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10 APM Capabilities Every IT Manager Should Have
Explore APMdigest (Apr 19 2012)
One of the common questions that every IT manager asks on a regular basis is, “Why is my application so slow today when everything was fine yesterday?” APM is the only way to truly answer that question, and it is one of the must-have tools for every IT manager. With this APM imperative in mind, the following are 10 capabilities every IT manager should look for when choosing an APM solution...
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Correlating BAM and APM Metrics - Gartner Weighs In
Explore APMdigest (Apr 18 2012)
Because of the size and complexity of some enterprise application deployments, it can take some time just to incorporate and deploy analytics for the IT infrastructure and CE metrics. Meanwhile the executive or line of business owner who is funding the project is saying “What’s in this for me? Where’s my view of the business?”
An alternative approach that is gaining momentum is to take a “top down” approach where predictive analytics is applied initially to BAM metrics – giving business executives visibility into the “behavior” of their business with composite application health scores.
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The Anatomy of APM – 4 Foundational Elements to a Successful Strategy
Explore APMdigest (Apr 18 2012)
When looking at APM at 20,000 feet, four foundational elements come into view: Top Down Monitoring (RUM), Bottom Up Monitoring (Infrastructure), Incident Management Process (ITIL) and Reporting (Metrics). Let's look at each...
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Application Performance Management and Data Overload
Explore APMdigest (Apr 18 2012)
A number of technology initiatives have led to a growth in the data generated by APM solutions. The solutions are providing end-to-end application and service monitoring, covering every tier from network to business transactions...
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Application Performance Impacts Your Bottom Line
Explore APMdigest (Apr 9 2012)
Regardless of which class of applications is in question, applications don't always perform optimally — especially now that they're increasingly delivered via the cloud and accessed from a variety of devices and platforms. Worse yet, the majority of problems go undetected until end users complain. The result is a major hit to productivity, customer loyalty and the bottom line. Simply put, improving application performance lowers costs and increases revenue...
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Correlating BAM and APM Metrics - Gartner Weighs In
Explore APMdigest (Mar 29 2012)
Because of the size and complexity of some enterprise application deployments, it can take some time just to incorporate and deploy analytics for the IT infrastructure and CE metrics. Meanwhile the executive or line of business owner who is funding the project is saying “What’s in this for me? Where’s my view of the business?”
An alternative approach that is gaining momentum is to take a “top down” approach where predictive analytics is applied initially to BAM metrics – giving business executives visibility into the “behavior” of their business with composite application health scores...
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Prioritizing Gartner's APM Model
Explore APMdigest (Mar 15 2012)
Gartner has defined five dimensions for managing application performance. So where do you start with APM? Consider this APM Conceptual Framework to help prioritize your next actions...
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Infrastructure Management - Do You Still Care?
Explore APMdigest (Mar 12 2012)
In a June 2011 article in CIOInsight, interestingly titled, “IT Investment Trends: Infrastructure Back in the Mix” they note, “CIO Insight’s latest IT Investment Trends study shows renewed interest in the fundamentals of the IT infrastructure. This is refreshing amid today’s ethereal talk about clouds and virtual machines.”
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New Survey: Performance Management in Transformational IT Environments
Explore APMdigest (Feb 29 2012)
Here are the key survey findings: 1) IT operations professionals struggle to manually diagnose root cause problems in heterogeneous service environments – 54% of IT professionals surveyed said their single biggest performance management challenge is identifying the root cause of slow application performance...
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7 APM Requirements for Cloud-Readiness
Explore APMdigest (Feb 28 2012)
Just what does it mean to be Cloud-Ready? We believe cloud-readiness requires the following 7 criteria...
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Why Your APM Solutions May Not Be “Cloud-Ready”
Explore APMdigest (Feb 21 2012)
Public Cloud provides a layer of abstraction between the functionality of a service and its delivery, and Public Cloud customers are finding that, while Cloud services are easy to consume, they are not as easy to govern and manage. This abstraction layer means that traditional Application Performance Management (APM) solutions may not be as useful as they once were. As a result, many CIOs are finding it necessary to reevaluate management portfolios for Cloud-readiness...
