APM
Imagine it's Black Friday, when all of the sudden … boom! Your most critical Web application goes awry, bringing your e-commerce operation to a screeching halt on the very day flawless performance is needed most ...
Gartner's recently released Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring is one of the best reports to read if you want to get a handle on the future of the APM industry. Jonah Kowall, Research Director, IT Operations Management at Gartner, agreed to answer the following four quick questions from APMdigest about the new report ...
I have found that with leaks, it doesn’t matter how fast you bail, leaks will still take you down! Although the kinds of leaks we see in today's organizations are different than a water leak, a JVM leak can still be just as disastrous ...
Application performance monitoring has become the focal point of IT operations and management. However, managing application performance is no longer the exclusive responsibility of the application team. Today we see network administration teams – that need to prove “it’s not the network” – also stepping up to participate in diagnosing application performance problems. To accomplish this, there are a number of network-based APM solutions on the market that target network engineers and operations teams. If you’re one of those team members, consider the following as you evaluate new solutions ...
The explosion in Big Data proves that most organizations have the monitoring part down. The challenge is what to do with all the data, once collected. How can you correlate and analyze Big Data, and make some sense out of it? This is the key to the future of APM ...
The results of the APMdigest Big Data survey are in – revealing significant increases in the growth of IT environments, volume and diversity of performance metrics, and data monitoring frequency. The survey also shows "APM-generated Big Data" as a specific use case of the broader Big Data problem, typically requiring analysis and correlation of real-time data for operational impact ...
Yelp, TripAdvisor and other review sites are making huge waves in the markets for local business, hotels, and other consumer products. It's clear that this online review revolution is expanding from the consumer world to the business world ...
Ask any IT or business manager what type of information would make their lives easier and they'll usually say benchmark data which allows them to compare their performance to their peers ...
Gartner has published a new Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
Four of today's hottest technologies represent the most powerful drivers for the evolution of Application Management software that we've seen in the last decade: Cloud, Integration, Mobile, and Big Data. Each of these topics is changing the game in terms of application delivery, and generating significant performance and availability risks along the way ...
Efficient APM is all about giving insights into the inter-dependency of all devices and showing various business transactions that are taking place to realize what an end-user is experiencing ... At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is to create systems that are robust and can give real-time visibility into events and transactions ...
Most IT managers are aware of application performance problems, but sometimes they realize the issue too late to prevent the business, customer or end user from feeling the pain too. That is why the latest trend is to make application management tools aware – aware of the infrastructure, aware of the resources needed and aware of how to best deliver applications to support business services ...
Can Event management help foster a curiosity for innovative possibilities to make application performance better? Blue-sky thinkers may not want to deal with the myriad of details on how to manage the events being generated operationally, but could learn something from this exercise ...
Bertrand Hazard, Business Strategy Lead for the SolarWinds systems management and mobile IT management product portfolios, outlines the capabilities and tools needed for remote desktop support and mobile IT management ...
Bertrand Hazard, Business Strategy Lead for the SolarWinds systems management and mobile IT management product portfolios, discusses remote desktop support and mobile IT management, and the related challenges ...
CIOs are ultimately responsible for ensuring that IT investments are closely aligned with strategic business objectives ...
There are many proposed approaches to APM. One approach is collecting performance data from the application itself while the other is collecting application data from packet data by sniffing on the network. Fetching metrics from the application process itself yields valuable data such as memory, buffers, cache and other such application data which cannot be obtained from the wire. On the other hand, performance metrics from the network itself gives a good breakdown of response times and delays from the different components of the entire service ...
In too many of today’s companies, people are still focused on their own stack of information and data, without the benefit of seeing how they all impact each other ... If companies were to move away from the silo approach, they would see that the collection, aggregation and correlation of application, server, log file and process data, along with key business metrics and performance data, would give everyone the same powerful view of the business ...
During a recent family to trip to Orlando, it made me realize how lucky the crew of the Enterprise was to travel at warp speed and the use of transporters to get around, getting from point A to point B in almost no time. Compared to banking just a decade ago, the current trends in low level latency middleware environments has the same objectives ...
Why is it acceptable to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, on a week or even year's worth of integration or fire-fighting, spent by your best engineers, on things that should be automated, more intuitive or just plane simpler to take on? Just because they’re working hard, doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting valuable assets on the opportunity cost of time that could otherwise be spent on more innovative and revenue generating activities. I’ve compiled a list of ten factors in IT operations that help speed up that time to value ...
Application Operations is an emerging technology management team that was formed to address a whole new set of performance management issues being driven by virtualization and the Cloud, increasing application diversity, and the agile development of custom applications ...
The recent outage of the Amazon EC2 cloud led to disruption of service for Netflix, Instagram and other major site and applications. Last year after the first major Amazon outage I posted on this site a blog post: After Amazon: 5 Ways BSM Can Protect You from the Next Cloud Outage. The points are worth repeating since we see that cloud computing is not a guarantee of better application performance ...
The real obstacle to application optimization isn't technological, it is organizational. Application performance depends on two fundamental elements: application design and network configuration. Unfortunately, in too many organizations these two elements are responsibility of two separate and sometimes competing groups -- the application development and network operations teams ...
With the emergence of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the Internet is experiencing a major upgrade that will change the way it communicates. While invisible to most Internet users, IPv6 means added complexity to the way browsers and devices connect to the Internet and how services operate and are accessed by users. This complexity has the potential to slow down and disrupt critical services that businesses and individuals rely on every day ...
For an enterprise IT organization that is building a private cloud and virtualizing applications, the following are 3 key challenges to evaluate when looking for an application performance management solution ...
