Analytics

Closing DevOps Gaps with New Analytics-Based Tools
May 21, 2013

DevOps emerged as a philosophy for bridging the gap between operations and development silos, where each focused on different priorities, using different processes and tools. This article will focus on some key challenges existing in the DevOps approach — challenges that leave operations to wade through overwhelming amounts of operational data — and how new analytics-based tools stand to provide insight into meaningful information, ultimately closing this gap, and putting development and operations into better synch ...

The Butterfly Effect Within IT
April 19, 2013

The "Butterfly Effect" theoretically describes a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings weeks before. This highlights a sensitive dependence on environmental conditions where a small change at one place (Dev Env) can result in large differences to a later state (Production) ...

Q&A Part Two: TRAC Research Talks About the APM Spectrum
March 26, 2013

Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the APM Spectrum report, APM analytics, virtualization, and different types of APM for different job roles ...

IT Analytics Emerging as Dissatisfaction Grows with APM and BSM Tools
March 18, 2013

Available since the early 1990s, enterprises have relied on hundreds of IT management tools to monitor their infrastructure elements and applications. Still the promise of monitoring remains elusive. Many of these IT management tools present raw data, but lack insight into the actual meaning buried in all that data ...

Collaboration – At the Heart of VIP and Successful Operational Adoption
March 14, 2013

In a recent blog on operational adoption published in SOAWorld Magazine, Netuitive Founder Bob Farzami pointed to a white paper examining the challenges standing in the way of proactive management and outlined a methodology for best practices to ensure rapid time-to-value and implementation success. Titled Building the Proactive IT Operations Team Technology + Process + People = Proactive, the paper outlines key elements for successful operational adoption of predictive analytics and introduced a focused and evolutionary approach to adoption called VIP (Visibility, Isolation, Proactive Notification).

APM - Not Dead Yet
February 13, 2013

Gartner's recent report, Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?, shows some interesting trends that could change the face of Application Performance Management ...

Gartner Identifies 3 Key Analytics Trends for 2013
February 11, 2013

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics continues to be a top CIO investment priority, and yet user surveys by Gartner, Inc. show that only 30 percent of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools. This appears to be changing as organizations invest in making analytics "invisible," and more consumable and accessible, to the nontraditional analytics user ...

Gartner Q&A Part Three: Analytics vs. APM
January 30, 2013

Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about APM, analytics and mobile performance management ...

Gartner Q&A Part Two: Analytics vs. APM
January 29, 2013

Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about the future of Analytics and Application Performance Management ...

Gartner Q&A Part One: Analytics vs. APM
January 28, 2013

Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about his latest report: Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?