The BSM Blog

March 03, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Enterprise IT staffs spend significant time struggling to keep up with change management, as well as trying to improve overall end-user service quality. To address these issues, IT managers have implemented service modeling projects, which have helped make some progress but there is still far from universal satisfaction, according to a new survey by Neebula Systems ...

February 25, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

The Citrix ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report for the first quarter of 2013 highlights a need for speed on mobile apps ...

February 19, 2013
Dennis Drogseth
EMA

To begin a column, blog, or presentation with the idea that IT is undergoing a unique state of transformation may verge on cliché. And yet it’s still the truth. Moreover, this is a transformation that I would argue is more significant than the move to client/server off the mainframe, or even more significant than the advent of the Internet, itself. At least in terms of changing the role of IT and how IT needs to operate ...

February 15, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Nearly 40% of enterprise-sized organizations in the survey have indicated that they have implemented Big Data solutions on some scale, as either a production environment or a pilot system, according to a new Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and 9sight Consulting Research report ...

February 14, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

As I dig out from the recent Blizzard of 2013 here in New England, the thought of being somewhere warm in the South Pacific sounds pretty good to me. But if I was a business located somewhere in the South Pacific, and I had to communicate and connect with my many global locations in a fast and reliable way, that remote location can easily become a liability ...

February 13, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

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 ...

February 12, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

In the face of an ever-evolving cyber security landscape, researchers at Radware have identified a number of new attack methods representative of today’s increasingly sophisticated and severe DDoS threat ...

February 11, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

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 ...

February 08, 2013
Pete Goldin
APMdigest

97% of executives agree that delivering a great customer experience is critical to business advantage and results, and respondents estimate that the average potential revenue loss for not offering a positive, consistent and brand-relevant customer experience is 20% of annual revenue, according to Oracle's “Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era report ...

February 06, 2013
Jim Rapoza
Aberdeen Group

It is clear that many companies are making a mistake when it comes to ensuring that their network and application infrastructure is ready to handle the impact that virtual desktops can have on network and application performance ...