The APM Blog

July 27, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

SolarWinds has released a new video in celebration of the sysadmin ...

July 25, 2013
Gabriel Lowy
TechTonics

With the proliferation of composite applications for cloud and mobility, monitoring individual components of the application delivery chain is no longer an effective way to assure user experience. IT organizations must evolve toward a holistic, more collaborative methodology based on a service-delivery principle that is more aligned with corporate strategy ...

July 24, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

At some point you will have done your analysis, found the root of the performance problem, presented your results, and now it is time to figure out how to fix the problem. Like there are many paths to the top of a mountain, there are often many possible solutions to a given problem ...

July 23, 2013
Mike Cuppett
Author of "DevOps, DBAs, and DbaaS"

While defining strategies for cloud, mobile, social and big data, IT leaders must not drop the ball in retaining customers that are now experiencing your company’s current applications. Don’t let cumulative degradation chase off your customers ...

July 22, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

IT teams have limited confidence in gaining application visibility, with over 34% of IT professionals expecting to see a shooting star before seeing real-time application activity, according to a survey by ExtraHop Networks ...

July 17, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The increase in mobile device usage among consumers has resulted in network challenges for businesses of all types and sizes. Here are five immediate actions that companies can take to prepare their websites and applications for mobile device access ...

July 11, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

Capacity planning is the simple science of scaling the observed system so you can see if you have enough resources to handle the projected peak load, but it only works for resources you know about ...

July 09, 2013
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

The EMA report Ecosystem Cloud: Managing and Optimizing IT Services Across the Full Cloud Mosaic is complete. In mid May I wrote a column making predictions about the results, which were just then beginning to come in. I made eleven bets about the results. Here is the list as I assessed it ...

July 01, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

When employees can safely and quickly choose the best technologies the world has to offer, businesses are empowered to create, communicate, collaborate, innovate, execute, compete and win, according to a new global survey from Blue Coat Systems ...

June 26, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

The history of application performance management (APM) starts with the World Wide Web ...

June 17, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

When the load on any application climbs to a certain point the slowest part of the transaction path will limit application throughput. Response time will increase. Users will be unhappy ... When the load is high, all transactions race through the well provisioned parts of the system only to find an ever-increasing delay as they wait for slowest part of the transaction path. There are lots of potential bottleneck points in any transaction path, but only one at a time is your current bottleneck ...

June 14, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Exponential growth in the use of smart devices has led to significant and increased demand for bandwidth across 84 per cent of organizations surveyed globally, according to new research commissioned by BT and Cisco ...

June 12, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Nearly 40 percent of line of business (LOB) and IT executives surveyed indicated “operational resilience” systems signify business and IT services that are always on and available, according to survey results published in an IDC White Paper, sponsored by SunGard Availability Services, Lack of Operational Resilience Will Undermine Enterprise Competitiveness: A Strategy for Availability ...

June 06, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Cloud solutions accelerate business results, according to Collaborating in the Cloud, a Forbes Insights, Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, accelerate business results and enhance innovation and collaboration across borders and functions ...

June 03, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Customer experience (CX) is a more powerful customer loyalty driver than price-value perception, specifically for banks and retailers, according to new Forrester research ...

May 30, 2013
Gabriel Lowy
TechTonics

Assuring user experience should be the top priority among Big Data projects for enterprises and cloud service providers. Megatrends such as mobile, cloud and social drive the need for application awareness via better visibility and control. With survey after survey showing availability as the number one priority, spending on user experience assurance, also known as APM, is expected to remain strong. However, only solutions that cover the entire application delivery chain from the end-user experience perspective will suffice ...

May 29, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

I have never seen a case where a running application sees its response times drop as more load is added ...

May 27, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

Every year when I attend the major networking and interoperability conference known as Interop, I attempt to figure out what the theme of the show is. Sometimes that can be a tough job, but not at the recent Interop Las Vegas. Clearly, Software Defined Networking (or SDN) was the king of this year’s Interop ...

May 24, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

One-third of respondents identified server virtualization as the top monitoring challenge within their datacenter, closely followed by managing mobile devices, according to a survey released by Network Instruments at Interop Las Vegas 2013 ...

May 22, 2013
Larry Dragich
Technology Executive

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Synthetic monitoring (active monitoring) helps reduce key blind spots for critical applications. We just experienced a production issue on a fully instrumented critical business application that first appeared nebulous ...

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