Nir Livni, Product Management Director at Correlsense, writes about IT operations, citing W. Edwards Deming who said “In God we trust; all others must bring data.” I like watching the series “24,” though I can’t really explain why. Every time … Continue reading
Tag Archives: transaction management
Transaction Management – Linking Business and IT
Transaction management is the IT process that links the business process with the IT infrastructure. By tracing transactions, you know where problems exist. Most businesses have IT–a complex infrastructure of hardware components that interact in order to provide a service … Continue reading
Transaction Management–The Importance of Understanding the Transaction Behavior Model
One of my chores at home as a husband is doing the food shopping (I also take out the trash, play with the kids, and even cook Saturday evening dinner – truly husband of the year!). Food shopping should actually … Continue reading
The Top 3 Reasons an Application Hangs
Do you experience application hang problems? If so, read this article to discover the top 3 reasons applications hang and cause slow performance. If you have been in the IT industry long enough, you probably know this story well. The … 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
The Evolution of Transaction Management – Part 2
Transaction management tools monitor the entire system, not just singular components. This article discusses how transaction management enables true availability. Transaction management is a natural continuation of the past 15 year evolution of IT systems management. In the last few … Continue reading
The Evolution of Transaction Management – Part 1
Transaction management has evolved to a fourth generation. Based on a podcast by Doug McClure, this article covers the end-to-end transaction management evolution. Information technology contributes to business efficiency like nothing else. Managing complex IT systems requires constant innovation; systems … Continue reading
Java Bytecode Instrumentation Limitations
A real transaction management product needs to follow through the transaction between different types of application-related components such as proxies, Web servers, app servers (Java and non-Java), message brokers, queues, databases and so forth. In order to do that, you … Continue reading
Finally–The BSM Promise is Fulfilled
Business applications depend on complex IT infrastructures, and performance problems can have a significant impact on a company’s bottom line. This is why IT organizations are continuously seeking ways to understand how business is affected by IT. As per ITIL v3: “Business … Continue reading
Missing Pants, Big Laughs
Recently, I had some business meetings out of town. I packed my bag furiously, making sure I had the essentials. Toothbrush? Check. Tie and belt? Check and check. Imagine my surprise when I got to the hotel that night and … Continue reading