69% of IT Professionals Surveyed: Current Configuration Management Ineffective for Running the Modern Data Center and Cloud

JERSEY CITY, NJ, May 26, 2011 (Press-News.org) Evolven Software, supplier of the breakthrough change and configuration analytics solution for the modern data center and cloud, announced today survey results showing that a majority of IT professionals feel that current approaches to configuration management are ineffective for running modern data centers and cloud operations.

The global survey was carried out by Evolven during a recent event conducted with Forrester Research, and the findings reflects a growing frustration by IT Operations management with the current approaches for managing configurations in increasingly complex and dynamic data centers.

The surveyed audience included CIOs, IT Directors, Configuration Managers, Release Managers, System Operations Architects, and Change Managers from many Global 2000 organizations.

The attendees responded to the question: Is your existing configuration management approach effective for facing the new challenges of the modern data center and cloud? The participants could choose from the following response options with the results being:
35% Not effective, clearly a new approach is needed
24% Needs major improvement, chiefly in dynamics and analytics
10% Questionable, current approaches are rigid and painful to implement
31% Effective, but there are still a few bumps in the road
0% Very effective, they were designed for the modern data center

"These reactions underscore that today achieving effective Configuration Management is one of IT's biggest challenges," says Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven, "The rapid growth of virtualization and clouds demand more support for dynamic, constantly changing environment configurations. Given, the active state of the IT landscape, and from what we have seen from our customers, it is not surprising that the survey results were inclined so strongly towards the need for better handling of configurations in the modern data center and cloud."

Evolven has taken a new approach to IT Operations and redefined configuration management for the modern data center and cloud. Evolven's groundbreaking Configuration Analytics solution takes on the dynamics and complexity of the modern data center and cloud, in a way that was never available before.

IT Operations and Infrastructure teams use Evolven to validatechanges and releases to prevent downtime, monitorand detect configuration drift to avert incidents, investigateand identify incident root-cause to cut mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) , and auditany changes made to improve processes and meet compliance requirements.

Evolven delivers configuration management solutions for the modern data center and cloud, helping enterprises to significantly reduce their risk of downtime and achieve greater stability.
Evolven's solutions apply breakthrough change and configuration analytics to dramatically improve the performance and availability of IT environments. Using Evolven solutions allows companies to significantly lower operating costs, reduce the risk of production outages and cut environment incident investigation time & effort.

Evolven is a privately held, venture backed company headquartered in the U.S., with presence in the US, Europe and the Middle East and a development center in Israel. Evolven's executive team and advisory board include world-renowned experts from the world of IT management and enterprise software.

Evolven's investors are leading venture capital firms Pitango Venture Capital and Index Ventures.
Learn more about Evolven at http://www.evolven.com

Media Contact
Martin Perlin, Evolven
martin@evolven.com