2012 Trends: Monitoring Gets More Complicated
Today, I received the Forrester Report, Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011 by Jean-Pierre Garbani. It’s worthwhile read for anyone interested in Applications Performance Management and I’ll be writing a few posts about it in the coming weeks. One thing stuck out at me right away was the growing complexity of the data center and what that meant to IT Ops. Right up front in the Executive Summary Garbani explained that it used to be enough to simply monitor those spots you knew to be the weakest links in the delivery chain, but he feels that is not enough...
read moreEvery Second Counts on the Web
When visitors come to your web site, how fast your page loads has to matter. It’s reasonable to assume that the slower it loads, the more likely you are to loose your attention-deficit visitors as they drift on to the next shiny thing that catches their attention. In that context, shaving seconds off of load time really matters and application performance monitoring can help you understand and attack the cause of delays. We talk a lot about baselines on this blog, so if you want a baseline to compare your site, consider studying the research released this week by AlertSite, which is...
read moreCould APM Tools Help Uncle Sam Count IT Resources?
ReadWriteWeb reported this week on a new initiative by Amazon Web Services to provide secure storage for US government customers. It’s all well and good for the government to off load some storage to the Cloud to save the tax paying public some dough, but the government faces a bigger problem; how to get the big picture view its current set of assets. Perhaps Applications Performance Management (APM) monitoring tools could help. According to the RWW article, a government report found that US government data centers were using less than 30 percent of their capacity. Not sure how that...
read moreAPM and Testing Taste Great Together
You are about to purchase a new enterprise tool, and you are charged with figuring out if it has the chops to handle your company’s traffic. What’s the best way to test it? Well, you might have a suite of testing tools of course and nice lab set up for this purpose, but did you know you can use your monitoring software as a testing tool? As we wrote the other day, applications performance monitoring (APM) tools can help you understand the big picture of your organization’s IT infrastructure, and just as you can watch how transactions move across your existing system, you can...
read moreGetting the Big Picture View of Your Environment Could Save Your Butt
One of the biggest challenges facing IT today is understanding how the myriad of systems across your organization fit and work together to identify the source of a problem when it occurs. In many cases, it takes a patchwork of programs and tools to understand just what’s happening and even then, it’s a difficult prospect. That’s when having good application performance monitoring (APM) tools can help in a big way. In most instances, you probably have a clear idea of when a process fails, but it’s much harder to see the impact that failure has on your business. If you...
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