• Management and Automation
  • Orchestration and Automation
  • Provisioning
  • Laboratory Management
  • Release Management

Release Management

Managing the process of releasing new software into production environments

Release managers work on pre-production infrastructure, consisting of servers dedicated to supporting staging or release management of application workloads through staging areas into production.

Features of Release Management solutions

• Self-service provisioning portal - enables on demand provisioning of complete multi-tier environments in just minutes
• Image library management - specifically the ability to manage multi-tier environments as a single unit
• LiveLink - feature that promotes the capturing and sharing of system configurations between members of the team on real time basis

IT operations administrators have added responsibilities to create and release the delivery of applications as services to the end user and are often working with infrastructure engineers to build releases while minimising downtime risk. Typical problems faced are the large number of deployed machine configurations, teams not able to collaborate on testing and acceptance of the service through a single interface.

Benefits of introducing Release Management solutions:

• Eliminates delays and therefore accelerates project completion
• Ease of use
• Pristine copies of target environments every time
• Improves software quality; facilitates troubleshooting and accelerates time to market
• Eliminates time-consuming manual tasks; frees up time for value-add work
• Reduces server sprawl and VM sprawl in lab environments
• Lowers storage consumption; minimises fire-drills
• Enables the rapid adoption of virtualisation without having to re-train users in vCenter