RALEIGH, N.C. — May 26, 2009 — [PR2WEB] - Unprecedented cost pressures and the emergence of virtualization and cloud have forced CIOs to take a hard look at their IT strategies. The conclusion? IT has become far too focused on infrastructure, at the expense of the business applications that deliver real value. This is forcing a change in thinking that begins and ends with the application—transforming bloated IT into a lean, responsive service organization.

In an upcoming webinar sponsored by rPath, industry experts examine this new world, where infrastructure becomes right-sized and directly aligned to the specific need of the application. Compute capacity, OS, middleware and new application management tools are no longer general-purpose, but directly focused on the application itself, dramatically reducing wasteful spending and effort.

What: “‘Lean IT’ Begins and Ends with the Application: How to Reduce IT Costs and Risk by Shifting the Focus from Infrastructure to Applications” webinar

Who: Glenn O’Donnell, principal analyst, Forrester Research; Brett Adam, VP of engineering, rPath; Vic Nyman, chief operating officer, Bluestripe Software

When: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11:00 a.m. Pacific time)

How: Register for this free event at http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=143817&s=1&k=F81D9977D8ADAE97F1389FDDCEFAA1ED&partnerref=rpath1.

Attendees will learn:

• The guiding principles driving a leaner, application-centric approach to IT
• A cost-reduction and risk mitigation framework for understanding the impact of this transformation
• The impact and implications of this approach across the application lifecycle processes, practices, and tools—dev, test, packaging, deployment, maintenance, monitoring and management
• Achieving low-overhead visibility and control of the whole application for complete application management across traditional, virtual and cloud-based targets

All registrants will receive complementary access to the Cutter Consortium essay, “Rethinking Application Delivery in the Age of Complexity,” by Erik Troan.

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About rPath

rPath is widely recognized as a pioneer in solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise applications to traditional, virtualized and cloud-based environments. Leading ISVs and enterprises rely on rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform for rapid deployment and low-overhead management and maintenance of complex application workloads. This dramatically improves business agility and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to “do more with less” by reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery. By producing application images and virtual appliances that can run virtually anywhere, rPath frees the application from the underlying hardware, simplifying deployment, portability and promoting scalability in response to dynamic demand. rPath is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Visit www.rpath.com.

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