Feature Articles

Feature Articles

January 26, 2012

In APMdigest's exclusive interview, Matthew Ellis, IBM VP of Service Availability and Performance, APM including cost concerns, APM in the cloud, and Gartner's 5 dimensions of APM ...

January 18, 2012
David Williams and Leslie Minnix-Wolfe

End-user behavior learning technology provides the business with a view into how each end-user interacts with their online business services to ensure a superior user experience. The business learns about user experiences based on past online activity, and quickly and proactively adjusts to meet expected levels of service regardless of the conditions or variables ...

January 05, 2012
Srinivas Ramanathan

Once a decision to try out VDI is made, the primary focus is to benchmark the performance of physical desktops, model their usage, predict the virtualized user experience and based on the results, determine which desktops can be virtualized and which can't ...

January 04, 2012

As a continuation of the APMdigest list of predictions for 2012, industry experts offer a range of predictions specifically on cloud management, and Application Performance Management in the cloud ...

December 21, 2011
Raj Sabhlok and Suvish Viswanathan

The quality of an end user's experience of an application is becoming an ever more important consideration in the APM world. Increasingly, multiple applications and loosely coupled infrastructure components are coming together to contribute to the end user's experience. Understanding how all those applications and components are interacting at the point where the user is engaging them is crucial to an understanding of the user's experience ...

December 20, 2011

Industry experts from analyst and consulting firms and all the top vendors offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial predictions on how Application Performance Management and related BSM and ITSM technologies will change and impact business in 2012 ...

December 19, 2011

Bojan Simic, President & Principal Analyst, TRAC Research, shares the APM blind spots and challenges revealed by his new interactive report on APM ...

December 19, 2011

Bojan Simic, President & Principal Analyst, TRAC Research, discusses his new interactive report on Application Performance Management technologies and the market ...

December 15, 2011
David Hurwitz

Instead of throwing applications “over the fence” blindly to operations, a fluid and much more effective DevOps process inserts transparency, efficiency and ownership into the art of developing, releasing and the production use of critical applications. It also binds the two traditionally siloed teams together. The following are six critical steps IT can take to improve DevOps collaboration and ultimately the business bottom line, profitability ...

December 14, 2011
Jonathan Reeve

Storage arrays are faster and easier to configure, but with applications riding on top of virtualization using shared storage, arrays are often the hidden cause of application performance issues ...

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