WebSphere User Group, 20th September 2011, Edinburgh.

Agile Release Automation with Workload Deployer (a.k.a. WebSphere CloudBurst)

With IBM's Workload Deployer (formerly WebSphere CloudBurst), the challenge of setting up and maintaining a complex WebSphere topology according to your conventions and standards becomes as simple as clicking a few buttons and waiting a couple of minutes. Turning this game-changing potential into a true Release Automation solution requires just one "small" issue to be taken care of: how to get your applications - the most frequently-changing component of your releases - deployed to these environments?

In this presentation, we'll discuss how the combination of on-demand middleware and enterprise-class Release Automation finally enables teams to realise end-to-end automation and truly deliver on the Agile promise of continuous delivery.

We'll identify some prerequisites and challenges on both the technical and process levels, discuss implementation options and introduce algorithm-based Release Automation and other Best Practices based on practical experience.

About the Speaker

Andrew Phillips is VP of Products for XebiaLabs, providers of the industry-leading release automation solution, Deployit. Andrew is a cloud, service delivery and automation expert and has been part of the shift to more automated application delivery platforms. Sitting on panels and driving blog and social media conversations, Andrew regularly contributes to trend-defining technology discussions.

About the Event

This year the WebSphere User Group event is being held in Edinburgh on the 20th of September 2011. The details of the venue are:
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
22-26 George Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2PQ.