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Evolven Comparison Product OverviewMartin PerlinMarketing Director, Evolven
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When any little mis-configuration of a single parameter poses high risk to your environment, you need Evolven Comparison for detecting threats and minimizing downtime.
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Key Capabilities (3:28) Use Cases (3:13)
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LATEST IT DEVELOPMENTS RESULT IN STRATEGIC CHALLENGES
16,000 Configuration parameters to Websphere Application Server alone…
COMPLEXITY
Virtualization and Deployment Automation result in limited
visibility into environment configuration
Significant increase in pace of change
(monthly releases, daily updates)
DYNAMICSNEW IT
INFRASTRUCTURE
LIMITED VISIBILITY INTO GRANULAR CONFIGURATION
STABILITY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE
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XYZ
New ReleaseUpgrade
Investigate
Resolve
Strategic Changes
Stabilization
Pre-productionEnvironment
Open
Incident Management
ProductionEnvironment
Over
50%of releases
entail a stabilization period during the first
days following the release
Over
75%of total incident
handling time and effort is spent on
investigation
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ENVIRONMENT STABILITY & KEY CHALLENGES
It doesn’t take much to cause
an incident. Any little mis-
configuration of a single
parameter can cause an
incident with major impact.
The result: incident happen
often and it’s hard to identify
their root-cause
Operational Changes(Manual & informal;
high number of changes)
1 Stabilization periods after releases
2 Number of incidents
3 Incident investigation time & effort
Key Challenges Addressed
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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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• 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 OVERVIEW
• 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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• Compares entire environment: applications and their underlying software infrastructure stack
• Applications• Front-end Servers• Middleware• Databases• Messaging Layer • Operating Systems• Hardware
• Applies Environment perspective, rather than a particular server or point technology
• Compares logical environment architecture (independent from physical topology )
COMPARES ENTIRE ENVIRONMENTSAN INTEGRATIVE, TOP-DOWN COMPARISON
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• All facets of the environment• Architecture • Configuration • Bill-of-materials
• Drills-down to the most granular level of configuration parameter in any configuration source• Configuration files• Registry• Database schema / stored procedures • Reference data in database
• Compares content of each environment component• Version • Size• Last modified
DELIVERS AN IN-DEPTH COMPARISON THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS…
Over
Unique Configuration Parameters Discovered To Date
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Granular Configuration (1:38)
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• Applies comparison analytics to:• Classify changes and differences by impact
(functional | performance | security | Stability etc.)
• Prioritize and highlight critical changes • Ignore insignificant changes
• Compare inherently different environments (test vs. production)
• Visualizes comparison results for faster analysis
• Leverages customizable comparison logic to ensure meaningful comparison
APPLIES COMPARISON ANALYTICSFOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST
Discovered Parameters
Detected Changes
Require Attention
Critical
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Impact Knowledge Base (1:42)
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HOW IT WORKS
HTTP/S
COLLECTION ANALYSIS PRESENTATION2 31
Collection
• On-demand / scheduled
• Piecemeal approach for low overhead
• Delta collection
LocalAgents
Remote Agents
Granular Configuration
OfflineAgents
ComparisonEngine
Impact Knowledge Base
Rule Mechanism
Noise Reduction
• Impact
• Severity
• Aggregation
• Tagging•
Normalization
Rich Browser-based Client
Visualized Information
Visibility into Environment Configuration
Repository
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INCREASE ENVIRONMENT STABILITYObtain and maintain environment stability by identifying and analyzing changes and differences that put environment stability at risk
BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS
CUT INVESTIGATION TIME AND EFFORTSignificantly cut the time and effort spent on identifying and investigating environment issues and analyzing their root-cause
3. TRANSITION WITH CONFIDENCEPrevent production outages and ensure accuracy and consistency during environment transitions along the entire lifecycle and during releases
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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.
Release ValidationA High Stakes Race Against TimeSlash 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 DownVerify consistency and integrity of your disaster recovery environment, and enable a compliant environment that won't let you down
Disaster Recovery VerificationBoost 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
Virtualizationhttp://www.evolven.com/solutions.html LEARN MORE:
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SCREENSHOTS
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RAPIDLY ANALYZE VISUAL COMPARISON RESULTS
Comparison Results
Map
Detected Differences Indicator
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EVALUATE IMPACT OF DETECTED DIFFERENCES
Detailed Differences
List
Impact Categories
Specific Difference Criticality and Impact
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PROVIDE TECHNICAL DETAILS TO RELEVANT SPECIALIST
Oracle DB Significant Differences
Difference Details(New tablespace was added)
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CAPTURE EXPERT EXPERIENCE FOR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION
Easily Add Organization Specific Information On
Changes To Impact Knowledgebase
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