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May 20, 2013
Jeffrey Kaplan
THINKstrategies

A growing number of IT organizations are seeking a new generation of IT Service Management applications to help them monitor and manage their IT services from within a hybrid environment of on-premise and cloud services ...

May 16, 2013
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

With its just-launched “Ecosystem Cloud” research, EMA is trying to understand how different sized IT organizations are managing applications and other services with options for internal cloud, external cloud, hybrid, and traditional infrastructure ...

May 15, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Operational silos are often preventing organizations from realizing the promise of improved business performance and highlighted the need for a broad set of integrated cloud applications, according to Oracle's Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly report ...

May 13, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

The following are tips for how you can help a performance consultant solve your issues faster ...

May 10, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Ninety-five percent of survey participants indicated their organizations have embraced BYOD, allowing employees to connect via personal mobile devices to internal networks, according to a Network Instruments survey conducted at Interop Las Vegas 2013 ...

May 08, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Companies are reporting more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing, according to RightScale's second annual State of the Cloud survey ...

May 07, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analyzed with big data ...

May 03, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

IT managers from companies around the world are struggling with network and application performance issues as new technologies and high-bandwidth applications continue to consume network resources at an alarming rate, according to new research from Exinda and Aberdeen Group ...

May 02, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

If you’ve seen lots of wide area network diagrams you’ve probably noticed a familiar pattern emerge, one that bears a striking resemblance to the members of the arachnid family. Yep, quite a few WANs look an awful lot like a spider ,,, But in the modern world of cloud computing and distributed networks, is this really the smartest way to connect the many locations of a large and distributed enterprise? Isn’t there are smarter way to do this networking?

April 30, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The cost of routine IT issues experienced by workers and businesses has reached crisis proportions, negatively impacting employee and company productivity – and by extension shareholder value and national economic performance – to an extent not previously understood, according to a study by BMC Software and Forrester Research ...

April 29, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

Saving the day when performance unexpectedly suffers takes two things: the courage to act and preparation. The courage comes from within, but being prepared is easy — it can happen daily as part of your normal work. Here are some hints ...

April 26, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The accelerating pace of technology change is forcing IT decision-makers to adopt new strategies that keep their existing technology investments from becoming a drag on business value ...

April 19, 2013
Larry Dragich
Technology Executive

The "Butterfly Effect" theoretically describes a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings weeks before. This highlights a sensitive dependence on environmental conditions where a small change at one place (Dev Env) can result in large differences to a later state (Production) ...

April 18, 2013
Julie Craig
EMA

When trying to pin down the top factor impacting application performance, the right answer is that there is no right answer.

April 12, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The number of US IT professionals considering leaving their job due to workplace stress has declined from 67% last year to 57% in 2013, a 10 point drop in one year, according to GFI Software's second annual IT Administrator Stress Survey.

April 11, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

As an analyst focused on performance management and optimization technologies, I hear a lot of reasons for why businesses should implement these technologies. They need to improve their network and server infrastructure; they should have high visibility into activities; they need to boost connectivity between multiple offices. These are all valid reasons for using performance management technologies. But in the end it breaks down to one key reason that is behind all of these and most other performance management justifications. It’s the applications ...

April 09, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are making a resurgence, according to new research from International Data Corporation ...

April 05, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

30% of the survey respondents have adopted a converged infrastructure, according to the 2013 State of Converged Infrastructure survey conducted by Zenoss ...

April 03, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

Many years ago, the word “real” had its heyday in the world of product marketing. Plenty of commercials and advertisements would tout the “realness” of products. Luckily, in the world of application testing and performance management, there is an actual distinction between real and fake, especially when it comes to users ...

April 01, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

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 ...

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