rPath Eliminates the “Pain of Change” for Linux Shops

Feb. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Today's enterprise IT organizations are intimately familiar with the pain of change. Under pressure to do more with less while accelerating velocity and responsiveness, IT is finding software systems harder than ever to provision and maintain. Similarly, most IT organizations lack consistent and repeatable processes for the handoff between phases in the release lifecycle. This leads to system configuration “drift” between dev, test, staging and production phases, which often leads to failed deployments and outages.
   
In the first of two rPath webinars, attendees will learn how to take the time, cost and risk out of system provisioning and patching, allowing them to scale at near-zero marginal cost.

What:   “Automating Linux Provisioning and Patching: Scaling at Near-Zero Marginal Cost—Across Physical, Virtual or Cloud”

Who:   Jake Sorofman, VP of products and marketing, rPath; Dave Johnson, director of field engineering, rPath

When:   Wednesday, February 3, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11:00 a.m. Pacific time)


Attendees will learn:

•   How to automate and accelerate system provisioning, patching and update
•   How to create hierarchical systems that allow cost-effective customization
•   How to achieve “intelligent patching” to reduce the cost of patching and unintended consequences of change
•   How to avert downtime and outages through automated dependency discovery and validation

Automating the Release Lifecycle

In the follow-on rPath webinar, attendees will learn how system version control and release automation can transform the release and change management process from chaotic to controlled, dramatically improving cost and business responsiveness.

What:   “Automating the Release Lifecycle: Achieving Speed, Efficiency and Control in Linux System Provisioning and Maintenance”

Who:   Shawn Edmondson, director of product management, rPath; Damian Trzebunia, product marketing manager, rPath

When:   Wednesday, February 17, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11:00 a.m. Pacific time)

Attendees will learn:

•   How to standardize release processes across dev, test and production
•   Establishing a version-controlled definitive software library for IT operations
•   Automating “intelligent patching” for low-cost and predictable change
•   Automating platform updates across the lifecycle-upstream and downstream
•   How to take the cost and bureaucracy out of QA and change management

All registrants for both webinars will receive a complimentary copy of the book “The 6 Musts of Intelligent System Automation,” which includes a forward by Andi Mann of Enterprise Research Associates (EMA).

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About rPath

rPath automates system provisioning and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath’s innovative release automation platform is based on the industry’s only commercial version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective automation solution for rapid, low-risk and low-overhead deployment and maintenance of complex software systems. rPath dramatically improves responsiveness to business lines, reduces compliance risks, and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to significantly reduce operating costs and “do more with less.” Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, rPath has 80+ customers including some of the world’s largest enterprises and ISVs. Visit www.rpath.com.