Virtualization

Converged Infrastructure Delivers Improved IT Service, Survey Says
April 05, 2013

30% of the survey respondents have adopted a converged infrastructure, according to the 2013 State of Converged Infrastructure survey conducted by Zenoss ...

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 ...

Optimizing Business Performance: Why Every C-level Manager Should Care About Virtualization
March 24, 2013

The adoption of virtualization technologies has allowed IT to become more supportive of business objectives and reduce the overall cost of their services, allowing the re-direction of those freed resources to more critical programs. C-Level managers that want more from their IT departments should understand the positive impact of virtualization technologies ...

4 Virtualization Trends Impacting APM in 2013
February 26, 2013

eG Innovations is observing the following IT trends as well as the way these changes elevate the need for deep performance visibility, automated cross-silo performance correlation and diagnosis, pre-emptive problem alerting and predictive analytics so that companies can deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT ...

Virtual Desktops and Their Very Real Impact on Company Networks
February 06, 2013

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 ...

13 APM Predictions for 2013
December 19, 2012

Industry experts - from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors - offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial and contradictory predictions on how APM will change and impact business in 2013 ...

Best Practices to Resolve Resource Contention in the Cloud
October 18, 2012

Preventing a slow application caused by probable resource contention requires a rigorous methodological approach and an appropriate toolset. IT managers, working with business owners, should prioritize critical apps for multi-tenancy and maximum performance ...

4 Challenges in Virtualizing SAP
September 11, 2012

A recent Aberdeen Group survey indicates that only 31% of SAP deployments have been virtualized so far. When SAP users were questioned about the reasons for not moving to a virtualized infrastructure for supporting SAP, four key areas of concern were mentioned ...

Virtualization Breaking Down the Storage Silo
June 12, 2012

Managing virtualization and storage in context is becoming critical and is helping to break down the strong silos between virtualization and storage that have persisted from the physical server and storage days. The new landscape that has developed around the virtual environment is driving convergence and helping bring virtualization and storage closer together ...

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 ...