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Posted by: Jessica Gass on

Hi all, we just opened registration for an upcoming webinar we are doing with Forrester Research titled Data Center and Deployment Automation: Stop the Scripting This should be a great session so please join us on December 11th. Details below:

Please join us for this informative webinar featuring Glenn O'Donnell of world-renowned Forrester Research. He will articulate that there is a "much better way" than scripting for repetitive I.T. tasks and that many processes in the data center are now automated. Glenn will also discuss Data Center Automation market trends and share his direct experience with global IT shops in this area.

Phurnace Software VP of Products, Daniel Nelson, will follow up with a brief presentation explaining how application deployments can be automated with specialized software vs. hand-crafted scripts. Daniel will discuss auto-configuration of web application servers and how major corporations are now automating the movement of J2EE apps from dev to test to production.

Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM CST
Location: Online
Presenters: Glenn O'Donnell, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research & Daniel Nelson, Vice President of Products at Phurnace Software
Registration: Please register here to reserve your space.

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Posted by: Jessica Gass on

We are pleased to announce that Phurnace's flagship product, Phurnace Deliver™ is now directly integrated with IBM® Rational® Build Forge®. We invite you to hear all about it in our upcoming webinar - Accelerating the Software Development to Deployment Lifecycle Are you ready for one process to compile, build, deploy and configure your applications?

In this webinar, we will show you how to do that with IBM® Rational® Build Forge® and Phurnace Deliver™ products. We will explore how to use Build Forge and Deliver together to have a uniform, fully automated build and deployment process without the use of scripts or manual intervention. We will discuss how to use the combined products to check-out, build, deploy, and configure your JavaEE applications automatically. In addition, we will discuss how to preview configuration changes, keep logs of configuration and code deltas, compare configurations across servers, as well as how to manage the sometimes chaotic process of building and deploying complex enterprise applications.

Date: Friday, May 9, 2008
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM CST
Location: Online
Presenters: Leigh Williamson, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Software Architecture and Development, IBM & Daniel Nelson, Vice President of Products, Phurnace Software
Registration: Please register here to reserve your space.

We hope to see you there!

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Posted by: Larry Warnock on

I just read a blog by Aziz Gilani about “Enterprise 2.0” and his take on how enterprises will respond to the web 2.0 technologies and it’s new approaches. I think it was quite insightful and I agree with him when he comments on some of the basic assumptions by Forrester Group. Aziz writes "Having spent the past 8 years either working with CIOs or within the enterprise I can honestly say that no company will come out and say something along the lines of 'I really need some Web 2.0 in here. Where is my checkbook?' They are more likely to unwittingly stumble into Web 2.0 technology based on improvements to their end to end processes". He is dead on. Web 2.0 is not a defined category like CRM or ERP was and there isn’t one monolithic vendor pushing the concept. It is a bottom-up trend with hundreds of vendors (including free open source tools) that are making it all possible.

He also goes on to mention that configuration of the ever-expanding list of applications will continue to be a huge challenge. Again, dead on. We here at Phurnace see that every day as we talk to customers and prospects. The IT ops and software development tools today talk about “configuration and deployments”, but more often than not, they state “place current deployment process here”. That is the PROBLEM. The current process used by Global 2000 companies is error-prone, cumbersome and often laden with scripts that are fragile or in constant need of attention.

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are here indeed, but don’t lose sight of the plumbing. Deployment and configuration management should remain top of mind. Because aren’t we sort of at “Infrastructure 4.0” and it still isn’t simple?

-Larry Warnock

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