Cloud

February 11, 2014

Development teams love change. They're incented to push boundaries and respond to shifting circumstances. Operations teams not so much. Their job is to control change and mitigate risk so it doesn't undermine the stability and reliability of business ...

February 06, 2014

Consumerization of IT, namely the emergence of BYOx (where x is anything from apps, data to the latest mobile devices), is having a significant impact on business operations and the strategic implementation of emerging technologies, according to the New IT Survey conducted by SolarWinds ...

February 03, 2014

Organizations are creating, accessing and using more sources and types of information than ever before. This trend, combined with the increasing need to understand how data is being used within a company, is driving the need for chief data officers (CDOs). Gartner predicts that by 2015, 25 percent of large global organizations will have appointed CDOs ...

January 30, 2014

Moving your applications to the cloud has undeniable benefits. But when things go wrong, it's hard to know where the bottlenecks are. Here are four best practices to optimize your application performance monitoring ...

January 24, 2014

The talk around the IT water cooler is that integration costs are on track to become higher than application costs within five years, with integration becoming more complex and burdensome. But like all predictions, what can we believe? Should we start to prepare for the worst? And, most important of all, who's the one to blame for this problem?

January 22, 2014

Julie Craig, Research Director for Application Management at EMA, talks about the challenges of APM in the Cloud ...

January 21, 2014

Julie Craig, Research Director for Application Management at EMA, talks about research from her new report: Application Performance Management in the Age of Hybrid Cloud: Ten Key Findings ...

January 16, 2014

CA Technologies announced its top five IT predictions for 2014 ...

January 15, 2014

AppDynamics announced our 2014 predictions for the enterprise software market ...

January 02, 2014

The key 2014 trends in web and mobile performance: a new faster Internet – with optimized protocols ...

December 30, 2013

Experts at ExtraHop offer the following predictions for IT in 2014 ...

December 17, 2013

In APMdigest's highly popular and well-respected annual list of APM predictions, industry experts - from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors - offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial predictions on how Application Performance Management (APM) will evolve and impact business in 2014 ...

December 09, 2013

No topic in IT today is hotter than cloud computing. And I find it interesting how the rapid adoption of cloud platforms has led to a reinvention of how many IT applications and services work at a fairly deep level — certainly including those in my own area of APM. Multi-tenancy, for instance, is a concept that has really come into vogue with the advent of public cloud platforms ...

November 15, 2013

Every day, compelling new applications, built to support the needs of enterprises, are turning up in the cloud. While the reward is great, because these apps are mission-critical and deployed to your entire workforce, so is the risk. If your cloud-based CRM system is unavailable, the sales team is certainly impacted, but if email, IP and/or VoIP communications are unavailable, the entire organization takes a productivity hit. To address this risk, IT must take a fresh look at how they monitor and manage these services ...

November 11, 2013

Organizations gaining competitive advantage through high cloud adoption are reporting almost double the revenue growth and nearly 2.5 times higher gross profit growth than peer companies that are more cautious about cloud computing, according to a recent IBM survey conducted with more than 800 business decision makers and users worldwide.

October 04, 2013

Nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017, according to Gartner ...

September 06, 2013

Although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending. Gartner highlights three key factors that will significantly impact enterprise cloud use in the near to midterm future ...

September 03, 2013

A survey by Research in Action determined cloud computing to be the top IT investment priority for 2013. No surprises there, as clearly these professionals are being driven by the promised benefits of greater agility, flexibility and time-to-value. What is surprising is the fact that 79 percent of these professionals expressed concern over the hidden costs of cloud computing, with poor end-user experience resonating as the biggest management worry ...

August 07, 2013

THINKstrategies conducted a recent survey to determine how Cloud Computing alternatives are affecting the IT Service and Client Management needs of organizations. While the vast majority of respondents are deploying on-premise Service and Client Management solutions, the tide is shifting to cloud-based implementations. And this raises big questions about the pros and cons of multi-tenant vs. single tenant cloud architectures that are increasingly relied upon to deliver Service and Client Management solutions ranging from running help desks and change management requests, to incident response processes, service catalogs and, in some cases, ITIL best practices ...

August 06, 2013

It is only with the advent of the cloud and the leveraging of hypervisor that a truly revolutionary approach to monitoring is enabled, to provide a much simpler and more elegant solution ...

July 12, 2013

The allure of public clouds springs from advantages like improved service scalability, reduced operational costs, and an increased focus on business goals and strategies instead of the technology needed to pursue them. However, there is a cost to that flexibility and economy, in reduced visibility of application and infrastructure health ...

July 09, 2013

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 ...

June 07, 2013

Cloud computing is exceeding expectations, according to The TechInsights Report 2013: Cloud Succeeds. Now What? commissioned by CA Technologies ...

June 06, 2013

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 04, 2013

I recently spoke with Rachel Chalmers, Research Vice President - Infrastructure Management at 451 Research, about being cost-conscious while managing Amazon Web Services (AWS). Chalmers said you can save a ton of money by introducing cloud resources, and then you can spend it by having to rebuild or go back to fix mistakes ...

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