60% of application failures are configuration related.
So whether you are deploying 'home-grown', web, SaaS, or cloud applications, bringing applications into production is introducing formidable operational challenges. Consider the following scenarios:
Scenario 1: When your deployment processes are manual or script driven
You've received a new set of application packages from your development team. Now what?
You need to deploy those packages and perform requisite service operations to turn them into running services:
- Assemble members of Development, QA and Production for application handover
- Push code, data and content across all of the relevant locations
- Perform multi-step, sequenced unpacking/installations across application tiers
- Edit configuration files for each environment
Once you have completed deployment you face additional complex tasks...
- Coordinate restarts across application tiers in the correct order.
- Make additional configuration changes and updates across distributed, live data center environments.
- Check the status of the integrated applications and validate configurations.
It's difficult enough to coordinate application service activities for a single application, in a simple data center environment. Multiply this by the volume of changes and frequency, applications tiers and environments along with distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure (including physical, virtual and cloud servers) and you get a problem that quickly becomes highly complex, error prone and unmanageable.
Nolio Application Service Automation simplifies and mitigates the risk of application deployment failure, turning complex, error prone manual operations into automated reliable and error-free processes.
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Scenario 2: When your development, QA and production environments are different
- You need to test application deployment configurations across different environments.
- Executing change across each environment independently is time consuming and error prone, with routine tasks requiring that you start from scratch with every update.
- Tracking application changes and managing application drift over time is nearly impossible.
Nolio gives you the ability to model multi-tier application tasks, based on the application logic, including sequenced actions and tasks and then map and execute these processes across any environment -including development, QA or production - all at once.
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Scenario 3: When your operation teams are bogged down by repetitive near same configuration and service tasks
- You cannot complete your weekly application updates within your scheduled maintenance window, or reduce your forced downtime.
- You cannot retain knowledge within operations, or build repeatable processes, for both routine and emergency operations, including roll-back and recovery.
- You cannot economically scale operation team workloads to grow your applications, or data centers.
Nolio automates routine and emergency tasks, cutting the time and cost of deploying and maintaining applications by up to 75%. This translates into accelerated time to release, immediate productivity gains and the ability to scale operational tasks without increasing workloads.
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Scenario 4: You cannot centrally manage applications, enforce best practices or audit operations to meet regulatory compliance
- You have no visibility into who has made application changes and where, to control drift across your data center.
- You need the ability to easily report and audit application change to meet industry and regulatory compliance
- You need to centrally manage distributed service operations across all users handling applications.
Nolio gives you the ability to centrally coordinate and control the execution of application workflows and changes across your data center, to manage application handover across silos, report and audit application operations and build actionable best practices across all users responsible for bringing applications into production.
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