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Moving Into the Real World: Predictive Analytics Improves Decision Making
Explore APMdigest (Feb 9 2012)
A major and rapidly evolving area of focus of this energy is the application of predictive analytics to anticipate and solve tough business and operational problems that threaten the quality of delivered services...
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APM SLAs in the Cloud: Is There a Rainbow on the Horizon?
Explore APMdigest (Feb 9 2012)
How do you hold your Cloud provider responsible for slow performance of your applications. How do you avoid the next catastrophic outage and ensure you have SLAs to penalize your cloud provider for sloppy application performance...
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IDC: Predictive Analytics Goes Mainstream in 2012
Explore APMdigest (Feb 8 2012)
Operational complexity in virtualized, scale-out, and cloud environments and composite Web-based applications will drive demand for automated analytic performance management and optimization tools that can quickly discover, filter, correlate, remediate, and ideally prevent performance and availability slowdowns, outages, and other service-interrupting incidents...
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Survey Results: The Enterprise Struggle With Transaction Availability
Explore APMdigest (Feb 2 2012)
Application transaction systems have become more complex. How complex? 84 percent of companies have five or more major technologies within their applications, and 64 percent of organizations juggle a staggering seven or more. Note the use of the word “major,” here because applications are no longer as simplistic as a Web server, App server and Database. The drive for better CRM, ERP, BI, e-Commerce and other innovations represent a new order that demands far more command over performance than in the past...
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Predictive Analytics In Your Data Center
Explore APMdigest (Jan 12 2012)
You need better visibility into you how your applications and business services are correlated with your dynamic infrastructure, so you can track irregular behavior to topology changes. And, you need an easier way of determining acceptable thresholds and real anomalies.
Much like the advanced analytics used by today’s hurricane forecasters, Predictive Analytics offers a smarter way to manage IT so you can anticipate IT problems before they occur...
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Gartner's 5 Dimensions of APM
Explore APMdigest (Dec 23 2011)
Gartner's recently published Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring defines “five distinct dimensions of, or perspectives on, end-to-end application performance” which are essential to APM, listed below.
Gartner points out that although each of these five technologies are distinct, and often deployed by different stakeholders, there is “a high-level, circular workflow that weaves the five dimensions together.”...
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Taking the Plunge Into Application Performance Management
Explore APMdigest (Dec 21 2011)
Just 10 years ago, business and IT directors thought protecting their Exchange environment was overkill and a waste of time, money and resources. The view of countless Heads of IT was simple, email was not vital to their business and staff can use the telephone, direct mail or even their personal emails if they need to. How times have changed ...
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Another Look At Gartner's 5 Dimensions of APM
Explore APMdigest (Dec 21 2011)
Gartner's recently published Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring defines “five distinct dimensions of, or perspectives on, end-to-end application performance” which are essential to APM, listed below.
Gartner points out that although each of these five technologies are distinct, and often deployed by different stakeholders, there is “a high-level, circular workflow that weaves the five dimensions together.”...
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Preparing Your Application for the Cloud
Explore APMdigest (Dec 21 2011)
The best practice here is called an application audit and it is used to determine three types of baselines for an application while under load. These include: configuration, application and performance baselines, all of which help confirm that you have an appropriate monitoring configuration, sufficient visibility to solve performance problems, and have identified the key response-time and execution frequency of the major transactions or internal components of the target application. But where do you begin?...
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Delivering Deep Insights Into End User Application Performance Experience
Explore APMdigest (Dec 21 2011)
Today's application infrastructures involve many servers, routers, switches, load balancers, and more. In any given application, information moves among these different devices. To understand fully what is happening every time the data moves among application or network elements, you need tools that can track and capture transaction information in real time and at a very granular level...
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12 Predictions for 2012 | APMdigest: Where Application Performance Management, BSM, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Meet
Explore APMdigest (Dec 20 2011)
Industry experts from analyst and consulting firms and all the top vendors offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial predictions on how Application Performance Management and related BSM and ITSM technologies will change and impact business in 2012...
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