Operational complexity in virtualized, scale-out, and cloud environments and composite Web-based applications will drive demand for automated analytic performance management and optimization tools that can quickly discover, filter, correlate, remediate, and ideally prevent performance and availability slowdowns, outages, and other service-interrupting incidents ...

Last month I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. This year, the hot topic was not only cloud computing but seems there were a lot of discussions around DevOps and analytics. Other topics of interest included Application Performance Monitoring (APM), End-user Experience (EUE), Business Transaction Management (BTM), Big Data and many more around IT operations. Take a peek at the few bits and bites I picked up ...

Today’s world is becoming increasingly dominated by data and information that is unstructured, and comes in a heterogeneous amalgam of formats and arrives in escalating volumes and speeds. The challenge is how to rapidly develop and provide access to useful information and insight based on that data ...

End-user behavior learning technology provides the business with a view into how each end-user interacts with their online business services to ensure a superior user experience. The business learns about user experiences based on past online activity, and quickly and proactively adjusts to meet expected levels of service regardless of the conditions or variables ...