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I put this blog together to support my new research report on Introducing Software Analytics, A Key Business Technology Solution. If you want to know why it’s key then please read on …
It may sound childlike, but a good place to start before putting any metrics in place is to ask,"Why?" Probably the first answer at the top of most adopters' minds is because I have no choice if I'm going to sell this thing. Other bad reasons to establish metrics include to justify the cost of the CMDB project and to provide an absolute yardstick of CMDB success. While both of these motivators may sound good politically, they create a false notion of how value can be directly measured around a CMDB System ...
Performance analytics in cloud platforms is becoming table stakes amid intensifying price competition for increasingly commoditized services. The ability to effectively manage application performance is a key component of every infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider’s cloud monitoring strategy. As a result, cloud platform providers must continue to add functionality due to fewer opportunities to differentiate on raw compute or storage resources ...
Tools enabling Real User Monitoring, or RUM, have proliferated hugely over the last 10 years, to the point there are now countless hopeful vendors jostling for contention. Here are 10 points to consider about your potential RUM tool ...
As enterprises embrace the DevOps philosophy, and the coalescence of the Development and Operations continues, I foresee the conditions ripening to foster innovative methods of making application performance better and code deployments smoother. To me, the argument that system monitoring is just a “nice to have” and not really a core requirement for operational readiness dissipates quickly when a critical application goes down with no warning ...
The lack of innovation in traditional data centers has given way to developments in the cloud. It offers flexible user models such as Pay As You Go (PAYG) and Multi Tenancy services for e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS). The downside is that as the cloud’s capacity increases it is prone to more blackouts, security and compliance risks than we are led to believe ...
Nearly half of survey respondents are plagued by regular IT performance and availability issues, according to IT Growth and Transformation, a survey of UK CIOs and IT leaders ...
For those who firefight recurring performance problems, there is tremendous satisfaction in their heroic efforts. There is an adrenalin rush and a freedom of action that stands in stark contrast to the boring calm of an ordinary day ...
CIOs and other IT executives have made significant progress in their long-standing efforts to tightly align and coordinate their IT departments with their organizations’ business units. Despite this progress, obstacles remain before the vision of true IT and business integration can be fully realized, according to the results of the CIOs at a Technology and Cultural Crossroads survey ...
The following are four reasons why you should utilize Application Performance Management (APM) tools ...
Optimizing application development and maintenance (ADM) can cut costs by more than 50 percent, according to research by Gartner ...
Response time is the total amount of time you waited for something you asked for. If you have response time data, there are some really interesting questions you can answer about the total amount of time spent waiting and theoretical max throughput that can be achieved. Here we will look at a couple of them ...
While 75% of the top 100 retail websites employ a Content Delivery Network (CDN), the median home page takes a full second longer to become interactive than the median page that does not use a CDN ...
In my previous blog, CMDB System Use Cases - Part One, I discussed use cases such as Change Impact Management and Change Automation, and Asset Management and Financial Optimization. In this follow-up blog I cover two more CMDB use cases ...
The least effective way to begin a CMDB deployment is to simply assume that by having the software in place and feeding it with assorted data you're building a system that will magically bring you value. That's why I like to stress "relevance" and "use case" when planning a CMDB initiative. The following is a summary of CMDB/CMS-related use-cases based on observations from real deployments ...
The PADS Framework, for Performance Analytics and Decision Support, represents a more holistic approach to adaptive, proactive and predictive operational data management and analysis. The framework links advanced performance management and big data analytics technologies to enable organizations to gain deep and real-time visibility into, and predictive intelligence from, increasingly complex virtualized and mobile systems across the entire application delivery chain ...
A new Performance Analytics and Decision Support (PADS) framework linking advanced performance management and big data analytics technologies will emerge in 2014 ...
With consumers engaging more directly with businesses through mobile and social media, more than 60 percent of CIOs will focus more heavily on improving the customer experience and getting closer to customers, according to a new report released by IBM ...
Our relationship with technology is changing rapidly. It is becoming more intimate and personal, meaning that datacenter centric monitoring approaches that focus on availability and performance alone, while still essential, are only the beginning of what is required for a holistic technology monitoring strategy ...
IT Central Station is a fast-growing professional social network for enterprise IT professionals to share knowledge and expertise. Reading reviews on IT Central Station are a valuable source to understand the challenges that other companies are facing today when managing application performance and choosing the right APM vendor to address their needs. The following are three themes I have seen discussed in some of our recent APM reviews ...
