• Rachel Chalmers, Research Director, Infrastructure Management, The 451 Group
• Daniel Nelson, Vice President of Products, Phurnace Software

With all of the automated processes and tools for building, releasing, monitoring, and optimizing web applications, there is still an automation gap that exists. When a web app is handed off from Development to IT Operations, too many times it falls through the cracks and creates miscommunication. In other instances, IT turns to a collection of homegrown scripts to roll out the apps and set up the environments. This is happening week in and week out on physical servers, in virtual images and will greatly limit the adoption of enterprise cloud computing.

In this webinar, Rachel Chalmers from the 451 Group will give an overview of the big picture and the current state of tools and infrastructure for automating data center processes. The gap that exists will be exposed and explored. Daniel Nelson from Phurnace Software will then present a solution for filling the gap – deployment automation that delivers J2EE applications and sets all of the parameters in the web app server container -- therefore reducing errors, increasing the speed of application deployment and enabling the on-ramping of apps to the Cloud.

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About Rachel Chalmers
Rachel has led the infrastructure software practice for The 451 Group since its debut in April 2000. She pioneered coverage on SOA, distributed application management, utility computing and open source software. Today she focuses on datacenter automation and server, desktop and application virtualization. She was also the lead author of many 451 Special Reports, including ''V' for Virtualization: Transforming the datacenter, driving M&A' (Dec 2006) and 'Virtualization II: Desktops and applications are next' (Jun 2007).

Rachel began covering the technology sector in 1995, when she helped launch Computer Week, later PC Week Australia, for Australian Provincial Newspapers. She also worked as Deputy Editor of the award-winning Managing Information Systems (MIS) Magazine for the Strategic Publishing Group. Rachel has a BA in English Literature from the University of Sydney and an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College, Dublin.

About Daniel Nelson
Daniel serves as Vice President, Products and is one of the original founders of the company. He is responsible for all aspects of product management including innovation and product line expansion. Daniel has over ten years of experience in the software development field, eight of which are in senior management positions in operations, project management, and quality assurance at innovative early-stage software companies such as Isochron Data, drkoop.com, the Cobalt Group, NetObjects, and SurfWatch Software. Daniel has spent the last six years working specifically with Java EE™ technologies. Daniel has a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His idea and business plan for Phurnace Software, Inc. won him the coveted Moot Corp. Award in 2006 from the University of Texas competition.