Air date:
Thurs., Nov. 1, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT

DevOps: IT’s Automation Revolution

Do you keep finding that the manual processes in provisioning and release aren’t cutting it? If so, you are not alone. With the faster pace of change and growing complexity of applications and infrastructure, IT’s needs are surpassing what it could traditionally accomplish.

DevOps is an emerging name for the collection of techniques we are adopting to meet this challenge and close the gap. While the DevOps movement is relatively young, many of its approaches are rooted in existing best practices.

Release managers, deployment professionals and development teams who want to learn more about DevOps techniques are invited to join guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc., Principal Analyst Glenn O’Donnell and UrbanCode Lead Consultant Eric Minick for this webinar where they will address:

What’s driving this revolution
An introduction to DevOps
Success stories from companies that have done DevOps

When: Thurs., Nov. 1, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT

Glenn O’Donnell, Forrester Principal Analyst

Glenn O’Donnell serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He is widely regarded as a top thought leader in IT service management, IT operations, and the broader social implications of technology evolution. Glenn’s specialties are in data center automation and operational excellence. He is the co-author of The CMDB Imperative, a book on CMDB best practices.

Eric Minick, UrbanCode Lead Consultant

Eric Minick is a lead consultant at UrbanCode where he helps customers get the most out of their build, deploy and release processes. He has eight years of automation experience throughout the application life-cycle in roles as a developer, test automation engineer, and support engineer. Eric has been at the forefront of Continuous Integration for 8+ years and has worked on three generations of UrbanCode’s products.

About UrbanCode

UrbanCode enables organizations to deliver software to production servers faster (physical, virtual, or cloud); resulting in decreased time to market, and accelerated pace of innovation. uDeploy, our Deployment Automation product, establishes repeatable, error-free, scalable application deployment processes, and provides visibility into what version is where. uBuild, our Build Management product, establishes repeatable and traceable build processes for large organizations with hundreds or thousands of developers, and provides visibility into organizational best practices; allowing development teams to scale while maintaining quality. Our approach is to harness the innate capabilities of computers to handle repetitive tasks in an error-free manner, while providing valuable information that can be leveraged by people to engage in critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving.