(Raleigh, N.C.) Releasing .NET applications into production is complex, manual, cumbersome and excessively costly for even the best-run IT organizations. The reason? Today’s .NET production environments are diverse assemblies of scripts and manual processes cobbled together by harried operations engineers trying to cope with unstable, rapidly changing applications and exploding scale. And there are scarcely few tools and automation available to IT operations groups who deploy, configure, maintain and troubleshoot .NET applications.

In an upcoming webinar sponsored by rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, industry experts will discuss emerging approaches for automating .NET application deployment and configuration—bringing consistency, control and scale to .NET applications running in production.

What:
    “Slaying the .NET Deployment Dragon: Bringing Scalable IT Automation to Windows Application Deployment and Configuration” webinar 
    
Who:
  Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst, Forrester Research; Joe Baltimore, .NET consultant and solution provider; Shawn Edmondson, director of product management, rPath 
    
When:
  Thursday, May 20, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11:00 a.m. Pacific time) 
    
How:
  Register for this free event at http://bit.ly/bDUn87.
 

Attendees will learn:

•How to remediate a .NET deployment bottleneck through automation
•The integrated dev/ops process for fast and seamless deployment and change
•How to create a low-latency, low-overhead application release process
•Packaging .NET applications for portability across physical, virtual and cloud environments
All registrants will receive a copy of the whitepaper “Automating .NET Application Deployment and Configuration.”

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rPath automates system deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath’s innovative release automation platform is based on the industry’s only commercial version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective automation solution for rapid, low-risk and low-overhead deployment and maintenance of complex software systems. rPath dramatically improves responsiveness to business lines, reduces compliance risks, and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to significantly reduce operating costs and “do more with less.” Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, rPath has 80+ customers including some of the world’s largest enterprises and ISVs. Visit www.rpath.com.