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Revolutionizing IT Service Delivery: One Customer's Adoption of VMware Stage Manager

VMware Stage Manager is the market's first management and automation system explicitly targeting preproduction infrastructure and processes for production-bound software systems. Stage Manager allows companies to revolutionize the process of bringing new services into production, updating old services, and managing the entire service transition process. Stage Manager allows IT to visualize, manage and automate "service transition" activities, streamlining the resources and processes required to move an IT service from one stage to another toward (and into) production. This session will, using one customer's implementation story as narrative, provide background on Stage Manager, illustrate how Stage Manager can fit into existing release management processes, and how Stage Manager can materially improve the overall Service Delivery within an IT organization.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Edward Dinel( VMware,Inc. ), David Youngberg( Navitaire )

Eddie Dinel has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. He's spent the last 6 with VMware—beginning as a system administrator, his appreciation for virtualization was honed in the trenches. Since 2007 he's been the product manager on VMware Stage Manager.

David Youngberg is part of the Configuration Management team at Navitaire, a provider of 'Software as a Service' for the airline reservations industry. Since 2006 Navitaire's virtual infrastructure has expanded to include both Lab and Stage Manager. VMware's products have greatly helped alleviate their deployment woes.