The Application Performance Monitor: News and Opinion by IT Operations for IT Operations
Freedom, responsibility, and testing: lessons for DevOps
Previous installments of "IT Ops" have argued we should borrow applicable tools or practices from development or data specialists. Publication a few weeks ago of "How to Adjust to the Changing Face of Software Testing" brings testing into position to make its contribution.… Continue reading →
Industry News 
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May 20, 2013 - Gartner: Private PaaS is for Real
Private PaaS is not just a mere technological fad, especially to Gartner analyst Eric Knipp. He… →
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May 20, 2013 - IT Operations News: IT Doesn’t Matter?
IT Doesn't Matter, in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review predicted the rise of… →
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May 17, 2013 - ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool
Large organizations still rely on ESBs (enterprise service buses) to successfully integrate their… →
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May 17, 2013 - Ecosystem Cloud: Predicting the Outcome Before the Data Is In
How are IT organizations of varying sizes planning to deal with the cloud ecosystem and… →
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May 16, 2013 - How to Talk Like a CIO
In today's complicated IT world being a CIO may be harder than ever. How can managers effectively… →
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May 16, 2013 - Internet of Things: Expectation of Privacy in Big Data Era
To what level has big data analytics compromised internet privacy? And to what end do the end… →
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May 16, 2013 - Operational Siloes Hinder Effectiveness of Cloud Applications, Survey Says
Operational siloes are impacting the effectiveness of cloud applications according to recent survey… →
Recent IT Ops Articles
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May 17, 2013 - VMware redefines its DevOps strategy for availability monitoring; so should you
Application Performance Management (APM) is an utter waste of effort--or an absolute necessity,… →
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May 7, 2013 - Two good independent surveys of Application Performance Management practices
Two recent thoughtful overviews, by Bernd Harzog and the staff at SearchNetworking, respectively, do… →
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May 3, 2013 - “Performance” means something new in a rationalized cloud architecture
Are your operations mediocre? By the definition of mediocre, most are. If so, you have a greater… →
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Apr 29, 2013 - Networking progress is more than just incremental bandwidth and lower prices
Networking is important--truly important. … →
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Apr 26, 2013 - Make the many ROIs work for you: correct analysis of service-oriented architecture
"Return-on-investment" (ROI) is so important and frequent in business conversations that… →
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Apr 16, 2013 - High-profile RFP application in Washington a showcase for mash-up approach
"How Washington State handled a flood of applications to be its 'pot czar'" is the most important… →
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Apr 11, 2013 - Standardize the Datacenter: Single-Source for Success
"[S]tandardize on a homogeneous infrastructure" is hard advice for me to hear. Nearly my whole… →