The APM Blog
When employees can safely and quickly choose the best technologies the world has to offer, businesses are empowered to create, communicate, collaborate, innovate, execute, compete and win, according to a new global survey from Blue Coat Systems ...
The history of application performance management (APM) starts with the World Wide Web ...
When the load on any application climbs to a certain point the slowest part of the transaction path will limit application throughput. Response time will increase. Users will be unhappy ... When the load is high, all transactions race through the well provisioned parts of the system only to find an ever-increasing delay as they wait for slowest part of the transaction path. There are lots of potential bottleneck points in any transaction path, but only one at a time is your current bottleneck ...
Exponential growth in the use of smart devices has led to significant and increased demand for bandwidth across 84 per cent of organizations surveyed globally, according to new research commissioned by BT and Cisco ...
Nearly 40 percent of line of business (LOB) and IT executives surveyed indicated “operational resilience” systems signify business and IT services that are always on and available, according to survey results published in an IDC White Paper, sponsored by SunGard Availability Services, Lack of Operational Resilience Will Undermine Enterprise Competitiveness: A Strategy for Availability ...
Cloud solutions accelerate business results, according to Collaborating in the Cloud, a Forbes Insights, Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, accelerate business results and enhance innovation and collaboration across borders and functions ...
Customer experience (CX) is a more powerful customer loyalty driver than price-value perception, specifically for banks and retailers, according to new Forrester research ...
Assuring user experience should be the top priority among Big Data projects for enterprises and cloud service providers. Megatrends such as mobile, cloud and social drive the need for application awareness via better visibility and control. With survey after survey showing availability as the number one priority, spending on user experience assurance, also known as APM, is expected to remain strong. However, only solutions that cover the entire application delivery chain from the end-user experience perspective will suffice ...
I have never seen a case where a running application sees its response times drop as more load is added ...
Every year when I attend the major networking and interoperability conference known as Interop, I attempt to figure out what the theme of the show is. Sometimes that can be a tough job, but not at the recent Interop Las Vegas. Clearly, Software Defined Networking (or SDN) was the king of this year’s Interop ...
One-third of respondents identified server virtualization as the top monitoring challenge within their datacenter, closely followed by managing mobile devices, according to a survey released by Network Instruments at Interop Las Vegas 2013 ...
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Synthetic monitoring (active monitoring) helps reduce key blind spots for critical applications. We just experienced a production issue on a fully instrumented critical business application that first appeared nebulous ...
A growing number of IT organizations are seeking a new generation of IT Service Management applications to help them monitor and manage their IT services from within a hybrid environment of on-premise and cloud services ...
With its just-launched “Ecosystem Cloud” research, EMA is trying to understand how different sized IT organizations are managing applications and other services with options for internal cloud, external cloud, hybrid, and traditional infrastructure ...
Operational silos are often preventing organizations from realizing the promise of improved business performance and highlighted the need for a broad set of integrated cloud applications, according to Oracle's Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly report ...
The following are tips for how you can help a performance consultant solve your issues faster ...
Ninety-five percent of survey participants indicated their organizations have embraced BYOD, allowing employees to connect via personal mobile devices to internal networks, according to a Network Instruments survey conducted at Interop Las Vegas 2013 ...
Companies are reporting more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing, according to RightScale's second annual State of the Cloud survey ...
CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analyzed with big data ...
IT managers from companies around the world are struggling with network and application performance issues as new technologies and high-bandwidth applications continue to consume network resources at an alarming rate, according to new research from Exinda and Aberdeen Group ...
