Making Change Management Your Cloud Computing and DevOps On-Ramp

Positioning standard changes as automation on-ramps requires validating and optimizing cross-process workflow, especially in response to user requests. This is required even more with PaaS and DevOps. Success with standard changes also requires recording and evaluating usage, successes, and failures. For these reasons, your change management process should administer standard changes. Using standard changes shows opportunities for automation and reduces risks at the same time. Standard changes can free your resources for other strategic tasks as they reduce costs and improve service quality and customer satisfaction.

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CCNP Exam Prep Tips and Must Knows

In January of 2010, Cisco announced they were updating their CCNP curriculum and their certification exams through what they described as “a comprehensive process involving customers and partners from around the globe.” The revisions focused “on the competencies that are needed to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the routed and switched networks of today and are designed to be more predictive of job readiness.”

As a result, the exams became more challenging and focused on core competencies for routing, switching, and troubleshooting an enterprise network.

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VMware Resource Pools: New Test Environment

A company had a hundred traditional, physical, Windows servers in production that they wanted to migrate into a new vSphere environment. They intended to duplicate each production server to create a hundred test virtual servers, each configured identically to its production counterpart, except they would run in an isolated network.

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