Research Vice President at Leading IT Analyst Firm to Share Configuration Management Best Practices for Achieving Greater Application Availability, IT Productivity and Compliance

mValent, Inc., a provider of automated IT configuration management solutions for managing complex application infrastructure, is sponsoring a Webinar, "Conquering Complexity With Configuration Management," featuring guest speaker Ronni Colville, Research VP with Gartner.

This live presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. PT, 7 p.m. BST). Colville will share Gartner's insights on best practices for conquering complexity and avoiding unscheduled application downtime with configuration management using the appropriate mix of people, process and tools.

"Today, distributed applications built upon a multi-vendor mix of application servers, Web servers, databases and middleware offer enterprises tremendous freedom of choice and flexibility.

But the dirty little secret is the literally thousands of individual configuration settings which must be set, tuned and controlled to provide continuous availability of key applications," said Jim Hickey, mValent's VP of Marketing. "mValent Integrity enables IT teams to find the needles in the haystack that cause application infrastructure failures, test and deploy fixes immediately and automate change reporting for compliance."

"In an era where high availability and compliance are core requirements, IT administration is using configuration management to manage the complexity that threatens their company's success," said Ronni Colville, Gartner Research VP. "Configuration and change management can solve the error-prone and time consuming problems of maintaining thousands of configuration settings in the application infrastructure and Gartner believes it is essential to effective enterprise IT management."

Webinar attendees will benefit from Gartner's insights regarding how to capitalize on configuration management best practices to improve IT productivity, accelerate time-to-value and ensure higher availability along with a firm foundation for IT compliance requirements.

To register for this complimentary 1-hour webinar, visit: http://www.mvalent.com/News/webinar062806.asp