application performance
IT Trends and Comments for 2012
This blog appears in the Prism Micorsystem EventTracker newsletter. That posting does not include the footnoted hotlinks that are included here. The beginning of a new year marks a time of reflection on the past and anticipation of the future. The result for analysts, pundits and authors is a near irresistible urge to identify [...]
BMC Adds Competitive Muscle to End-user Experience Management
BMC’s announcement of expanded analytics and functional capabilities in its Application Performance Management[1] solution focused on faster problem resolution for root cause and impact analysis. These new capabilities and features definitely add more competitive muscle into BMC’s performance management suite. The muscle comes from enhanced real-time predictive analytics designed specifically to improve the interactive experience [...]
The Many Faces of Application Performance Management
It doesn’t take a genius to know that business applications have to perform well, particularly if those applications service a company’s customers. This is why most IT staffs understand the importance of application performance management (APM) for protecting and enabling their business’ reputation and success. But selecting APM solutions can be a very confusing experience [...]
Apica: Cloud-based Web Performance Services
Apica, an established web performance cloud service provider based in Sweden, is making a major push into the U.S. market. Far from a startup, Apica has been delivering load testing and web performance monitoring services in Europe since 2005. Their customer base of over 250 worldwide customers includes well-known names such as Price Waterhouse Coopers, [...]
ITCAM for Microsoft Applications Customer Implementation Review
No matter what is driving a project, it is important for implementers to understand how to sidestep trouble by learning from prior experiences. This paper describes the experiences of an early adopter of IBM Tivoli’s Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Microsoft Applications. ITCAM for Microsoft Applications is built using the same enterprise class base infrastructure [...]
IBM’s ISM Simulator Workshop: Linking IT to Business Operations!
For the past few years, IBM has invited a selection of customers and partners to participate in a shortened (3-hour) version of an intense all-day role-playing workshop. The make-up and focus of the workshop has changed a bit over the years as it tracks the evolution of and changes in IT, IBM and their IT [...]
Oracle $10 million contest
Bill Moran, Rich Ptak September 16, 2010 Would your company like an additional $10 million? If so, read on and you will discover that Oracle is offering this amount as a prize in a contest that they are running. Oracle asserts that their SUN cluster running a database application will outperform an IBM cluster. The [...]
Translattice: Using data delivery to provide consistent application performance to global and mobile users
Every business traveler has experienced the frustration of having good application performance from their hotel and horrible application performance from their client’s offices during their live demonstrations. Every remote or branch employee has experienced the frustration of having their applications suddenly slow to a crawl and then speed up again. The business cost of these [...]
Does SOA + Agile Programming = Crappy Business Agility?
Service oriented architectures (SOA) and agile programming techniques are about changing complex business applications at faster rates. However, true business agility is not about doing more application changes faster. True business agility is about doing more application changes faster without sacrificing the application’s performance or quality of service. From my perspective, achieving that second part [...]
AppDynamics One Shot Application Performance Management
On February 22nd, AppDynamics, Inc. ™ emerged from stealth mode, announcing that version 2 of their application performance management (APM) solution, AppDynamics, was generally available. The venture-backed company is led by executives with backgrounds at such industry success stories as Computer Associates, Mercury Interactive, Vontu, Wily and Splunk. APM is hardly a new area of [...]
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