APM
Assessing real-world, end-user network conditions and understanding inefficient use of network resources are the top two issues facing application performance engineers in 2013, according to a new survey by Shunra Software ...
Average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers and traditional hosting providers is 7.5 hours, according to a new infographic created by RightScale ...
Available since the early 1990s, enterprises have relied on hundreds of IT management tools to monitor their infrastructure elements and applications. Still the promise of monitoring remains elusive. Many of these IT management tools present raw data, but lack insight into the actual meaning buried in all that data ...
For many of us in the application or software development industry, APM was supposed to be a magic bullet, a way to catch the occasional unforeseen mistake that slipped through to production releases. In reality, even with APM tools reporting production issues, there has been no discernable increase in the quality of applications delivered ...
APM is entering into a period of intense competition of technology and strategy with a multiplicity of vendors and viewpoints. While the nomenclature used within its space has five distinct dimensions that elucidate its meaning, the very acronym of APM is in question: Application Performance - Monitoring vs. Management ...
There are many APM solutions out in the market place - some 200 at last count - across different disciplines and domains, with differing features, methodology and options. The trick is to find one that suits you best ...
Chris Dancy, Director, Office of the CTO at BMC Software, talks about APM and user experience ...
For advertisers, the Super Bowl represents much more than a football game. It’s the pinnacle event in the advertising industry’s year, where companies spend millions of dollars for 30 second and one-minute ad blocks as well as millions for the creation of the ads ...
In my last blog, I discussed strategies for dealing with the complexities of monitoring performance in the various stacks that make up a cloud implementation. Here, we will look at ways to detect trends, analyze your data, and act on it ...
In cloud environments, where volatility is the norm, it becomes ever more difficult to predict application behavior and measure performance. Now, we are chasing a moving target, and hence the added difficulties. Are you up for the challenge?
More than half of senior IT operations executives are dissatisfied with their APM solutions, and 75% are dissatisfied with their BSM solutions, according to a new BlueStripe survey of Fortune 500 companies ...
Gartner's recent report, Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?, shows some interesting trends that could change the face of Application Performance Management ...
In a recent survey of 300 application developers, conducted by Boundary, we found that nearly 60 percent of participants had been affected by a Cloud outage. Around 72 percent of participants experienced significant costs from Cloud performance issues: thousands of dollars per incident and/or in excess of $100 per minute of downtime. This isn't stopping companies from moving to the Cloud, of course. The same survey found that 67% of developers say that their company is hosting “business-impacting” applications in the public Cloud ...
Sadly, natural disasters often cause major devastation and wreckage. They can make a business prone to widespread power outages, transportation stoppages, and massive flooding, interrupting day-to-day physical operations and revenue streams. But recent advances in computing – specifically, the advent of Cloud computing – have made today’s data centers and the businesses they support much more resilient ...
Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about APM, analytics and mobile performance management ...
Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about the future of Analytics and Application Performance Management ...
Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about his latest report: Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?
A recent survey of IT Operations executives found the following to be the most impactful challenges facing their teams ...
If you’re thinking about how to build a sustainable APM solution and how it can be anchored into the IT culture, consider focusing on the integration touch points with existing IT processes ...
Some people like to live in the past. But while living in the past might be fine for people, it can be a disaster for an organization’s performance management systems. If the only way that your business can discover, manage and address application performance issues is after they have happened, then you are likely going to have a lot of unhappy users and customers (who may quickly become former customers) ...
As the technology services director of JMC IT, I have first hand experience transforming our company from typically reactive to a proactive, full-service MSP. Here are three lessons I learned throughout the implementation process ...
David Roth, CEO and Co-Founder of AppFirst, has provided APMdigest with his top 4 APM predictions for 2013 ...
Most security reference architectures rely on the old methods to get warnings about security issues such as use of a SIEM and a log analysis tool to interpret what is in the SIEM. However, there is a richer set of more immediate data that can help us with the problem of security notifications: APM Data ...
2013 will be another year of accelerated change in the APM market, driven by two main forces. First is the growing realization among C-level executives that highly performing applications have a direct impact on sales, productivity and customer satisfaction. Second is the availability of a new generation of APM solutions which address the needs of modern-day application delivery processes and environments. With this macro-context in mind, here are five key predictions for APM in 2013 ...
Industry experts - from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors - offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial and contradictory predictions on how APM will change and impact business in 2013 ...
