APM
I believe that the foundation to good business technology management is your monitoring strategy, and a couple of weeks ago my report Guarantee Business Value From Technology Monitoring went live on Forrester’s website. The report outlines a blueprint for holistic business technology monitoring based on my own practitioner experience in this space plus a number of primary research interviews that I carried out in July and August this year ...
Scott Register, Sr. Director of Product Management, Ixia, talks about network visibility and its relation to APM ...
I've come up with a wish-list of features that I would like to see in a true best-in-class APM solution ...
Apps are not being monitored due to expense, time, and difficulty, and end-to-end and unified coverage are lacking, according to a new CopperEgg survey of 150 IT professionals. Check out the Infographic ...
Substantial adoption of mobile shopping can be expected during the upcoming 2013 holiday season, according to a new consumer survey from Compuware's Application Performance Management (APM) division, conducted with the help of Harris Interactive. The results also demonstrated how demanding mobile end-users are when it comes to the quality (speed and availability) of their mobile interactions ...
Predicting the performance perils from application deployments requires more than just a toolset, but a mindset that is open to multiple inputs and continuous improvement. Acquiring an appreciation for an application monitoring taxonomy will be useful when gathering end user requirements for an APM implementation. Understanding the nuances between active and passive monitoring within this paradigm will help facilitate a more focused approach for technology selection ...
Technology has improved by leaps and bounds, but our ability to leverage it to our best business effect isn't nearly as well optimized. Too often, IT has become its own little world, all but divorced from the business side and unable to take into account business goals and strategies in the way services are managed ...
For many years the focus of APM was on making the application server run better. And from that perspective, it was successful. However, while the application server became more reliable and ran faster, the two key features IT Operations management desire: getting alerted to problems before the end user is affected and being pointed in the right direction have not improved much ...
With the holidays rapidly approaching, the top goal of many online retailers and e-commerce companies is delivering superior online experiences that drive conversions. This should come as no surprise, with eMarketer predicting United States e-commerce revenues to increase about 15.1 percent year-over-year during the prime holiday shopping months of November and December. Here are the top five must-have e-commerce features that can help you grow your business this holiday season ...
In my last column, I discussed the importance of Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) as a tremendously valuable resource for managing and optimizing application and business services, as well as the IT infrastructures, and supporting them, in the age of cloud, agile, and consumer-driven IT. In this column, I'm going to delve more closely into our evaluation criteria — as they applied to the radar, but also as they might apply to you in making an investment choice in ADDM ...
Don’t get me wrong, this isn't a political statement. Applications don't care if you are a Republican or a Democrat. They don't care if they were created in Canada or India, or if they are written in Ruby, Java or .NET. And the bottom line is that I don't care either — because the real problem behind the site's performance problems is dead simple — lack of testing ...
Availability has become, over the past decade, an intrinsic requirement in all application performance whether it is internal or external applications. We don’t think about it quite so much, but what is becoming increasingly essential is speed ...
In 2013, TRAC Research completed studies in five major areas of coverage which includes insights from 2,000+ organizations. Some of the technologies covered in this research include: application performance monitoring; network performance monitoring; Web and user experience monitoring and testing; systems management. This research resulted in more than 1,000 unique data points collected. Here is a summary of some of the key trends identified ...
Charley Rich, VP Marketing and Product Management at Nastel, talks about logging and application performance ...
In this era of unprecedented complexity, it's virtually impossible for a modern website to eliminate all the risk associated with using third parties. However, there are proactive strategies an organization can implement to better manage and minimize their risk ...
What is the cost of downtime? The answer obviously depends on various factors such as the size of an organization, the industry, the duration of the outage and the number of people impacted. To provide a ballpark, though, the Uptime Institute Symposium estimates an average cost of $5,600 per minute. And it's not all about dollars and cents. Reputation, customer retention, employee satisfaction and overall confidence can be shaken by even a short outage ...
During his keynote speech at the recent Interop 2013 conference in New York, Cisco CEO John Chambers talked about how technology trends are moving towards a focus on applications. Chambers said: We're moving from a web economy to an application economy ...
Websites for the top 500 US retailers are still too slow and continue to get slower, according to State of the Union: Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance, Fall 2013, a new study by Radware ...
In the IT department, the rise of the Oracle-powered business is putting the pressure on IT admins and managers charged with supporting an exploding number of business-critical applications. So, what does it take to optimize an Oracle installation? Here are three keys to maximizing your Oracle application performance ...
According to a new study of global CIOs and IT decision makers, bandwidth requirements and network spending are both increasing. Simultaneously, application problems are also on the rise. Taken together, these results suggest that throwing more bandwidth and more funds at network management isn't working ...
According to a survey by IDG Research Services, 80 percent of senior-level IT leaders place a high or critical priority on Infrastructure Performance Management and 79 percent have established a cross-domain team dedicated to managing the performance of their IT infrastructure ...
Page loading time is a simple but key metric that goes straight to your bottom-line, as illustrated in this new infographic by Kissmetrics ...
Today, no application is a standalone and in reality is very likely a composition of multiple applications running on different virtual servers to provide a function. This function can be composed of 10 different applications. All these applications together provide a service, and it is the performance and availability of that service that the business cares about. This distinction is so important that it deserves a new name. I call it "Service Performance Management" as opposed to Application Performance Management ...
Speaking with delegates at a Cloud World Conference, I discovered that many are still taking a chance with their mission-critical applications. There seems to be a belief that in order to discover how their apps will work in a real world network, like a WAN or Cloud network, their only option is to conduct tests using the live network. I was kinda surprised! I mean when do they do this?
It is so difficult to effectively manage application performance that a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Riverbed found of 159 IT professionals with direct responsibility for business-critical applications, 54 percent of those surveyed are unable to resolve more than 25 percent of their problems in less than 24 hours. And 31 percent have experienced issues that persist for a month or more ...
