Feature Articles

5 Reasons You Should Consider Application-Aware Network Performance Management
April 02, 2013
Suvish Viswanathan

It’s not just the network infrastructure that IT teams need to consider; it’s not even the increasingly complex application infrastructure that stands between the physical network infrastructure and the users. The challenge today involves the effective management of both these infrastructures as well the interplay between them — and it’s the interplay between them that poses the greatest challenge. Application-aware network performance management tools can help you overcome that challenge ...

5 Top Findings from TRAC Research's APM Spectrum
March 29, 2013
Bojan Simic

The following are five interesting findings from TRAC Research's APM Spectrum report, based on more than 400 survey participants and more than 120 live interviews ...

Q&A Part Three: TRAC Research Talks About the APM Spectrum
March 27, 2013

Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the APM Spectrum report, APM in the cloud, mobility, APM/NPM convergence and more ...

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 ...

Q&A Part One: TRAC Research Talks About the APM Spectrum
March 25, 2013

Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the firm's new APM Spectrum report ...

Application Performance Management is More Than Application Performance Monitoring
March 21, 2013
Jennifer Kuvlesky

Application Performance Management, as defined by the industry, is focused on monitoring — because you can’t manage what you can’t see. But, there are other functions involved in managing application performance ...

Building a DevOps Bridge to the APM Future
March 12, 2013
Gary Jackson

For many of us in the application or software development industry, APM was supposed to be a magic bullet, a way to catch the occasional unforeseen mistake that slipped through to production releases. In reality, even with APM tools reporting production issues, there has been no discernable increase in the quality of applications delivered ...

Is Social IT Really Worth It?
March 05, 2013
Matthew Selheimer

What’s the real value of Social IT? Will this just be a flash in the pan until we move on to the next claimed “breakthrough”? In other words, is Social IT really worth it such that it will actually stick around and become part of the fabric of how we manage IT as a discipline?

Q&A Part Two: Chris Dancy of BMC Talks About Social Media
February 28, 2013

Chris Dancy, Director, Office of the CTO at BMC Software, talks about social media, Social IT, data overload, and the outlook for IT ...

Q&A Part One: Chris Dancy of BMC Talks About APM and User Experience
February 28, 2013

Chris Dancy, Director, Office of the CTO at BMC Software, talks about APM and user experience ...