The BSM Blog

May 20, 2013
Jeffrey Kaplan
THINKstrategies

A growing number of IT organizations are seeking a new generation of IT Service Management applications to help them monitor and manage their IT services from within a hybrid environment of on-premise and cloud services ...

May 16, 2013
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

With its just-launched “Ecosystem Cloud” research, EMA is trying to understand how different sized IT organizations are managing applications and other services with options for internal cloud, external cloud, hybrid, and traditional infrastructure ...

May 15, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Operational silos are often preventing organizations from realizing the promise of improved business performance and highlighted the need for a broad set of integrated cloud applications, according to Oracle's Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly report ...

May 13, 2013
Bob Wescott
The Every Computer Performance Book

The following are tips for how you can help a performance consultant solve your issues faster ...

May 10, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Ninety-five percent of survey participants indicated their organizations have embraced BYOD, allowing employees to connect via personal mobile devices to internal networks, according to a Network Instruments survey conducted at Interop Las Vegas 2013 ...

May 08, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Companies are reporting more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing, according to
RightScale's second annual State of the Cloud survey ...

May 07, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analyzed with big data ...

May 03, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

IT managers from companies around the world are struggling with network and application performance issues as new technologies and high-bandwidth applications continue to consume network resources at an alarming rate, according to new research from Exinda and Aberdeen Group ...

May 02, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

If you’ve seen lots of wide area network diagrams you’ve probably noticed a familiar pattern emerge, one that bears a striking resemblance to the members of the arachnid family. Yep, quite a few WANs look an awful lot like a spider ,,, But in the modern world of cloud computing and distributed networks, is this really the smartest way to connect the many locations of a large and distributed enterprise? Isn’t there are smarter way to do this networking?

April 30, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The cost of routine IT issues experienced by workers and businesses has reached crisis proportions, negatively impacting employee and company productivity – and by extension shareholder value and national economic performance – to an extent not previously understood, according to a study by BMC Software and Forrester Research ...