Large application services such as online banking, global reservation systems, and wireless messaging generate massive amounts of data which Gartner estimates has increased by 300% during the past four years ... It’s no wonder we are generating more data, but less actionable intelligence than ever before. The growing complexity in applications is outpacing enterprises’ ability to understand their behavior ...

At BlueStripe, we surveyed 126 IT operations and production support executives at enterprise-level organizations. We were interested about the range of applications they’re responsible for, the most pressing challenges, and if their management tools were effective enough for them to do their jobs. The executives responded with a clear “no” on the latter inquiry. Here’s a summary of the survey results ...

Matthew Ellis, IBM VP of Service Availability and Performance, discusses APM including cost concerns, APM in the cloud, and Gartner's 5 dimensions of APM ...

Once a decision to try out VDI is made, the primary focus is to benchmark the performance of physical desktops, model their usage, predict the virtualized user experience and based on the results, determine which desktops can be virtualized and which can't ...