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Up to 25 percent of organizations are at risk as they have no disaster preparedness and response plan, according to a SolarWinds recent survey ...
Approximately 70% of companies surveyed believe BYOD can improve their work processes and help them work better in the future, while an estimated 59% believe they would be at a competitive disadvantage without BYOD, according to a new Dell BYOD survey ...
If you’re thinking about how to build a sustainable APM solution and how it can be anchored into the IT culture, consider focusing on the integration touch points with existing IT processes ...
Some people like to live in the past. But while living in the past might be fine for people, it can be a disaster for an organization’s performance management systems. If the only way that your business can discover, manage and address application performance issues is after they have happened, then you are likely going to have a lot of unhappy users and customers (who may quickly become former customers) ...
One of the most pressing questions enterprises face is how to deal with the continued rise in both strategic and recreational Internet traffic as more and more high-bandwidth applications and P2P traffic cross the network, according to a report from Exinda which highlights the top five Internet challenges for enterprises in 2013 ...
I believe that 2013 will be the year that hybrid Cloud application deployments go mainstream ...
For those who are interested in what everyone else is reading, I would like to share with you a list of the top 10 articles and blogs - in terms of views - on APMdigest for 2012 ...
Administrators see that employees are using non-business applications like Facebook or YouTube and that these are sometimes impacting network performance and bandwidth availability. Often, the classic response in some businesses is to block these services outright ...
In the Inc. special report on How (and Where) to Make Money in 2013 (and Beyond), author Erik Sherman places Big Data on the list of 5 Trends to Ignore in 2013. In contrast, I suggest that ignoring Big Data is not a business savvy move in 2013 ...
More than two-thirds (70%) of respondents indicated that they are unaware of how to measure performance of applications in the Cloud, despite 86% stating that performance visibility in the Cloud is vital, according to a new survey of 140 IT managers and professionals conducted by ExtraHop Networks at IPEXPO in October 2012 ...
IT is struggling to keep up with the resulting pace of service demand, according to a new survey by Serena of 200 IT professionals that focused on the current state of IT Service Management (ITSM), with a particular focus on what ITIL calls Service Transition ...
I vividly remember my first foray into application performance testing ...
Having the ability to engage in a fact based conversation about the end-user-experience, instead of “spinning” infrastructure metrics and making assumptions about performance, is an elegant proficiency. Taking the emotion out of performance related problems for critical business applications is one of the intangible benefits that an APM solution can bring to your table ...
Cyber Monday was here and with it came wave after wave of online shoppers eager to get a head start on holiday shopping, along with a wave of sales pitches from performance management vendors eager to sell their products to businesses worried about the performance impact of a surge in online shopping ...
More than half (56%) of consumers who spend more than two hours per week shopping online have cancelled an order due to an error or slow response time ...
Despite all the industry talk about APM SaaS, the majority of enterprises responding to a CA Technologies sponsored survey are taking a cautious approach to its adoption today ...
With Cyber Monday and the holidays fast approaching, IT admins are on alert considering what this means to their e-commerce business and online user experience. According to a survey SolarWinds conducted among 71 IT professionals, 42 percent deem Cyber Monday an issue that requires proactive planning and monitoring ...
The changing shape of IT is causing CIOs to question the role of IT in the organization and the part they will play in it, according to Gartner, Inc., which has identified four dominant futures for IT in the organization ...
I had a series of meetings recently with a senior finance director for a Central Government organization in the UK. His problem was simple; due to government cuts every department was being asked to show its value. After a few meetings the board were convinced that measuring application performance was a good KPI to measure. But they voiced their challenge - how to get the IT director to work with them ...
In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), Lancope offered 5 tips for improving enterprise network protection ...