Comments on: Applications cause the downtime? http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/10/16/applications-cause-the-downtime/ Tracking Blades, virtualization and grid Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Pendry http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/10/16/applications-cause-the-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-24604 Joe Pendry Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:43:39 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/10/16/applications-cause-the-downtime/#comment-24604 Another good study, Martin...keep them coming. Would agree that applications - and more specifically changes to applications - contribute significantly to downtime. Certain "change management maturity" activities – automating change management, regularly scheduling changes, adopting change management processes like ITIL etc. – can help companies limit the problems that changes cause in production. As complexity grows in IT Operations, this situation will become more challenging. The research my company did on this subject can be found at www.stacksafe.com/research Another good study, Martin…keep them coming.

Would agree that applications – and more specifically changes to applications – contribute significantly to downtime. Certain “change management maturity” activities – automating change management, regularly scheduling changes, adopting change management processes like ITIL etc. – can help companies limit the problems that changes cause in production. As complexity grows in IT Operations, this situation will become more challenging.

The research my company did on this subject can be found at http://www.stacksafe.com/research

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