1. T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
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DECEMBER 20 Most Promising HP Solution Providers
HP’s service offerings span most facets of an IT
Evolven Software
recognized by magazine as
20 MOST PROMISING
An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of providing
HP Solutions and impacting the market place.
Pradeep Shankar
Editor-in-Chief
2014
HP
SOLUTION PROVIDERS
Company: Description:
Evolven Software A provider of
IT Operations
Analytics(ITOA) to
accelerate incident
resolution, avoid
harmful and risky
changes, and
assess and optimize
IT Operations
performance
Key Person:
Sasha Gilenson
CEO
environment, including data centers, storage
systems, enterprise software, communications
networks, desktop computers, mobile devices and
printers. Also, their Strategic IT Advisory Services offers
guidance for cloud computing, enterprise architecture and
service management. With these increasing products and
services, CIOs find it extremely challenging to navigate the
complex and fragmented HP landscape while looking for
services that best suit them. This is where a host of partner
companies help them with selection, implementation,
and support. Their technology services support portfolio,
address the organizations’ needs to take full advantage of
technology to drive businesses.
Partnering with HP, the solution providers offer
business and technology consulting services to
organizations and government agencies worldwide.
They focus on helping organizations improve their IT
operations and transition to new technologies, such
as virtualization, cloud computing and converged
infrastructure.
To help CTOs, CIOs, and CEOs find the right HP
Solution Provider for their enterprises, our selection
panel has evaluated hundreds of HP Solution Providers
that own innovative technologies, methodologies
and outstanding customer service in this space. They
support CIOs to build their IT strategy to align directly
with that of the business and innovate in their industries
with business services powered by technology.
In our selection, we looked at the vendor’s
capability to fulfill the burning need of cost-effective
and flexible solutions to that add value to the complex
HP landscape. We present to you CIO Review’s 20 Most
Promising HP Solution Providers, 2014.
Website:
evolven.com
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2. 20 MOST PROMISING
20 MOST PROMISING
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Today, IT is required to be more
agile, supporting dynamic business
demands as a partner of business.
At the same time, IT is expected to
maintain maximum stability, performance,
and security for business systems. “While
these IT demands constantly grow, they
still need to be addressed with existing staff
resources. So unfortunately, enterprise IT
is still focused very much on firefighting
to keep the systems running properly,”
says Sasha Gilenson, CEO, Evolven
Software. “IT needs to be able to automate
its services and their management to avoid
issues and have far more control over the
environment without hindering flexibility.
IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) plays a
major role in addressing these challenges,”
he adds.
Established in 2007, Evolven Software
applies a new ITOA approach to accelerate
incident resolution, avoid harmful and
risky changes, and assess and optimize
IT Operations performance. Evolven
complements HP’s broad range product
portfolio with its ITOA technology that
adds a new strategic dimension as well
as helps organizations unlock the power
of the data collected by HP’s tools. “HP’s
rich portfolio touches every aspect of IT
management and collects huge amount of
data,” asserts Gilenson. “Our approach is
to apply powerful solutions to turn this
overwhelming IT environment data into
actionable information.”
Using the ITOA approach, Evolven
allows IT Operations managers to
know exactly what has changed
in their environments and
when, to maintain environment
consistency, validate changes,
and eliminate configuration
drift. “Our ITOA solution is
based on a firm belief that
20 MOST PROMISING
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
SOLUTIONS 2014
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‘change’ is the major source of instability,
performance issues, and security threats in
IT,” says Gilenson. “Part of our solution
is a knowledgebase that calculates
impact and severity of changes in various
configurations attributes. We apply
analytics on everything that matters—the
entire environment stack down to the most
granular level,” he adds. “This generates
more accurate and more powerful
insights.”
Bringing a complete visibility
approach—from physical and virtual
data centers to hybrid cloud—is what sets
Evolven ahead of the competition. “We do
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it in a manageable way that does not drown
clients in exhaustive information,” states
Gilenson. “We observe adjacent markets
so we can learn from them and look for
ideas in different areas. We are constantly
looking for how to deliver more value and
more efficiency while deepening our core
capabilities such as domain expertise,”
states Gilenson.
Since inception, Evolven has been
helping organizations with its best-of-breed
services. For instance, one client needed
to execute a full production environment
fallback into disaster recovery. Their
production systems needed to run on
the disaster recovery infrastructure for a
couple of weeks. First there was concern
about moving all their transactions to an
infrastructure that had never been active,
but then they used Evolven’s ITOA
solution to compare the production and
disaster recovery environments, and
analyze their consistency. In a very short
period of time, this helped the client
discover critical differences and make
successful corrections to their disaster
recovery environment, making it ready for
use.
Moving forward, Evolven aims to
expand its services and global foot print.
“At Evolven, we believe that ITOA is
a hot space and there is still a lot to do
as this space matures. We expect to see
more intelligence in the data center and
cloud. Within several years multiple
vertical analytics solutions will merge
into a unified analytics layer serving
as a ‘brain’ for automated IT
environments. Being a pioneer
and innovator of the ITOA
space, our goal is to provide
this brain,” concludes
Gilenson.
Evolven Software
Pioneering the ITOA Space
Sasha Gilenson
2014
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