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eG Innovations is observing the following IT trends as well as the way these changes elevate the need for deep performance visibility, automated cross-silo performance correlation and diagnosis, pre-emptive problem alerting and predictive analytics so that companies can deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT ...
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?
Unified performance management breaks down the silo approach in which organizations tend to focus on a single issue within different groups, even if there may be huge implications ranging from the end user to the CEO. Instead of following the old approach of focusing on a single issue or user performance, the unified performance management strategy can be deployed across the enterprise in four key steps ...
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 ...
David Roth, CEO and Co-Founder of AppFirst, has provided APMdigest with his top 4 APM predictions for 2013 ...
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 ...
CA Technologies released its top five IT predictions for 2013 ...
If you are considering implementing an ITIL-based ITSM solution for your IT Organization, you may consider starting with the ITIL Lite bare essentials option. In today’s blog, I would like to talk about the 5 minimum components required to start an ITIL implementation ...
No, it’s not a B movie from the seventies. It’s what faces IT Operations teams today. As if it weren’t hard enough to deliver high value business services to internal and external IT users, the Operations team is bombarded with new technology and management initiatives that make life in IT even more difficult ...
Last year, the site BSMdigest was renamed APMdigest because, in the words of its editor, APM has become a "much more popular term, at least here in the USA". Which, in my opinion, is a real shame ...
The US gaming industry is a $12B market. Gaming organizations have to deploy complex networks and systems that enable them to streamline internal operations, expand new services, and improve the overall user experience. Key to this process is network and application performance. Without it, operational efficiencies, productivity, profit, and consumer confidence can all be shattered ...
It's fairly easy to incorporate "social" tactics into corporate communications and outbound marketing. But what does it actually mean to be a social IT organization? What constitutes a social IT function?
Building a bridge between IT and business starts with problem definition. Many times we can trace the gap between these functions to the fact that they both address different problems ...
We as an IT industry should be forcing the bridging of the IT and business gap. Why? The two should be one, like Peanut Butter & Jelly ...
The holiday retail season is approaching, meaning retailers will be more focused than ever on maximizing profits and making a strong return on every single one of their customers. Big Data analytics could give firms the information they need, resulting in profit or loss during the busy shopping period ...
I recently had a conversation with Marc Borbas, INETCO's VP of Marketing. He had a big sense of déjà vu reading about the Riverbed/OPNET acquisition. Having lived through an eerily similar acquisition, he had a pretty good idea what the teams at Riverbed and OPNET are about to encounter ...
When Apple talks, people listen. When Apple acts, people change their behaviors. In short, Apple does stuff that matters, both to consumers and businesses. In that light, its decision to offer Apple Link Conditioner as part of the iOS 6 developer package should be a wake-up call to mobile application developers: Apple says mobile application performance matters ...
On October 23rd, Amazon suffered another notable and very public outage — one of several major service disruptions in 2012 ...
