Ready, Aim, Fire: The Case for Cloud Planning

Explore community.ca.com (Feb 2 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

A little more than a year ago I presented a session on cloud computing at a CIO conference where I highlighted the three key issues prevent cloud computing adoption: security/privacy, availability and performance. However, in doing some research for a session I gave at CA World this past November, I realized that things have changed...

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Comment Mentions:   Cloud Computing   SaaS

Service Assurance & Application Performance in a Consumer Driven World

Explore community.ca.com (Jan 11 2012) Application Performance

To deliver services that meet user expectations, you have to know where the potential trouble spots are in advance. IT managers need to be able to follow the path of transactions as they pass from the mobile apps or browsers, through back-end systems that support processing, and back again. This is the only way to eliminate the division between monitoring the application and the infrastructure. By relentlessly monitoring transaction flows, the IT team can isolate the choke points, address them proactively, and eliminate finger-pointing between functional teams over responsibility for performance issues... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Application Performance Management   IDC

IT Problem Management Sits In A Lonely Corner

Explore community.ca.com (Dec 19 2011) Application Performance

Let's be honest, root cause analysis can be boring. "Who wants to deal with that all the time? I'd rather just restore service and move on. What's that you say? Eliminating the root cause could prevent further outages and free IT from dealing with critical incidents? OK then. We need to do Problem Management." So why aren't organizations focused on Problem Management?... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Root Cause

10 Virtualization and Cloud Predictions for 2012

Explore community.ca.com (Dec 15 2011) IT Topics

I am inspired to throw my exceedingly fallible hat into the ring with my predictions, specifically for virtualization and cloud. I seem to have had a decent run of predictions last year...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CA Technologies   Public Cloud   Virtualization

Looking Back At 2011 Virtualization & Cloud Predictions

Explore community.ca.com (Dec 5 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

Overall, I think I did pretty well last year. Out of the seven predictions, I got four unequivocally correct, and three were a push. Reassuringly - and perhaps surprisingly - none were way off the mark...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Compuware   Microsoft

Composite Application Problems & Application Performance

Explore community.ca.com (Nov 28 2011) Application Performance

As the paradigm has shifted to composite applications, then fidelity requirements of monitoring them have increased to the point where the dependent components and external services need to be monitored at a much deeper level. There may be many potential throats to choke depending on which component of the application is causing the problem...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Application Performance Management   SaaS

Fundamental IT Management

Explore community.ca.com (Nov 10 2011) IT Topics

Fundamental IT management processes such as impact and root cause analysis, change and configuration management, and analysis of service level availability require IT staff to explore complex IT structures using models that are laboriously slow and hard to navigate...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Root Cause

Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

Explore community.ca.com (Oct 27 2011)

While travelling back from VMworld EMEA last week, I stopped at London and visited with a fantastic CA Technologies customer and partner, Logicalis UK. Logicalis UK is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, part of a group that employs over 2,000 people worldwide, with annualized revenues in excess of $1 billion. Logicalis... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Hyper-V

Avoiding Islands of Virtualization

Explore community.ca.com (Oct 19 2011) Cloud & Virtualization

Virtualization has been widely embraced by IT over the last several years. This has led to significant cost savings but also has had unintended consequences. It's not unusual for one company or department to have multiple installations of VMware deployed. We call these "VMware Islands" because they each require their own management. To build a bridge between these islands you need...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Data Center   Virtualization

The Path To The Cloud Means New IT Expectations

Explore community.ca.com (Sep 7 2011)

The complexity of hosting business services in a private cloud, the importance of making sure those business services perform well, and the imperative to maximize the investment in cloud technologies make for a tough balancing act that cries out for an automated solution. VMware customers exploring cloud options or considering a move to vSphere 5 need to look at solutions that will automatically place workloads, balance virtual environments and optimize them for performance, saturation and cost. Ideally, the solution will also look forward and predict optimal configuration, since the initial placement of workloads is only optimal until something changes, and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Private Cloud   VSphere

When It Comes to Cloud, Have You Thought Of Choice?

Explore community.ca.com (Jul 27 2011)

Everyone's talking cloud these days, but ask 100 people in IT what type of cloud computing model they have implemented, or plan to implement, and you'll probably get 100 different answers - public, private, hybrid; SaaS, PaaS, IaaS; cloud-in-a-box vs. dynamic data center. The list goes on and on. And that's the way it should be because when it comes to cloud, one size does not fit...   (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon   Cloud Computing   Data Center