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Larry Dragich of AAA Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

APMdigest welcomes Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group, to the APMdigest blogging team on The BSM Blog.

Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group (ACG), has 22 years of IT experience. He has served in an IT leadership role at the Auto Club Group (ACG) for the past nine years.

Larry has been working in the Application Performance Management (APM) space since 2006, when he built the Enterprise Systems Management team which is now the focal point for the IT performance monitoring and capacity planning activities at ACG.

Larry serves with overall accountability to optimize the capability of the IT infrastructure to deliver high availability and optimal performance. His team relies on a heterogeneous solution with multiple product suites playing key roles in the Application Performance Management space in order to gain visibility to support essential business services and processes.

Larry is actively involved with industry leaders sharing knowledge of APM technologies from best practices and technical workflows to resource allocation and approaches for implementation of APM Strategies.

He is also a contributing editor on Wikipedia focused on defining the APM space and how it ties into the critical ITIL processes many companies are now using.

You can contact Larry on LinkedIn.

Click here to read Larry Dragich's first blog: The Anatomy of APM – 4 Foundational Elements to a Successful Strategy

Click here to read Larry Dragich's recent article on APMdigest: Prioritizing Gartner's APM Model

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Larry Dragich of AAA Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

APMdigest welcomes Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group, to the APMdigest blogging team on The BSM Blog.

Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group (ACG), has 22 years of IT experience. He has served in an IT leadership role at the Auto Club Group (ACG) for the past nine years.

Larry has been working in the Application Performance Management (APM) space since 2006, when he built the Enterprise Systems Management team which is now the focal point for the IT performance monitoring and capacity planning activities at ACG.

Larry serves with overall accountability to optimize the capability of the IT infrastructure to deliver high availability and optimal performance. His team relies on a heterogeneous solution with multiple product suites playing key roles in the Application Performance Management space in order to gain visibility to support essential business services and processes.

Larry is actively involved with industry leaders sharing knowledge of APM technologies from best practices and technical workflows to resource allocation and approaches for implementation of APM Strategies.

He is also a contributing editor on Wikipedia focused on defining the APM space and how it ties into the critical ITIL processes many companies are now using.

You can contact Larry on LinkedIn.

Click here to read Larry Dragich's first blog: The Anatomy of APM – 4 Foundational Elements to a Successful Strategy

Click here to read Larry Dragich's recent article on APMdigest: Prioritizing Gartner's APM Model

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AI is the catalyst for significant investment in data teams as enterprises require higher-quality data to power their AI applications, according to the State of Analytics Engineering Report from dbt Labs ...

Misaligned architecture can lead to business consequences, with 93% of respondents reporting negative outcomes such as service disruptions, high operational costs and security challenges ...

A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

IT and line-of-business teams are increasingly aligned in their efforts to close the data gap and drive greater collaboration to alleviate IT bottlenecks and offload growing demands on IT teams, according to The 2025 Automation Benchmark Report: Insights from IT Leaders on Enterprise Automation & the Future of AI-Driven Businesses from Jitterbit ...

A large majority (86%) of data management and AI decision makers cite protecting data privacy as a top concern, with 76% of respondents citing ROI on data privacy and AI initiatives across their organization, according to a new Harris Poll from Collibra ...

According to Gartner, Inc. the following six trends will shape the future of cloud over the next four years, ultimately resulting in new ways of working that are digital in nature and transformative in impact ...

2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

Regardless of OpenShift being a scalable and flexible software, it can be a pain to monitor since complete visibility into the underlying operations is not guaranteed ... To effectively monitor an OpenShift environment, IT administrators should focus on these five key elements and their associated metrics ...

An overwhelming majority of IT leaders (95%) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation is set to be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far, according to The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, And Employee Experience, a new report from Nexthink ...

Overall outage frequency and the general level of reported severity continue to decline, according to the Outage Analysis 2025 from Uptime Institute. However, cyber security incidents are on the rise and often have severe, lasting impacts ...