A framework for risk assessment based on analysis of historical information of workflow execution in IT systems

JA Wickboldt, LA Bianchin, RC Lunardi, LZ Granville… - Computer Networks, 2011 - Elsevier
Services provided by modern organizations are usually designed, deployed, and supported
by large-scale IT infrastructures. In order to obtain the best performance out of these …

Compensation-based vs. convergent deployment automation for services operated in the cloud

J Wettinger, U Breitenbücher, F Leymann - Service-Oriented Computing …, 2014 - Springer
Leading paradigms to develop and operate applications such as continuous delivery,
configuration management, and the merge of development and operations (DevOps) are the …

Efficient verification of IT change operations or: How we could have prevented Amazon's cloud outage

S Hagen, M Seibold, A Kemper - 2012 IEEE Network …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On April 21st, 2011, a major outage occurred in Amazon's US east coast data center which
led to significant disruptions on customer services. The root cause of the outage was an IT …

ChangeLedge: Change design and planning in networked systems based on reuse of knowledge and automation

WL da Costa Cordeiro, GS Machado, FG Andreis… - Computer Networks, 2009 - Elsevier
Proper management of Information Technology (IT) resources and services has become
imperative for the success of modern organizations. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) …

A solution to support risk analysis on IT change management

JA Wickboldt, GS Machado… - 2009 IFIP/IEEE …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing necessity of organizations in using technologies to support to their operations
implies that managing IT resources became a mission-critical issue for the health of the …

Improving IT change management processes with automated risk assessment

J Araujo Wickboldt, L Armando Bianchin… - … Management of Systems …, 2009 - Springer
The rational management of IT infrastructures is a goal of modern organizations that aim to
deliver high quality services to their customers in an affordable way. Since changes are …

A solution for identifying the root cause of problems in it change management

RL dos Santos, JA Wickboldt… - 12th IFIP/IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reuse of knowledge acquired by operators to diagnose failures in Information
Technology (IT) infrastructures has potential to decrease the recurrence of failures and …

Facing the unpredictable: Automated adaption of IT change plans for unpredictable management domains

S Hagen, A Kemper - 2010 International Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to IT infrastructure and services to …

On strategies for planning the assignment of human resources to it change activities

RC Lunardi, FG Andreis… - 2010 IEEE Network …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning is a fundamental sub-process of the overarching Information Technology (IT)
change management process, proposed by the Information Technology Infrastructure …

A runtime constraint-aware solution for automated refinement of IT change plans

WL da Costa Cordeiro, GS Machado… - Managing Large-Scale …, 2008 - Springer
Change design is one of the key steps within the IT change management process and
involves defining the set of activities required for the implementation of a change. Despite its …