DevOps

Rolling Out a New App? How to Avoid 3 Performance Pitfalls
May 09, 2012

New applications bring the promise of increased productivity, happier end users and better business benefits. But if the new app stalls on the network, IT managers will only be hearing about the problems the technology causes. Here are a few fixes for often overlooked issues that can crop up when IT is rolling out a new application ...

Optimizing IT for Business: The Executive Perspective
April 24, 2012

If you're an IT executive trying to take control of your environment and optimize it for business outcomes — you're likely to be getting a lot of advice from a wide range of glib sources, and very little actual support ...

Q&A: Serena Talks About DevOps
April 23, 2012

David Hurwitz, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Serena Software, discusses the challenges and advantages of DevOps ...

Is It Time for Sec-Ops?
February 23, 2012

If an attacker were bogging down your apps, how would you know? You wouldn't, unless you bridge the gap between ops and security ...

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 ...

10 Cloud Predictions for 2012
January 04, 2012

As a continuation of the APMdigest list of predictions for 2012, industry experts offer a range of predictions specifically on cloud management, and Application Performance Management in the cloud ...

12 Predictions for 2012
December 20, 2011

Industry experts from analyst and consulting firms and all the top vendors offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial predictions on how Application Performance Management and related BSM and ITSM technologies will change and impact business in 2012 ...

DevOps: 6 Steps for Improved Collaboration
December 15, 2011

Instead of throwing applications “over the fence” blindly to operations, a fluid and much more effective DevOps process inserts transparency, efficiency and ownership into the art of developing, releasing and the production use of critical applications. It also binds the two traditionally siloed teams together. The following are six critical steps IT can take to improve DevOps collaboration and ultimately the business bottom line, profitability ...

Will Your Applications Perform During the Holiday Rush?
November 22, 2011

To help retailers and businesses maximize the return on investments in these applications, the following are best practices retailers should implement when using an application performance monitoring solution in order to maintain these business-critical applications and ensure a good holiday season ...

4 “No Fail” Best Practices for Enhanced Application Diagnostics
November 11, 2011

Many things can, and will, go wrong during the development of an enterprise application. These issues underscore the importance of using test cycles to detect potential performance-robbing defects before the application is moved into production ...