Sramana Mitra: I think the bottom line is they are not architecturally in a place to handle a dynamic environment. Sasha Gilenson: A truly dynamic environment, yes. Let’s say there is an urgent issue with a particular application. The system administrator runs and accesses the machine to fix the issue; because it is so critical,
Sramana Mitra: At the same time, that raised quite a bit of funding in that area. Is that correct? Sasha Gilenson: Yes. Recently Puppet [Labs], an infrastructure as a code company, which automates infrastructure measurement popped up. They just raised $50 million from VMware. There are many other companies in this space. With the increasing pace
Sramana Mitra: You said you started your company in 2007. Given that we are in 2013, obviously this big data trend that we are in the midst of. The IT industry operates in buzzwords, and for whatever reason right now big data is a buzzword. In 2007 that was not the case at all. I
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do another couple of use cases of your technology. Sasha Gilenson: Another use case we have is about proactive prevention of problems. One of the frequent activities in IT and the development of agile methods is change transition – the release of a change into a productive environment. When you have a
Sramana Mitra: Why is this a big data issue? Sasha Gilenson: Because when you look at the IT and the amounts of operational information that IT is creating, generic incubation is just one of the aspects that we started to cover because the space was not addressed by any other solution. If you look at
Sramana Mitra: So you provide visibility and diagnostics on where the issue might be? Sasha Gilenson: Yes, and these are related to the changes that happen in the environment and its configuration content. There is a certain angle of diagnostic tools. We bring the angle of the environment, configuration, and changes that happened to the
Sasha Gilenson is the CEO and co-founder of Evolven, a leading company in IT Operations Analytics. Prior to Evolven, Sasha spent 13 years at Mercury Interactive, participating in the establishing of Mercury’s SaaS and BTO strategy. He studied at the London Business School and has more than 15 years of experience in IT operations. In