Mapping Apps to Avoid Disaster
To prevent lost downtime, or worse, many firms such as Wachovia are turning to the burgeoning field of application dependency mapping (ADM), an infrastructure snapshot that can provide the crucial insight for change management—not only for major moves, but even for patches and upgrades to existing infrastructure.Without Tidewater’s discovery and mapping, there was “a high likelihood that errors would be made. The resulting downtime would [have been] unpleasant and mission costly,” says Jim Houghton, who was head of utility product management of Wachovia’s corporate and investment bank at the time of the transition.
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