If you were a big bank, there couldn’t be a worst time for your IT system to crash than now.

Traditional Configuration Management tools are file based and their support for continuous actions of check-in and build introduce new challenges to their design. This continuous integration and build practice, places considerably more stress and load on the CM version control and build systems.

The cloud is pushing the needs of Dev-Ops for quicker and more efficient application delivery and automated Release Management. The challenge with current, often manual scripted processes is costly. They need to overcome deployment bottlenecks, speed the update/patch process and avoid error driven disruptions.