I am so excited to have SharePath 3.0 released today. We’ve invested a lot of time and effort to create it and I must tell you that the outcome looks awesome! Continue reading →

An interesting story hit the wire regarding Heroku’s cloud application platform and the add-ons the company offers for application performance monitoring. The story stems from an incident with one of Heroku’s customers, Rap Genius. The publication VentureBeat interviewed Tom Lehman, Rap Genius co-founder, and outlined the basis of the dispute. Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of the ABC television show “Shark Tank” and what it reveals about human nature, business, and in this quirky instance, application performance management. The main premise of Shark Tank is the following: incredibly ambitious and bright … Continue reading →

In the last year I have written several blog posts about improving application speed and overall IT performance (and I promise, it has not been solely at the request of the Marketing team). I am simply obsessed with performance, it … Continue reading →

I know many of our readers must be sick of the “cloud computing” hype by now. If you’ve only heard the discussion from the point of view of some IT bloggers, marketers, and vendors you’d be led to believe the cloud is all benefit with few costs or risks associated with it. The reality for IT Operations and Development teams stuck with the task of implementing cloud based services is much different. Continue reading →

We’d like to congratulate AppDynamics on their recent round of financing.  The size of the round is further validation that the APM market is an exciting one to be in. While products like AppDynamics are primarily designed to meet the … Continue reading →

A recent article in InformationWeek (What’s Killing APM) claimed the application performance management industry is dying. Specifically: “App performance management is seen as less important than it was two years ago, partly because vendors haven’t kept up.” Art Wittmann, the … Continue reading →

In today’s increasingly complex IT world, change is the only constant. IT must be proactive in their performance management approach in order to succeed in such an environment. How do you stay proactive in you approach? One strategy is to employ tools which automatically adapt and configure to your environment. Otherwise, you may be left with monitoring blind spots. Continue reading →

Riverbed Technology, a WAN optimization firm, recently announced a definitive agreement to acquire OPNET, an application performance management (APM) provider. http://www.apmdigest.com/riverbed-to-acquire-opnet This move represents the full convergence of network performance management (NPM) with application performance management (APM), a phenomenon which … Continue reading →