Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, announced some major changes to its award-winning Orchestrated IT solution set to cater to IT shops that have embraced the DevOps movement.

Since DevOps has become a primary driver for IT organizations that deliver Revenue Applications (RevApps)–or those apps that directly transact customer activity and bring in considerable revenue to the enterprise–the changes in its Orchestrated IT solutions will ensure that business can respond to customer requests, competitive moves and changing market conditions.

With DevOps in mind, Serena delivers a series of enhancements that provide developers with self-service provisioning of environments, more cloud and virtualized infrastructure deployment targets, improved resource management and demand planning, as well as other enhancements that significantly reduce development and operations hassles.

Version version 4.5 of Serena’s Orchestrated IT solutions

Self-Service Provisioning of Environments

• A new on-demand self-service portal enables developers and QA teams to immediately spin up, and later tear down, the environments they need for application development and testing.

• Developer self-service capabilities free IT operations staff from manual provisioning so they can focus on IT infrastructure and performance improvements for the business.

Release Automation Targets Now include Windows Azure and VMware ESX/ESXi

• Target deployment environments now include cloud platforms Windows Azure, and Amazon EC2, along with leading virtualized environments VMware ESX/ ESXi.

• Serena Release Automation now includes advanced load-balancing and failover  capabilities simplifying enterprise adoption.

• Serena Release Automation is now localized into Japanese.

Hassle-Free Capturing Of Change Request Actuals

• Development managers can now easily capture the costs of specific tasks and easily link them to approved change requests. Low-impact capture and roll-up of the time spent on change request activities allows accurate assessment of the resources utilized by a project.

• Business change requests can be easily tracked from planning through to development.