Cloud

6 Recommendations for Service Assurance in the Cloud
May 10, 2012

Visibility in the cloud is essential, and you can't ensure a high level of user satisfaction unless you understand how users are experiencing access to cloud services. That requires monitoring performance from the user's perspective and following these six recommendations ...

APM as a Cornerstone of Major IT Projects
May 08, 2012

In the never-ending mission to do more with less, IT teams often lose sight of the need for careful, end-user-focused APM. After all, the delivery of fast, reliable, high-quality applications to end users must be the ultimate measure of success for any of these projects. If these projects aren't managed with explicit user-experience objectives, IT can introduce risks that can reduce or even eliminate the potential business benefits ...

Performance Management Challenges for Cloud-Hosted Services
April 30, 2012

Although easier to provision and operate, cloud computing does not reduce the complexity of the infrastructure that you, the IT manager, have to manage. The following are some of the main application performance challenges you will face in the cloud ...

Optimizing IT for Business: The Executive Perspective
April 24, 2012

If you're an IT executive trying to take control of your environment and optimize it for business outcomes — you're likely to be getting a lot of advice from a wide range of glib sources, and very little actual support ...

5 Steps to Optimizing Your Operations for the Cloud
April 19, 2012

Cloud is one way to respond to business needs faster. But unless you’ve prepped the underlying infrastructure launching services will still require manual work from your staff. Whether you’re just setting up your first private cloud or expanding your hybrid model, follow these steps to ensure your cloud initiative is primed for success ...

Looking for a Single Vendor to Help Lead You Into Cloud?
April 10, 2012

A strong core alignment with the right vendor can potentially help to prepare you for both the cultural and the technical challenges inherent in cloud with some level of cohesiveness. So here are a few things — in a master check list – if you are seeking a Virgil to lead you through Dante's Cloudy Inferno ...

Move to the Cloud or Stay Home?
April 06, 2012

Moving to cloud computing does not have to be a leap of faith. Doing your homework can also prevent a bad decision, because moving an application into the cloud – while technically feasible and fairly easy – may not always reap the benefits you expect. Here are some items to consider before, during and after migrating an application to the cloud ...

The Democratization of Analytics in the Cloud
April 05, 2012

"We've really graduated from the spreadsheet. Today's organizations need to respond much more quickly to market conditions. That means putting more information in the hands of more people in a organization. It's not just an issue of getting information to a few data analysts who are going to interact with the data warehouse." Sound familiar?

Infrastructure Management - Do You Still Care?
March 12, 2012

Infrastructure Management is so 1990s. Everyone has it. Could there be anything interesting left to say? Yes -- that it is more critical than ever. It may still be just the plumbing but the demands on it are only growing and yesterday’s point solutions won't do the job ...

Analytics at the Center of the Cloud
March 12, 2012

Today's Cloud services are enabling organizations of all sizes across a rapidly expanding array of industries to capture data, analyze its implications and disseminate timely insight so end-users and executives can act more effectively ...