Feature Articles

March 01, 2024

As organizations continue to navigate the complexities of the digital era, which has been marked by exponential advancements in AI and technology, the strategic deployment of modern, practical applications has become indispensable for sustaining competitive advantage and realizing business goals. The Info-Tech Research Group report, Applications Priorities 2024, explores the following five initiatives for emerging and leading-edge technologies and practices that can enable IT and applications leaders to optimize their application portfolio and improve on capabilities needed to meet the ambitions of their organizations ...

February 16, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 3, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) discusses network security with Chris Steffen, VP of Research Covering Information Security, Risk, and Compliance Management at EMA ...

February 09, 2024

With a focus on GenAI, industry experts offer predictions on how AI will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024. Part 5, the final installment in this series, covers the advantages AI will deliver: Generative AI will become increasingly important for resolving complicated data integration challenges, essentially providing a natural-language intermediary between data endpoints ...

February 08, 2024

With a focus on GenAI, industry experts offer predictions on how AI will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024. Part 4 covers the challenges of AI: In the short term, the rapid development and adoption of AI tools and products leveraging AI services will lead to an increase in biased outputs ...

February 07, 2024

With a focus on GenAI, industry experts offer predictions on how AI will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024. Part 3 covers the technologies that will drive AI: The question on every leader's mind in 2023 was - how soon will I see the return on my AI investment? The answer may lie in quantum computing ...

February 06, 2024

With a focus on GenAI, industry experts offer predictions on how AI will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024. Part 2 covers the stakeholders that will drive AI: We'll see the emergence of new C-suite roles, like Chief AI Officer, who will partner with CIOs to ensure AI adoption continues to grow and emerging regulations are adhered to across the enterprise ...

February 05, 2024

GenAI was inescapable in 2023. So where do we go from here? What is GenAI's role in 2024 and beyond? To answer this question, APMdigest is introducing a totally new predictions series — With a focus on GenAI, industry experts offer predictions on how AI will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024 ...

February 01, 2024

Consumer expectations for digital experience are escalating, putting increased pressure on brand owners to optimize application performance and security, according to the Cisco App Attention Index. The study also revealed the emergence of a new breed of application user that is more empowered, sophisticated, and demanding in its use of digital services ...

January 25, 2024

Industry experts offer predictions on how DataOps will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024: Analytics will be all encompassing in 2024 as we become reliant on data for everything from everyday business research such as inventory and purchasing to predictive analytics that allow businesses to see into the future ...

January 24, 2024

Industry experts offer predictions on how DataOps will evolve and impact IT and business in 2024: Data observability will become mandatory as organizations seek to drive smarter automation and faster decision-making in 2024. As the volume of data has continued to double every two years, organizations are urgently seeking to ingest and analyze it faster and at a greater scale. However, the cost and risk of poor-quality data is greater than ever ...

January 19, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 2, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses how remote work impacts network management ...

January 11, 2024

By 2028, cloud computing will shift from being a technology disruptor to becoming a necessary component for maintaining business competitiveness, according to Gartner ...

January 10, 2024

APMdigest is following up the list of 2024 Application Performance Management Predictions with predictions from industry experts about how the cloud will evolve in 2024. Part 2 covers cloud costs, the edge and more ...

January 09, 2024

APMdigest is following up the list of 2024 Application Performance Management Predictions with predictions from industry experts about how the cloud will evolve in 2024. Part 1 covers hybrid, multi-, public and private cloud ...

January 05, 2024

Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact development and the business in 2024 ...

December 15, 2023

APMdigest and leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are partnering to bring you MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT, a new podcast focused on network management. In Episode 1, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses 2024 network management trends ...

December 14, 2023

Part 8 covers NetOps and NPM: The Internet is your network. Companies will be forced to look at new sets of tools as LANs become less important than understanding the broader distributed networks across the web ...

December 13, 2023

Part 7 covers the end-user experience: Observability teams will realize the importance of understanding user experience versus application metrics. The fact that a database call has a slightly longer wait time will become less critical than if the application is not meeting the user's expectations of performance. This will directly link resilience and performance back to business impact as a poor user experience can lead to lost revenue ...

December 12, 2023

Part 6 covers AIOps and ITSM: Just what AIOps means will increasingly become a source of confusion, as market definitions seek to confine a diversity of solutions which vary in scope, design point, use case, complexity, and value into a single consistent box ...

December 11, 2023

Part 5 covers AIOps: In 2024, AIOps will become even more of a defining force for all of IT, including ITSM, development, and IT executives — as well as for business stakeholders ...

December 07, 2023

Part 4 covers OpenTelemetry: Next year, we're going to see more embrace of OpenTelemetry across the entire industry — opening up the future of instrumentation ...

December 06, 2023

Part 3 covers even more on Observability: Observability will move up the organization to support the sustainability and FinOps drive. The combined pressure of needing to adopt more sustainable practices and tackle rising cloud costs will catapult observability from an IT priority to a business requirement in 2024 ...

December 05, 2023

Part 2 covers more on Observability: In 2024, observability platforms will embrace and innovate with new technologies like GenAI for real-time analytics, becoming the fulcrum for digital experience management ...

December 04, 2023

The Holiday Season means it is time for APMdigest's annual list of Application Performance Management (APM) predictions, covering IT performance topics. Industry experts — from analysts and consultants to the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, Observability, AIOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2024. Part 1 covers APM and Observability ...

November 06, 2023

From broadcast blackouts sending college football fans into a frenzy to pre-sale concert ticket site outages causing widespread hysteria, the inability to get things done in the event of an app or website glitch is taking an emotional toll on consumers in the US ...

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