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CA Technologies is positioned as a leader in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Application Performance Management Solution, 2014–15. This report on APM evaluates ten of the leading APM solutions in the market and compares them side by side. Ovum notes CA APM’s long history as an enterprise grade solution, and that its latest release “ensures CA APM's place as a leading APM solution.” Download this free report to learn more.

The viability of your brand largely rests on the quality of your customers’ experience with your applications—often the most important experiences they’ll have when doing business with you. Successful CIOs and technology leaders will know how to deliver the application experience users expect by taking ownership of the application experience, obtaining key performance information needed to share—or democratize—that data with all relevant teams and business leaders. These technology leaders recognize that great performance is driven when all teams understand what they need to know to act.

Dr. Jim Metzler, Webtorials Distinguished Research Fellow, has released the initial installment of the 2014 edition of his Application and Service Delivery Handbook, featuring detailed research and analysis. In this first of four installments, he lays the groundwork to ensure that the applications and services that an enterprise uses: can be effectively managed; exhibit acceptable performance; incorporate appropriate levels of security; and are cost effective. This year's handbook also focuses on three key second generation challenges including mobility and BYOD, virtualization, and cloud computing. 

The DevOps methodology unites software development (Dev) and production and operations (Ops) into a single, integrated, and continuous process.While Dev focuses on innovation and speed, the mandate to Ops is about stability, control, and predictability. Left to themselves, Dev and Ops struggle to talk to each other, much less collaborate. Is the ongoing battle between Development and Operations holding you back? Here are five signs you may need to bring them together with DevOps.

Society is racing forward at breakneck speed. At the same time, the world is becoming more complicated and relationships between companies and their customers are no longer linear, but complex. Coping with these changes is a corporate culture issue for many companies, an issue that will need to be addressed if companies and government organizations want to keep up. For big, established organizations, the road ahead won’t be easy.

Now more than ever DevOps, a process which helps foster collaboration between the teams that create and test applications with those that maintain them in production environments, is poised for widespread adoption across IT organizations worldwide. New research commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted between May and July 2013 by Vanson Bourne shows many organizations are achieving significant and measurable benefits from DevOps—anywhere from between 17% to 23% improvement in key business metrics such as revenue, time-to-market and new customer acquisition.

Do you know why companies are using DevOps to speed the rollout of new apps and services? Smart businesses know.

Complex, repetitive, slow and prone to errors. It’s also essential in today’s world. DevOps is gaining traction among IT leaders seeking quality, agility and faster time to market. Validate the importance of accelerating the delivery of new applications and services to market, and to understand organizations’ current ability to meet this objective.

Today’s agile organizations pose operations teams with a tremendous challenge: to deploy new releases to production immediately after development and testing is completed. To ensure that applications are deployed successfully, an automatic and transparent process is required. We refer to this process as Zero Touch Deployment™. This article reviews two approaches to Zero Touch Deployment—a script-based solution and a release automation platform. The article discusses how each can solve the key technological and organizational challenges faced by agile organizations when they set out to implement an automatic deployment system. The article begins by recounting the business and technological contexts that drive agile organizations to seek deployment automation solutions.

There has been growing buzz about DevOps. DevOps is a methodology that unites the often separate functions of software development (Dev) and production and operations (Ops) into a single, integrated, and continuous process. DevOps is about breaking down the barriers between Dev and Ops. It leverages people, processes, and technology to stimulate collaboration and innovation across the entire software development and release process. Dev and Ops should always be part of an integrated process, but that’s not always as easy as it sounds. You may be stuck in what we call “Dysfunction Junction.” Read this eBooklet to learn about the pitfalls of DevOps, how you can avoid them, and how to get started on your DevOps journey.