APM
Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) may sound arcane — and sadly to some extent it still remains so. The notion of actively discovering application and infrastructure interdependencies for their impacts on service delivery, is still sometimes a combination of technological wizardry, domain expertise and sheer force of will. But the capabilities for doing this are evolving to become far more dynamic and varied in design and value than was true even two or three years ago ...
Breaking down IT silos. While the premise is good, it’s not always easy to break out of individual silos to work as a cohesive team. One place to start that can pay immediate dividends is having the application performance management and capacity management teams work together. How can you benefit from the marriage of APM and capacity planning? Five ways ...
Colin Fletcher, Research Director, IT Operations Management for Gartner, talks about the emergence of the Business Value Dashboard (BVD) ...
Colin Fletcher, Research Director, IT Operations Management for Gartner, talks about the emergence of the Business Value Dashboard (BVD) ...
End-to-end APM is the "gold standard" in application monitoring, according to a new survey infographic titled The State of APM from Germain Software ...
Talk about the wire with IT and networking administrators and they’ll think of the data that is constantly flowing over their networks. In these settings, being on the wire means that these technology workers can see everything that is happening on their network in real-time. And this capability can be key for any organization that wants to ensure that their networks and the applications that run on them are reliable and performing at peak capabilities ...
On any given day you, as the performance person, should be able to have a fairly good idea of how much work the users are asking the system to do and what the major performance meters are showing. If you have a good sense of what is normal for your situation, then any abnormality will jump right out at you ...
Improving application performance is the top business priority for virtualized environments, according to a Gridstore study ...
Setting up a network or application monitoring system involves creating alerts for critical parameters that need attention. Alerts are an integral part of monitoring and they should be easily understandable, provide actionable knowledge and should not make excessive noise. For an alert to be valuable to the user and meet those criteria, the right set of thresholds is essential. That really is the question then: How do you find the right threshold values for your alerts ...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the basic principles of APM, and a simple methodology that can be applied to any monitoring initiative or strategic discussion about application performance ...
Sometimes the results of your performance work contain bad (expensive, disruptive, or embarrassing) news. If that is the case, here are two suggestions that will make delivering that news easier and ultimately more useful for all involved ...
Some companies have turned to automation to lower costs and increase efficiency, but the increasing number of distributed, virtual and cloud-based applications pose a unique challenge for APM as processes quickly become outdated and insufficient. And to make matters worse, the complexity of application delivery environments is outstripping the ability of APM products to monitor and manage performance ...
There’s a new, third wave of smarter, more sophisticated analytics hitting the APM market; these solutions are designed to help shorten the duration of outages and possibly prevent them by giving application operators earlier warnings of problems brewing beneath the surface ...
A survey by Research in Action determined cloud computing to be the top IT investment priority for 2013. No surprises there, as clearly these professionals are being driven by the promised benefits of greater agility, flexibility and time-to-value. What is surprising is the fact that 79 percent of these professionals expressed concern over the hidden costs of cloud computing, with poor end-user experience resonating as the biggest management worry ...
The goal of every software developer and tester is to produce applications that meet user expectations and achieve business objectives. Standing in their way is the need to understand and predict the production environment and how real-world end users will experience the application ...
Russell Rothstein, Station Master and CEO of IT Central Station, and veteran of the APM industry, discusses APM product reviews on itcentralstation.com ...
Shoppers consult three websites on average before making a purchase and poor website performance causes the shopper to go to a competitor, according to an extensive Harris Poll survey on website performance and mobile shopping sponsored by Riverbed Technology ...
Today's Business is heavily dependent on IT systems to perform at the best. If IT is able to proactively detect performance degradation and rectify it before it severely impacts the business, that could not only save loss of revenue and also credibility for the business with its customers ...
In a perfect world, APM has all the right elements in place, providing value to the business and IT by giving us the metrics we need and showing us the health of our applications. It alerts us to anomalies when slowdowns occur, and shows us trends on performance. But there are other elements in play that can make the operations a little smoother and our days a little brighter ...
Gartner’s five dimensions of APM did, I guess, a good job of structuring the market (at least in what concerns "Monitoring" – it doesn’t look like we get to "Management" yet). But some statements coming from Gartner somewhat trouble me ...
One of the main benefits from implementing a holistic APM solution is, that every stakeholder in delivering the end user experience, will have the same perspective and information to base their decisions and actions on, which ensures business continuity ...
Let’s face it, we as consumers are a finicky bunch. We expect 105 percent uptime and faster-than-instantaneous response time from the Web services and applications we interact and do business with ...
One of the main bottom-line benefits gained from APM is a positive user experience ...
APMdigest just posted a list of 10 Bottom-Line Business Benefits of APM. This is an important list, because I think the industry sometimes forgets that this is what Application Performance Management should be all about. It seems that sometimes the industry gets too caught up in the IT benefits of APM, and forgets about the business benefits of APM — even though those are the benefits that really matter in the end ...
This is quite possibly the most important list we have posted on APMdigest. The bottom-line business benefits are what APM is really all about, or should be all about, although the market can forget this at times. But the reality is that no company should be deploying Application Performance Management unless they are using it to drive bottom-line business benefits such as those on this list. The benefits on this list are the payoff, the end result, the ultimate reason for APM ...
