Confidence ENSURE THE RELEASE IS TRANSITIONED AS EXPECTED ASSURE INTEGRITY IN ENVIRONMENTS PROVIDE VISIBILITY INTO RELEASE CONTENT

11 | Evolven Propriety & Confidential OTHER EVOLVEN SOLUTIONS Less Risk, More Uptime and Greater Stability Release with Confidence Brings certainty and reduce risk, by assuring integrity in environments, providing visibility into the release content and ensuring that the release transitions as expected Release Validation A High Stakes Race Against Time Slash investigation time and effort by a staggering 50%, minimize system downtime and prevent incidents from impacting overall operations Incident Investigation Don't Let Your Disaster Recovery Environment Let You Down Verify consistency and integrity of your disaster recovery environment, and enable a compliant environment that won't let you down Disaster Recovery Verification Boost Your ITIL Initiatives Evolven Comparison assists in many ITIL v3 areas – helping customers achieve less risk, more uptime and greater stability. ITIL Tame the Virtualization Beast Take control of virtualization’s new configuration challenges and risk: manage drift, ensure integrity and control sprawl. Reduce outage risk and minimize downtime Virtualization LEARN MORE:

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