The APM Blog

October 15, 2012
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed my ongoing work on EMA's first Radar dedicated to Advanced Performance Analytics (APA), and the diverse options. Why is that versatility in approach so important for APA adoption?

First of all, let's look at why APA is both critical, and potentially even transformative, as well as diverse.

October 12, 2012
Larry Dragich
Technology Executive

Convincing the astute executive who is cautious in making an impetuous decision on an APM investment can prove to be challenging. The following are three points to consider when presenting APM's panoramic view of the enterprise and articulating its benefits ...

October 09, 2012
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

I realized that the industry was at an APA turning point - so I decided to seriously research what functionality was available or about to become available in the market in 2012 with an EMA Radar dedicated to APA ...

October 03, 2012
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

According to a report, Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making, the five imperatives for efficient data center energy management are ...

October 02, 2012
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

New research conducted by Forrester Consulting reveals a deepening divide between increasingly mobile workers and the enterprise IT departments that support them ...

September 24, 2012
Jeffrey Kaplan
THINKstrategies

The Cloud is not only disrupting the way in which organizations acquire and utilize computing power and business applications, it is also changing the way application development and IT operations teams view their roles and the tools they use to perform their responsibilities. Certainly, this site is clearly illustrates how the idea of APM is changing in light of the rapid adoption of Cloud solutions ...

September 18, 2012
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

According to the results of Symantec's 2012 State of the Data Center Survey, 79% of organizations report increasing complexity in the data center. The following are Symantec's recommendations that IT can try to mitigate the effects of data center complexity ...

September 12, 2012
Larry Dragich
Technology Executive

As you strive to achieve new levels of sophistication when creating performance baselines, it is important to consider how you will navigate the oscillating winds of application behavior as the numbers come in from all directions. The behavioral context of the user will highlight key threshold settings to consider as you build a framework for real-time alerting into your APM solution ...

September 07, 2012
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

Once again, EMA finds itself in a situation where how we cover critical “hot topics” becomes an exercise in acronymic disarray. In this case the culprits are Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Service Lifecycle Management (the other SLM) and the now notorious “DevOps”. The three weave a stream of sometimes complementary, sometimes conflicting insights into what is primarily a schizophrenic situation for IT organizations ...

August 21, 2012
Russell Rothstein
IT Central Station

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 ...

August 20, 2012
Jeffrey Kaplan
THINKstrategies

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 ...

August 09, 2012
Julie Craig
EMA

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 ...

August 01, 2012
Larry Dragich
Technology Executive

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 ...

July 30, 2012
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

Using the term "Chargeback" to describe what's becoming an increasingly critical and multi-dimensional service management capability has always seemed to me like it's missing the point ...

July 16, 2012
Russell Rothstein
IT Central Station

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 ...

July 12, 2012
Audrey Rasmussen

The recent cloud service outages at Amazon and Salesforce.com grabbed the industry’s attention because of the broad customer impact caused by the outages, and the high visibility of both cloud service providers ... The real value of unfortunate events like these is the opportunity they provide to learn from them ...

July 11, 2012
Jeffrey Kaplan
THINKstrategies

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 ...

July 03, 2012
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

Last Fall, I wrote two blogs on BSM Analytics: What Are They? And Why Should You Care? This Summer I’m taking that idea several giant steps forward and developing what at EMA we call a “Radar” – our equivalent I suppose to a “Magic Quadrant” – to look at advanced performance analytics in context with vendor designs, deployment successes and use-case related strengths and weaknesses ...

June 22, 2012
Russell Rothstein
IT Central Station

I was struck by the title of a recent blog post, Customer as Enemy, by Gartner Research Director Aneel Lakhani ...

June 21, 2012
Zubair Aleem
Quadnet

We have recently been involved in a mobile telecom company in the Far East. The Board's biggest issue is to grow its revenue by selling data packages. And at first glance this may not seem an obvious problem to solve using application performance management but let me explain how ...

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