The APM Blog
Delivering services through cloud computing is a high priority objective for many IT departments, even though nearly 4 of 10 IT managers say they’ve experienced a cloud outage, according to a survey from Kelton Research, commissioned by TeamQuest Corporation ...
Whether it’s March Madness basketball in the US or Champions League soccer in Europe, wherever there’s a live game or highlight video being streamed over an enterprise network, there’s a network manager trying to understand why there’s not enough bandwidth for the company’s critical Internet applications ...
The adoption of virtualization technologies has allowed IT to become more supportive of business objectives and reduce the overall cost of their services, allowing the re-direction of those freed resources to more critical programs. C-Level managers that want more from their IT departments should understand the positive impact of virtualization technologies ...
Assessing real-world, end-user network conditions and understanding inefficient use of network resources are the top two issues facing application performance engineers in 2013, according to a new survey by Shunra Software ...
Average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers and traditional hosting providers is 7.5 hours, according to a new infographic created by RightScale ...
“Testing, 1, 2. Check check. Testing.” If you've been going to live concerts and rock shows for any length of time, chances are you've seen a roadie or band member on stage doing this common microphone check. Similar parallels can be found in the world of application performance ...
How many IT professionals does it take to fix an issue? The answer is five, working a combined average of 100 hours a week to fix unexpected IT issues, proving why IT continues to focus on efficiency ...
I promised that I'd make some recommendations for handling all the chaos that potentially occurs when you combine ecosystem interdependencies with a more consumer-driven IT operational model. I’ve decided to highlight seven key points relevant to the problem ...
The 2013 network priorities for typical midsized organizations are an exercise in pragmatic intelligence, as CIOs and senior network managers wrestle to simplify, streamline and consolidate in order to embrace the next phase of network innovation, according to Exinda ...
APM is entering into a period of intense competition of technology and strategy with a multiplicity of vendors and viewpoints. While the nomenclature used within its space has five distinct dimensions that elucidate its meaning, the very acronym of APM is in question: Application Performance - Monitoring vs. Management ...
Enterprise IT staffs spend significant time struggling to keep up with change management, as well as trying to improve overall end-user service quality. To address these issues, IT managers have implemented service modeling projects, which have helped make some progress but there is still far from universal satisfaction, according to a new survey by Neebula Systems ...
The Citrix ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report for the first quarter of 2013 highlights a need for speed on mobile apps ...
To begin a column, blog, or presentation with the idea that IT is undergoing a unique state of transformation may verge on cliché. And yet it’s still the truth. Moreover, this is a transformation that I would argue is more significant than the move to client/server off the mainframe, or even more significant than the advent of the Internet, itself. At least in terms of changing the role of IT and how IT needs to operate ...
Nearly 40% of enterprise-sized organizations in the survey have indicated that they have implemented Big Data solutions on some scale, as either a production environment or a pilot system, according to a new Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and 9sight Consulting Research report ...
As I dig out from the recent Blizzard of 2013 here in New England, the thought of being somewhere warm in the South Pacific sounds pretty good to me. But if I was a business located somewhere in the South Pacific, and I had to communicate and connect with my many global locations in a fast and reliable way, that remote location can easily become a liability ...
Gartner's recent report, Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?, shows some interesting trends that could change the face of Application Performance Management ...
In the face of an ever-evolving cyber security landscape, researchers at Radware have identified a number of new attack methods representative of today’s increasingly sophisticated and severe DDoS threat ...
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics continues to be a top CIO investment priority, and yet user surveys by Gartner, Inc. show that only 30 percent of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools. This appears to be changing as organizations invest in making analytics "invisible," and more consumable and accessible, to the nontraditional analytics user ...
97% of executives agree that delivering a great customer experience is critical to business advantage and results, and respondents estimate that the average potential revenue loss for not offering a positive, consistent and brand-relevant customer experience is 20% of annual revenue, according to Oracle's “Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era report ...
It is clear that many companies are making a mistake when it comes to ensuring that their network and application infrastructure is ready to handle the impact that virtual desktops can have on network and application performance ...
