APM
IT Operations is now overwhelmed — by the volume, velocity and variety of change and configuration data, lacking insight or actionable information, all making change and configuration problems a chronic pain. As shown by recent surveys at the Gartner Data Center Summit and ServiceNow Knowledge13 conferences, where Evolven surveyed over 300 IT Operations professionals asking questions critical to IT operations management, 84% of IT professionals said that they want to significantly improve their IT operations management ...
IT operations managers are taking a high percentage of the blame when apps and sites stop working. Here are a few pressure points on IT operations today ...
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 ...
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 ...
In essence, the health of ERP application performance is a proxy for business health, and fast, reliable applications have never been more important. However, the increased complexity within modern application delivery environments makes it very difficult to ensure strong performance ...
We’re all way too technical and often a user reporting “The network is slow” is taken literally. Then an investigation of the network is performed to absolutely no avail, because the user(s) who reported it have no way on earth of telling if the network is slow or fast or anything else. They’re actually observing that their “Application is Slow” ...
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 ...
While mobile is quickly becoming the de-facto market platform for many of the business-critical applications deployed by banks, insurance companies and other enterprise organizations, the need to ensure an optimal end user experience mandates a robust mobile performance testing environment. Building an efficient mobile performance test strategy should consist of the following five pillars ...
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 ...
Always regarded as a non-critical part of day-to-day operations in the past, Big Data and its delayed analysis was relegated to batch processing tools and monthly meetings. Today, as the IT industry has snowballed into a fast moving avalanche of Cloud, virtualization, outsourcing and distributed computing, the science of extracting meaningful intelligent metrics from Big Data has become an important and real-time component of IT Operations ...
Saving the day when performance unexpectedly suffers takes two things: the courage to act and preparation. The courage comes from within, but being prepared is easy — it can happen daily as part of your normal work. Here are some hints ...
“A company missing its targets is an underperforming company. A company missing its forecast is a company out of control.” This was a favorite saying of an old friend of mine in sales management, and while you could argue the merits of the first sentence, the second is fairly undeniable. And yet it seems to me that when it comes to APM, many organizations fail to qualify for either category – neither underperforming nor even out of control ...
What if your mission-critical app is not designed to last? What if your app is perishable with a shelf life of only a few hours or days? With these apps, traditional monitoring and remediation become irrelevant. The app will expire before it can be fixed. But, that doesn't mean that perishable apps are fated to be poor performing and unsatisfying. Proper planning, testing, and additional resources can keep your perishable apps from going bad ...
The "Butterfly Effect" theoretically describes a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings weeks before. This highlights a sensitive dependence on environmental conditions where a small change at one place (Dev Env) can result in large differences to a later state (Production) ...
When trying to pin down the top factor impacting application performance, the right answer is that there is no right answer.
What is it that drives the need for Application Performance Management? What are the main factors that can negatively impact application performance? What should you be looking out for? That is what this new APMdigest list reveals ...
As an analyst focused on performance management and optimization technologies, I hear a lot of reasons for why businesses should implement these technologies. They need to improve their network and server infrastructure; they should have high visibility into activities; they need to boost connectivity between multiple offices. These are all valid reasons for using performance management technologies. But in the end it breaks down to one key reason that is behind all of these and most other performance management justifications. It’s the applications ...
The following are five interesting findings from TRAC Research's APM Spectrum report, based on more than 400 survey participants and more than 120 live interviews ...
Do you like fast cars? I must admit I do. I also like websites that are fast too. In this day and age where Internet speed is now blazing fast, your customers expect everything else to keep pace ...
Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the APM Spectrum report, APM in the cloud, mobility, APM/NPM convergence and more ...
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 ...
Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the firm's new APM Spectrum report ...
Application Performance Management, as defined by the industry, is focused on monitoring — because you can’t manage what you can’t see. But, there are other functions involved in managing application performance ...
