Guest Column: Non-Disruptive Qualification Of Production Software Fixes, Patches And Upgrades Now A Possibility

By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

Software fixes, patches and upgrades on production systems are a persistent, nagging challenge in today's production environments. Vendors frequently promise that by simply installing the latest revision of their code, many current issues that an application is experiencing will be resolved. The risk that organizations run is that if the latest set of code does not work as promised, it can actually make the situation worse.