Virtualization

New Survey Report on Performance Management in Transformational IT Environments
February 17, 2012

eG Innovations released the 2012 performance survey report “Performance Management in Transformational IT Environments” – Download here (registration required): www.eginnovations.com/survey2012

Monitoring Payment Application Performance Within Virtual, Cloud and Mobile Environments
February 01, 2012

Within banking and retail environments, APM is changing. This is because more and more service and payment transactions are originating from alternative payment applications based in Cloud, mobile or virtual environments. Monitoring the performance of these new services and payment applications is just as critical as traditional services that have been integrated within POS terminals, or ATMs. But gaining real-time visibility into the performance of these off-premise applications can be tricky for a number of reasons ....

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 ...

Integrated Performance Management for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure
January 09, 2012

Today's businesses increasingly use software applications that run in a wide variety of environments, everything from physical to virtual to cloud. As organizations look for ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase scalability, cloud computing and virtualization are playing a vital part in their IT strategies. However, these new technologies also present new challenges for organizations in the areas of application monitoring and application performance ...

Performance Assurance - A Key to Virtual Desktop Success
January 05, 2012

Once a decision to try out VDI is made, the primary focus is to benchmark the performance of physical desktops, model their usage, predict the virtualized user experience and based on the results, determine which desktops can be virtualized and which can't ...

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 ...

Four Steps to Virtualization Success
September 23, 2011

Recommended Webinar: Zenoss and the Aberdeen Group present best practices from companies with highly virtualized computing environments.

An Interview with BlueStripe CEO
September 22, 2011

Chris Neal, CEO of BlueStripe, talks about the next generation of Application Performance Management tools.

The Missing Link Between Virtualization and APM
August 23, 2011

Industry estimates now show enterprises collecting 300% more performance metrics yet they continue to struggle with antiquated approaches based on setting thresholds and creating rules and relationships to try to model inter-dependent behavior of all the components. And while there are a growing number of application performance management (APM) tools, they lack the analytics muscle or “intelligence” to help users make sense of all the data ...

Weathering Event Storms and Alert Floods
August 23, 2011

It seems that everyone in IT has caught “Cloud-fever” ... However, lost within the technology is the reality that someone is responsible for keeping the Cloud up and running. That someone is usually Operations personnel along with their fellow Systems, Network, Storage, and Security Engineers. The lifeline of these dedicated individuals is a unified monitoring and eventing system with a goal of providing relevant, functional, and timely alerts ...