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What Cloud Computing Really Means
Explore SOA World Magazine (Apr 19 2012)
Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," said Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring. The problem, according to InfoWorld, is that everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing...
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Making Virtualization & Application Performance Worth the Investment
Explore SOA World Magazine (Apr 12 2012)
The primary business benefit of virtualization is achieving the highest utilization possible with the available hardware and reducing unnecessary capital expenditure on new hardware - both of which are impossible without a capacity optimization process. Armed with comprehensive and up-to-the-minute information, you can make informed decisions to transition physical systems onto your virtualized infrastructure, as well as to deploy new virtual devices as efficiently as possible. In this way, you can avoid resource contention problems that can drag down performance, while also ensuring you get the best use of your hardware investments...
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Data Mining and Data Virtualization
Explore SOA World Magazine (Apr 12 2012)
Data Mining helps organizations to discover new insights from existing data, so that predictive techniques can be applied towards various business needs. The following are the typical characteristics of data mining which leads to faster application performance. The model can be used within any SQL statement...
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Return on Data: The New Business Imperative (Part 1)
Explore SOA World Magazine (Mar 22 2012)
Innovative CIOs are actually rethinking their application environments, from just focusing on the application - the code, middleware, infrastructure, etc., to a new focus on the underlying data that supports the application. This new focus enables them to release budget and complexity from sustaining their apps, do what they do much better when it comes to enhancing their apps, and do brand new things they couldn't do before within their applications that will give them the competitive edge they are looking for...
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Do Management Consultants Obscure IT Transformation?
Explore SOA World Magazine (Mar 19 2012)
Somewhere in between the foggy mists of management consultancy jargon and the babbling verbiage of business analytics specialists there may, quite possibly, lay an untouched land where real business change discussions take place. The problem with business change and IT innovation is that it too often succumbs to the hijacked efforts of non-technical management figures who fail to understand the real issues at the coalface of application transformation, IT performance management and data optimization...
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Cloud Computing: Appirio Gets a Whopping $60 Million Investment
Explore SOA World Magazine (Mar 15 2012)
It's got 300 customers including plums like the City of Los Angeles, Facebook, Twitter, Flextronics, Home Depot, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, NetApp, New York University, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters and VMware. It may be the largest single round investment ever put in a cloud start-up. At least Appirio thinks so...
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Cloud-Based Applications Can Cause Loss of Millions
Explore SOA World Magazine (Mar 14 2012)
Aberdeen Research conducted an poll and reported that nearly 60% of the organizations said that they were not happy with the performance of business critical applications and also the responders said that the application performance issues are costing corporate revenue by 9%.
This article provides an approach and reference framework to build near real-time high volume load simulation for testing the large scaled high performance based services or solutions...
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APM vs NPM. 2nd Round K.O.
Explore SOA World Magazine (Mar 13 2012)
Round Two – Last time I wrote a blog comparing APM versus network-based APM tools, which I still consider NPM at it’s core regardless of what some critics and competitors claim. Let me make one thing clear though, NPM is great for equipping IT network administrators to see how fast or slow data is traveling through the pipes of their application. Unfortunately, network-based APM tools simply cannot provide App Ops granular visibility into the application runtime when isolating bottlenecks go beyond the system level and it’s final destination – the end user’s browser...
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Application Performance Management (APM) vs. Network Performance Management (NPM)
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 23 2012)
Another three-letter acronym I see frequently mixed in with APM is NPM which stands for Network Performance Management. At first glance they look very similar. The distinction appears very subtle with just a one letter difference, but it speaks volumes because their core technologies and approaches to monitoring application performance are fundamentally different...
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Compuware Supports IBM WebSphere Environments with dynaTrace 4.1
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 15 2012)
Compuware on Monday released Compuware dynaTrace 4.1, an application performance management (APM) solution to provide full support for IBM WebSphere Message Broker. dynaTrace 4.1 also adds to its User Experience Management (UEM) capabilities, enhances visualization and integrates with Compuware Gomez Real-User Monitoring - Data Center....
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Cloud Application Performance Management via Nouns and Verbs
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 11 2012)
Now all this talk of "inside the cloud" gets a bit woolly and out of hand, which is why I like to try to be more specific (if long winded) and say instead:
"Application testing must now migrate to a point where it is executed inside the data center housing the hosted instances of virtualized application servers and their supporting volumes of data, a Software-as-a-Service model known as cloud computing."...
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Mitigating the Risks of IT Change
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 8 2012)
Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, consolidating data centers, cloud computing, virtualization, and new application deployments. But in many cases these projects are major undertakings that consume significant time and resources and are fraught with risk...
