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Software development teams face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality apps on-time and within budget. Unfortunately, according to recent study results, those teams aren’t often equipped with the right tools and appropriate technology to adequately meet the demands of customer needs at low costs and in short timeframes. This reality often translates into applications that reflect poorly on the business ...
I have found that with leaks, it doesn’t matter how fast you bail, leaks will still take you down! Although the kinds of leaks we see in today's organizations are different than a water leak, a JVM leak can still be just as disastrous ...
Application performance monitoring has become the focal point of IT operations and management. However, managing application performance is no longer the exclusive responsibility of the application team. Today we see network administration teams – that need to prove “it’s not the network” – also stepping up to participate in diagnosing application performance problems. To accomplish this, there are a number of network-based APM solutions on the market that target network engineers and operations teams. If you’re one of those team members, consider the following as you evaluate new solutions ...
In my first two blogs I discussed how the ‘new world’ IT department is raising the profile of DevOps, and how this fundamental shift is making visibility across business risk and system metrics more important than ever before. Now I'd like to talk about how you can leverage this ‘new world’ by positioning your IT department to drive innovation at your company ...
Efficient APM is all about giving insights into the inter-dependency of all devices and showing various business transactions that are taking place to realize what an end-user is experiencing ... At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is to create systems that are robust and can give real-time visibility into events and transactions ...
Most IT managers are aware of application performance problems, but sometimes they realize the issue too late to prevent the business, customer or end user from feeling the pain too. That is why the latest trend is to make application management tools aware – aware of the infrastructure, aware of the resources needed and aware of how to best deliver applications to support business services ...
CIOs are ultimately responsible for ensuring that IT investments are closely aligned with strategic business objectives ...
There are many proposed approaches to APM. One approach is collecting performance data from the application itself while the other is collecting application data from packet data by sniffing on the network. Fetching metrics from the application process itself yields valuable data such as memory, buffers, cache and other such application data which cannot be obtained from the wire. On the other hand, performance metrics from the network itself gives a good breakdown of response times and delays from the different components of the entire service ...
In too many of today’s companies, people are still focused on their own stack of information and data, without the benefit of seeing how they all impact each other ... If companies were to move away from the silo approach, they would see that the collection, aggregation and correlation of application, server, log file and process data, along with key business metrics and performance data, would give everyone the same powerful view of the business ...
During a recent family to trip to Orlando, it made me realize how lucky the crew of the Enterprise was to travel at warp speed and the use of transporters to get around, getting from point A to point B in almost no time. Compared to banking just a decade ago, the current trends in low level latency middleware environments has the same objectives ...
For the public cloud service provider that is anticipating the demand from enterprises to prove performance of application delivery with Service Level Agreements, it's important to consider the following when leveraging a performance management solution ...
Application Operations is an emerging technology management team that was formed to address a whole new set of performance management issues being driven by virtualization and the Cloud, increasing application diversity, and the agile development of custom applications ...
Businesses today are so dependent on applications that DevOps is now highly visible as it sits at the nexus between customers and business. Heavy burden? You bet, but also a tremendous opportunity to elevate the DevOps role and the entire IT department within the business ...
Asking if the Database Manager (DBM) owns end-to-end transaction performance is obviously suspect. Who would possibly think that? No one is likely to hold the DBM accountable for the customer experience - at least not at first. But the DBM does play a critical role in the overall application performance management picture ...
For an enterprise IT organization that is building a private cloud and virtualizing applications, the following are 3 key challenges to evaluate when looking for an application performance management solution ...
Application Developers are responsible for the design, configuration, implementation, integration, and tuning of all the applications running on the network - from the interface, to the underlying components, to the various services behind them. These are all factors which inevitably affect the end user experience and the customer's impression of the business ...
Application Developers are responsible for the design, configuration, implementation, integration, and tuning of all the applications running on the network - from the interface, to the underlying components, to the various services behind them. These are all factors which inevitably affect the end user experience and the customer's impression of the business ...
Performance management FOR the cloud helps you, the cloud provider, deliver better cloud performance, maximum service availability, and superior customer satisfaction. The performance management system also helps you right-size your infrastructure, so that you can achieve the necessary returns for your investment in the cloud infrastructure ...
Much has been said about both the challenges and opportunities of Big Data. As in most things, it is really nothing new. The idea of an overwhelming amount of data and no way to make rapid sense of it has been around since the early days of IT ...
Managing virtualization and storage in context is becoming critical and is helping to break down the strong silos between virtualization and storage that have persisted from the physical server and storage days. The new landscape that has developed around the virtual environment is driving convergence and helping bring virtualization and storage closer together ...
