APM
In the never-ending mission to do more with less, IT teams often lose sight of the need for careful, end-user-focused APM. After all, the delivery of fast, reliable, high-quality applications to end users must be the ultimate measure of success for any of these projects. If these projects aren't managed with explicit user-experience objectives, IT can introduce risks that can reduce or even eliminate the potential business benefits ...
I think there's a fallacy in the idea that there is any such thing as a ‘traditional’ SysAdmin. I've functioned in the SysAdmin role in many organizations, and many types of IT structures and industries – in every single instance my job description was notably different from the previous and subsequent employer. Different organizations have different needs – sometimes completely irrelevant to the local vs cloud question – sometimes it's just a function of the technological maturity of the organization itself ...
If you're an IT executive trying to take control of your environment and optimize it for business outcomes — you're likely to be getting a lot of advice from a wide range of glib sources, and very little actual support ...
One of the common questions that every IT manager asks on a regular basis is, “Why is my application so slow today when everything was fine yesterday?” APM is the only way to truly answer that question, and it is one of the must-have tools for every IT manager. With this APM imperative in mind, the following are 10 capabilities every IT manager should look for when choosing an APM solution ...
In a large data center, an application performance management (APM) solution can generate thousands of metric data points per second. This data avalanche will contain the health information about the IT environment and the challenge is to manage the sheer scale of this data ...
Where web applications are concerned, consider that conversion rates increase 74 percent when page load times decrease from eight to two seconds. Conversely, some research reveals that when a supply chain management application is down, these businesses lose $11,000 per minute. This article will explore the business impact of application performance and why the end-user experience is the ultimate measure of success ...
By embracing End-User-Experience (EUE) measurements as a key vehicle for demonstrating productivity, you build trust with your constituents in a very tangible way. The translation of IT metrics into business meaning (value) is what APM is all about. The goal here is to simplify a complicated technology space by walking through a high-level view within each core element. I’m suggesting that the success factors in APM adoption center around the EUE and the integration touch points with the Incident Management process ...
With new technologies presenting a broader range of methods for network access and use, the complexities of supporting services across the enterprise are becoming even more challenging. With these challenges in mind, the following three key factors are certain to play significant roles in next-generation network management capabilities and solutions in the years to come ...
Shane Pearson, Vice President, Product Marketing for HP Software, discusses predictive analytics and its importance to APM ...
Shane Pearson, Vice President, Product Marketing for HP Software, shares guidance on APM challenges including mobile performance, security and event management ...
Shane Pearson, Vice President, Product Marketing for HP Software, provides a unique insider's view into HP BSM and HP APM ...
Application Performance Management (APM) is currently going through a revitalization following cloud and DevOps technology evolutions (possibly revolutions), as well as innovation in areas such as analytics and real-time monitoring, so it is timely to define exactly what is meant by the term ...
The findings of a new commissioned cloud survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC reveal increasing tension between business and IT stakeholders.
It's no secret that we live in a siloed enterprise IT world. Many attempts have been made to better connect functional departments before but it seems like very little progress has been made. Not only are the different applications that underpin common business processes run as fiefdoms, but the distributed tiered nature of modern application architecture creates walls around functions and tiers. When you add operations to the mix you have multiple stakeholders with conflicting agendas, delegating application performance to the firefighting exercise that ensures once business is severely impacted ...
The thought of adding yet more performance testing cycles into an already overstretched delivery team often elicits the same reaction as the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression then acceptance ...
Gartner has defined five dimensions for managing application performance, and this article outlines how the Auto Club Group prioritizes each of these dimensions -- based on our experience over the last six years spent fine tuning different facets of the model to better support the business ...
Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester, provides valuable insight into the present state and future of APM ...
Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester, offers guidance on selecting and managing APM solutions ...
As someone who might call himself a “humanist” who has worked 31 years in high technology as of this April – I’ve developed a few areas of persistent complaint that seem to reoccur without getting much better. And having spent thirty-one years in the industry, and therefore getting old — I guess I’ve come to feel entitled to a little orneriness from time to time.
Of course, no self-respecting turkey would vote for Christmas. It would be suicidal! But is it suicidal for Local Government IT departments to vote for implementing Application Performance Management (APM)? It seems many technical departments think it is ...
It’s no secret that the cloud has forever changed IT. IT is evolving into more distributed, modular, complex architectures. Moving services to the cloud to take advantage of increased agility at a lower cost means taking some risks as there are greater complexities to manage and applications may or may not be in your control. Cloud has essentially changed the game for what’s needed in an enterprise APM solution for today’s modern businesses ...
Public Cloud customers are finding that, while Cloud services are easy to consume, they are not as easy to govern and manage. This abstraction layer means that traditional APM solutions may not be as useful as they once were. As a result, many CIOs are finding it necessary to reevaluate management portfolios for Cloud-readiness ...
eG Innovations asked over 150 IT operations professionals in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific about their performance management preferences and thoughts. The survey results show that companies are having a hard time keeping up with the performance management requirements of virtualized IT infrastructures ...
On February 2, Compuware released its annual Best of the Web 2011 report recognizing the year’s website and mobile site performance leaders across a variety of industries. What made these companies winners, and how are they able to deliver fast, reliable mobile site experiences that set them apart from their competition?
At a recent trade show, there was an interesting question from the audience about how to hold their Cloud provider responsible for slow performance of their applications. How to avoid the next catastrophic outage and ensure they had SLAs to penalize the cloud provider for sloppy application performance ...