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Challenges and Best Practices for Load Testing with the Cloud (Part 2)
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 6 2012)
You can also employ application performance management (APM) solutions to identify bottlenecks in the code. These techniques work reasonably well when there is a single source for the performance slow-down. When there are multiple problems, both inside and ...
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Do You Need to Monitor Your Mobile Apps?
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 5 2012)
The increasing adoption of mobile applications as part of a company’s online services leads to the question of whether we need to monitor it like other parts of our IT infrastructure. Before talking about how to monitor them we need to figure out whether and how much to invest in monitoring. As with classical applications, not every application is worth the effort of detailed production monitoring...
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Stop Buying Database Licenses: You Have All the Capacity You Need
Explore SOA World Magazine (Feb 2 2012)
Once the application goes into production and data accumulates in key areas supporting mission-critical business processes, performance starts to take a hit...
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Journalists Confuse People About Cloud
Explore SOA World Magazine (Jan 30 2012)
For private clouds, they actually use a very different technology stack based on VMware, whereas their public Cloud Servers is built on Xen. But again, their private clouds are for their customers, not for their own internal use...
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Patterns for Achieving High Application Performance
Explore SOA World Magazine (Jan 6 2012)
Application performance is a term that is used to describe multiple scenarios. When someone says I need a High Performance Application, it might mean any number of things.
Depending on the application performance objective the patterns employed to achieve it are different and it is important to find the right approach to the solution that meets the objectives. Let's examine some of the common patterns that can help achieve any variety of application performance objectives...
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Application Performance and Antipatterns
Explore SOA World Magazine (Jan 4 2012)
Any application you pick up, there are some issues – big or small. There will be copy-paste code, mistakes, algorithms which could have better thought through. But what distinguishes an antipattern from these normal errors is that like patterns these antipatterns are recurring throughout the code base. In my recent experience in dealing with performance issues, I had observed certain recurrent themes that are undermining the overall application performance. Most of these antipatterns are well documented but it seems we do not learn from others mistakes. We need to make our own mistakes. I am recounting some of the common patterns ...
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Are You Doing Enough For Free in 2012?
Explore SOA World Magazine (Jan 2 2012)
An 18 year technology veteran, Brian Gracely is Director of Global Solutions at EMC. An active participant in the virtualization and cloud computing communities, Brian was named a "Top 100" Cloud Computing blogger by Cloud Computing Journal.
Brian said, "Throughout the year, the #1 non-CloudComputing conversation I had with people was centered around them asking for advice about the next steps in their career. While most of these people were associated with the IT industry (various types of skills), the conversations also include people from other industries. I try not to give advice, but rather use discussions like that as ...
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Will PaaS Finally Bring Open Source Love to the Enterprise?
Explore SOA World Magazine (Dec 14 2011)
When we start exploring these technologies in detail, we will quickly realize that they could have a profound impact on the enterprise software industry, changing the economics and cultural aspects of the open source model...
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7 Ways Application Performance Management Prevents Profit Drain
Explore SOA World Magazine (Dec 6 2011)
When the right application performance management system is doing its job behind the scenes, there are processes which are going on silently that make a tremendous difference. In 2010, 60 percent of the businesses using IT technology were reporting that their lack of APM was draining away 9 percent of their corporate revenues. That was a significant loss of profits. How does APM stop this kind of drain?...
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Is Your Cloud Vendor Optimized for Business-Critical Applications?
Explore SOA World Magazine (Dec 2 2011)
Generic cloud infrastructure is insufficient for the demands of business-critical applications. IT executives seeking the efficiencies of cloud computing for critical enterprise applications need to evaluate the overall application expertise of their cloud infrastructure providers and assess their application expertise and their ability and flexibility to optimize their cloud infrastructure for business-critical applications...
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Building Your Private Cloud Without Degrading Application Performance
Explore SOA World Magazine (Oct 25 2011)
Once the server is virtual, workload balancing to alleviate hot spots and avoid application performance degradation can now be done electronically by moving VMs over the network to alternate servers. Ideally, this workload balancing is done while the ...
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5 Cloud Deployment Pitfalls to Avoid
Explore SOA World Magazine (Oct 17 2011)
Cloud computing represents a compelling new way of providing business agility, flexibility and time-to-value. But companies are learning the hard way that deploying cloud-based applications without considering the unique characteristics of the cloud is resulting in user frustration, low adoption rates, reduced revenue and ultimately failure to achieve the predicted ROI...
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