SaaS
However you define APM, the whole performance management landscape is on the cusp of a number of important changes that will alter the game in 2014. Here are some predictions around key areas you can expect to see change ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Industry experts - from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors - offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial and contradictory predictions on how APM will change and impact business in 2013 ...
Adoption of software as a service (SaaS) has grown dramatically among users of enterprise software solutions, but it varies widely within markets, according to Gartner, Inc. A recent Gartner survey showed 71 percent of organizations have been using SaaS for less than three years.
Patrick Moran, Vice President of Marketing for New Relic, discusses APM SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), one of the hottest topics in Application Performance Management right now ...
Despite all the industry talk about APM SaaS, the majority of enterprises responding to a CA Technologies sponsored survey are taking a cautious approach to its adoption today ...
What does the future of Application Monitoring hold? To answer the question we must ask: what does the future hold for the app? To be honest it's not about the application, our attention should be on the business process. How will business processes evolve?
Michael Azoff, Principal Analyst at Ovum, talks about APM hot topics including Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, Mobile and DevOps ...
Hosting providers should be looking way beyond just a good discount from the vendors in order to survive ...
In our recent survey, if there was a single clear delineation between AWS and Rackspace, both vying for cloud attention, Rackspace stands out as the pioneer in selling support services while AWS pioneered the hourly billing rate for raw storage and compute power. Putting it into perspective, there is a growing desire from hosting providers to emulate the superior management and support services that are being used in mid-size and large enterprises ...
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 ...
Jeffrey Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and Founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, talks about Cloud management, APM and his upcoming Cloud Channel Summit ...
Avoiding the use of software as a service (SaaS) for critical or sensitive data remains a significant form of risk control for many organizations, according to Gartner, Inc. But those that do use SaaS for such data are more likely to use it for sensitive data than for mission-critical data.
Gartner has published a new Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
Jonah Kowall, Research Director in Gartner's IT Operations Research group, discusses SaaS APM - the new requirement for the 2012 Magic Quadrant for APM ...
There is a trend towards Cloud and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offerings for Service Management tools ... One of the key advantages outlined by the tools vendors is the ability to get the software up and running in a matter of days or weeks, which is definitely attractive to those who normally experience projects which take 6-12 months to do this ...
SaaS has received a lot of success and adoption in the past five years, unfortunately less in APM than other markets. With Cloud computing gaining momentum you're likely to see SaaS APM adoption increase significantly as more applications are deployed to the Cloud. Here's the top 5 advantages that SaaS-based APM can offer ...
Today, as an IT manager, you have the option to not deploy performance management on-premise but to get this as a service delivered from the cloud ...
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 ...
Why oh why do people seem to have such a preoccupation with cloud and Software as a service (SaaS), and why are they asking whether ITSM and ITIL are capable of working in these environments?
Julie Craig, Research Director at EMA, outlines the 5 factors of cloud that impact decision making on management tools ...
