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In the spirit of Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22, we recently asked IT professionals for the tips and tricks they're using to help keep their data centers as green as possible. Here are a few ideas inspired by the responses we got ...
The move to cloud-based solutions like Office 365, Google Apps and others is one of the biggest fundamental changes IT professionals will undertake in the history of computing. The cost savings and productivity enhancements available to organizations are huge. But these savings and benefits can't be reaped without careful planning, network assessment, change management and continuous monitoring. Read on for things that you shouldn't do with your network in preparation for a move to one of these cloud providers ...
As companies adopt new hardware and applications, their networks grow larger and become harder to manage. For network engineers and administrators, the continued emergence of integrated technology has forced them to reconfigure and manage networks in a more dynamic way ...
The complexity of data in motion is growing and risks undermining the success of the modern data-driven enterprise. A recent survey of data engineers and architects, conducted by StreamSets, sought to bring some perspective to the new reality in the enterprise, leading to some interesting insights about the enterprise data landscape ...
How exactly does APM help an organization, and when would a business choose to invest in this technology? When does APM make sense and when doesn’t it? And, more broadly, how does this tie into the changing needs of IT monitoring? Finally, why does the agent vs. agentless debate continue to rage on? ...
IT staff can't afford to waste time by manually comparing results from multiple different tools to determine the status of their important applications and identify the causes of performance issues when they arise. IT personnel need to think about solutions that deliver more accurate, real-time insights into virtual environments, so they can keep the business humming and end users productive. Here are a few tips on how IT teams can avoid or resolve application performance issues quickly and easily ...
Application bottlenecks can lead an otherwise functional computer or server to slow down to a crawl. Addressing bottleneck issues usually results in returning the system to operable performance levels; however, fixing bottleneck issues requires first identifying the underperforming component. These five bottleneck causes are among the most common ...
Providing business-critical services at agreed service levels is not easy because numerous factors such as faulty configuration changes, bandwidth, network performance and attacks affect them. To ensure seamless availability of business-critical services, IT teams have to overcome such challenges. ManageEngine surveyed IT professionals to find out the top five challenges that might impact IT in 2017 ...
Monitoring a business means monitoring an entire business – not just IT or application performance. If businesses truly care about differentiating themselves from the competition, they must approach monitoring holistically. Separate, siloed monitoring systems are quickly becoming a thing of the past ...
Why containers are growing in popularity is no surprise — they’re extremely easy to spin up or down, but come with an unforeseen issue. Without the right foresight, DevOps and IT teams may lose a lot of visibility into these containers resulting in operational blind spots and even more haystacks to find the presumptive performance issue needle ...
Let’s say your company has examined all the potential pros and cons, and moved your critical business applications to the cloud. The advertised benefits of the cloud seem like they’ll work out great. And in many ways, life is easier for you now. But as often happens when things seem too good to be true, reality has a way of kicking in to reveal just exactly how many things can go wrong with your cloud setup – things that can directly impact your business ...
The move to Citrix 7.X is in full swing. This has improved the centralizing of Management and reduction of costs, but End User Experience is becoming top of the business objectives list. However, delivering that is not something to be considered after the upgrade ...
As organizations understand the findings of the Cyber Monday Web Performance Index and look to improve their site performance for the next Cyber Monday shopping day, I wanted to offer a few recommendations to help any organization improve in 2017 ...
Online retailers stand to make a lot of money on Cyber Monday as long as their infrastructure can keep up with customers. If your company's site goes offline or substantially slows down, you're going to lose sales. And even top ecommerce sites experience performance or stability issues at peak loads, like Cyber Monday, according to Apica's Cyber Monday Web Performance Index ...
Applications and infrastructure are being deployed and commissioned at a faster rate than ever before, the number of tools it takes to effectively manage these services is multiplying, and the expectations placed on IT to ensure customer satisfaction is increasing, according to The State of Monitoring 2017 report from BigPanda ...
So, your site is down because AWS S3 went away. We have some real insight into what design for cloud resiliency really means thanks to a chat that I had recently ...
Last week, SmartBear observed a sudden and protracted 5X increase in web page timeout errors associated with the failure of Amazon's S3 cloud-based storage service. Looking a bit more closely at our data, we dug up a few more interesting angles on the impact of the failure ...
With over 400K customers, Citrix is defining the digital workspace that securely delivers Windows, Linux, web, SaaS apps, and full virtual desktops to any device, anywhere. Citrix administrators at all these customers are the frontline for addressing dissatisfied end users of those applications and desktops. Unfortunately, even today, understanding real end-user experience in Citrix environments remains an unsolved puzzle ...
For decades IT departments have been regarded as "cost centers" — departments and entire divisions made up of necessary expenses which don't produce any measurable profit but instead help companies avoid losses by ensuring uptime, addressing end-user concerns and implementing C-suite approved technologies. However, this attitude is changing: Companies now recognize the potential of IT departments to drive total ROI and boost the bottom line ...