APM

7 APM Requirements for Cloud-Readiness
February 21, 2012

It’s no secret that the cloud has forever changed IT. IT is evolving into more distributed, modular, complex architectures. Moving services to the cloud to take advantage of increased agility at a lower cost means taking some risks as there are greater complexities to manage and applications may or may not be in your control. Cloud has essentially changed the game for what’s needed in an enterprise APM solution for today’s modern businesses ...

Why Your APM Solutions May Not Be “Cloud-Ready”
February 21, 2012

Public Cloud customers are finding that, while Cloud services are easy to consume, they are not as easy to govern and manage. This abstraction layer means that traditional APM solutions may not be as useful as they once were. As a result, many CIOs are finding it necessary to reevaluate management portfolios for Cloud-readiness ...

New Survey Report on Performance Management in Transformational IT Environments
February 17, 2012

eG Innovations released the 2012 performance survey report “Performance Management in Transformational IT Environments” – Download here (registration required): www.eginnovations.com/survey2012

Big IT Data = Big Application Management Challenge
February 14, 2012

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 ...

What Makes a Mobile Site Performance Winner?
February 13, 2012

On February 2, Compuware released its annual Best of the Web 2011 report recognizing the year’s website and mobile site performance leaders across a variety of industries. What made these companies winners, and how are they able to deliver fast, reliable mobile site experiences that set them apart from their competition?

APM SLAs in the Cloud: Is There a Rainbow on the Horizon?
February 06, 2012

At a recent trade show, there was an interesting question from the audience about how to hold their Cloud provider responsible for slow performance of their applications. How to avoid the next catastrophic outage and ensure they had SLAs to penalize the cloud provider for sloppy application performance ...

Monitoring Payment Application Performance Within Virtual, Cloud and Mobile Environments
February 01, 2012

Within banking and retail environments, APM is changing. This is because more and more service and payment transactions are originating from alternative payment applications based in Cloud, mobile or virtual environments. Monitoring the performance of these new services and payment applications is just as critical as traditional services that have been integrated within POS terminals, or ATMs. But gaining real-time visibility into the performance of these off-premise applications can be tricky for a number of reasons ....

Hot Topics from the Gartner Data Center Conference
January 30, 2012

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 ...

Top IT Management Trends of 2012
January 30, 2012

At the beginning of this month, EMA analysts were asked for their predictions about what 2012 might bring. Responses spanned management solutions across applications, systems, network, security, services, assets, desktops, and mobile devices, as well as business intelligence and content management ...

Q&A Part One: IBM Talks About APM
January 26, 2012

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 ...