This week’s featured articles includes contributions from Pete Golden of APMDigest, Charlie Betz of EMA research, Cameron Laird of Real User Monitoring, and more Continue reading
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News of the Week in Application Performance Management and IT Operations – July 13
Including articles about infrastructure trends, Oracle Forms and IT skills, here are our highlights from this week’s news in the world of Application Performance Management and IT operations: 1) Ptak/Noel explained the lessons learned from the Amazon outage and how … Continue reading
Mastering P2V: Best Practices for Maintaining Service Levels upon Migration
No doubt you are familiar with the established benefits of virtualization: improved efficiency and resource availability at a lower overall cost. Many IT departments, however, have discovered that virtualizing applications can create new and unexpected performance problems. Continue reading
The True Constants of Cloud-Based Application Performance Management
We are seeing more and more awareness of application performance management these days in less mature IT organizations who until recently were solely focused on infrastructure performance. New sites that are dedicated to helping those less familiar with the art … Continue reading
3 Big Trends on My Mind
It’s safe to say we’re in the midst of big trends emerging in the IT industry. Technologies continue to develop, particularly mobile and cloud. The overall economic health of US and Europe remained precarious, forcing organizations to continue trimming fat … Continue reading
Five Important IT Capacity Management Trends for 2012
The increase in virtualization and cloud computing has significantly changed the scope and complexity of capacity management. Forecasting hardware needs is no longer enough. You must understand and optimize your business services, applications, and infrastructure through these new platforms. Continue reading
Sometimes a Performance Problem Can’t Be Reproduced In a Test Bed
I attended the Greater Boston Computer Measurement Group’s fall conference a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of topics discussed. However, among the plethora of bullet points described, one value proposition sticks out in my mind. During a … Continue reading
EMA Webinar: Measuring User Experience in the Cloud
Cloud computing brings with it many benefits, especially lower IT costs and increased flexibility. However, the dynamic, hybrid nature of Cloud environments require enterprises to re-think their existing IT management processes and tools. Applications that perform poorly and fail to meet service levels — whether on premise or in the Cloud — can cause users to churn and revenues to drop. Continue reading
CMG in the Clouds
April fool’s day this year brought with it the Rocky Mountain Computer Measurement Group (CMG) conference. This is the best view of any CMG show I have been at: David Halbig from First Data Corp. (also the guy who organizes the show) … Continue reading
Cloud Performance Management Driven by Continuous Change
There are several trends affecting the way companies deal with monitoring infrastructure and applications for availability and performance: Agile development – drives frequent application rollouts and code pushes into production, without proper tools to enable agile rollouts Virtualization – demands new tools … Continue reading