APMdigest welcomes Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group, to the APMdigest blogging team on The BSM Blog.

Larry Dragich, Director of Enterprise Application Services at the Auto Club Group (ACG), has 22 years of IT experience. He has served in an IT leadership role at the Auto Club Group (ACG) for the past nine years.

Larry has been working in the Application Performance Management (APM) space since 2006, when he built the Enterprise Systems Management team which is now the focal point for the IT performance monitoring and capacity planning activities at ACG.

Larry serves with overall accountability to optimize the capability of the IT infrastructure to deliver high availability and optimal performance. His team relies on a heterogeneous solution with multiple product suites playing key roles in the Application Performance Management space in order to gain visibility to support essential business services and processes.

Larry is actively involved with industry leaders sharing knowledge of APM technologies from best practices and technical workflows to resource allocation and approaches for implementation of APM Strategies.

He is also a contributing editor on Wikipedia focused on defining the APM space and how it ties into the critical ITIL processes many companies are now using.

You can contact Larry on LinkedIn.

Click here to read Larry Dragich's first blog: The Anatomy of APM – 4 Foundational Elements to a Successful Strategy

Click here to read Larry Dragich's recent article on APMdigest: Prioritizing Gartner's APM Model