1. AI and the Future of Application & Infrastructure Management Explore Featured Editorials (Apr 4 2012) Gartner's Will Capelli has a new blog (AI in IAM) where he explores the role of artificial intelligence in Infrastructure and Application Management. In a recent post he points out the trend toward two tiered analytics. In the first tier application and infrastructure monitoring tools structure the data in the dimensions of time and relationship within the IT architecture.  In the second tier products like Prelert use predictive analysis and machine learning techniques to uncover behavior patterns that IT can use to improve operational efficiency and reduce service incidents.  With Will's usual flair, he relates this approach to ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Prelert   Artificial Intelligence   Analytics

2. Gartner: Machines make better decisions than humans Explore Featured Editorials (Oct 24 2011) Are we nearing the day when machines replace middle management decision makers? Gartner analyst Nigel Rayner argues that people rely too much on hunch, experience, relationships and financial incentives ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Prelert   Analytics

3. Is Your IT Shop Really Any Better than RIM’s? Explore Featured Editorials (Oct 17 2011) Days into its Blackberry outage RIM's CTO admits that they still don’t know what caused the crash.  But RIM may be only the most recent symptom of a spreading crisis in the world of cloud-based services... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Prelert   Microsoft

4. Can Big Data Analytics Prevent Application Outages? Explore Featured Editorials (Sep 22 2011) If Amazon, Bank of America and Microsoft can’t contain service outages, the rest of us have much to fear.  Research indicates average recovery times between 4 and 72 hrs...  (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon   Analytics

5. How 9/11 Gave Birth to New Application Performance Technology Explore Featured Editorials (Sep 14 2011) In the days after September 11, 2001, it became apparent that the pattern recognition technologies that the United States used to fight terrorism were woefully inadequate for contemporary threats.  Finding the needle in the haystack depended on identifying patterns of such features.  Pattern recognition technologies are making their debut in application performance management. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Prelert   Application Performance Management

6. @VMware: Got Your Head in the Cloud on App Performance? Explore Featured Editorials (Sep 6 2011) Listening to Paul Maritz’s keynote at VMworld last week, it seemed virtualization is the key to all of our IT concerns. Did you know it will replace all your mainframes, Linux and Unix boxes and your PCs as well? And don’t worry about the apps that run on all that equipment says Maritz, it’s all going to be in a virtualized cloud soon enough. Apparently VMware now have their sights set on replacing mainframes, mid-range systems, UNIX, Linux, and PCs.  There vision is that we will all rely on apps and data hosted in a virtualized cloud ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Application Performance Management   APM   Virtualization

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