Improve Your ROI by Monitoring User Experience and Reducing Data
ROI is becoming an increasingly important consideration for IT pros as the environment they work in become more complex and harder to manage. This trend is gathering more attention and has recently been the focus of numerous discussions within the APM market. APMdigest published an article about 12 ways to gain faster ROI from APM which consolidates contributions from experts throughout the industry (Gartner, EMA, and Ovum). Tips include choosing the tool that will be most relevant for the job it must accomplish, considering the ease of deploying and managing the performance monitoring tool...
read moreServer Market Declines for Second Straight Quarter Says IDC
In a somewhat surprising turn, the market for traditional servers fell for the second straight quarter, IDC reported this week. First a look at the numbers (as they say on Marketplace). According to a statement from IDC, “Factory revenue in the worldwide server market decreased 2.4% year over year to $11.8 billion in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).” And sales were in decline everywhere whether it was in the US, Europe or even Asia where China has reportedly been spending more than a billion dollars a quarter on servers. At a time when cloud computing and Big Data are all the...
read moreGetting Beyond Big Data Hype to Understand the Data
It’s clear that we’re collecting more data, but the question is to what end? Whether it’s web analytics, web performance analytics or any other type of data, it doesn’t do us any good until we actually make use of that data to learn something. And it makes sense that at least some of that data analysis is going to take place in the cloud. Why? Because the cloud can scale like crazy and there’s one thing we know about Big Data is that it’s big and just getting bigger all the time. That requires storage and processing power and analytics. That’s why...
read moreBig Data is Truly Transforming the Enterprise
Among the many trends slamming into IT today is the idea of Big Data, and while it is no doubt the buzzword of the day, there is definitely something happening around the idea of using data to understand your business better. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to MIT professor Andrew McAfee about this notion of big data. McAfee is best known for being the guy who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, the idea of bringing social tools into the enterprise. He is currently principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for Digital Busines and recently wrote a book called Race Against the Machine with...
read moreFiguring out how fast is fast enough for your website
Yesterday we started covering O’Reilly Radar’s video interview with Web Performance Optimization(WPO) expert Steve Souders from Google. In yesterday’s post we looked at the relationship between WPO and SEO. Today we look at how fast is fast enough for your website — and how do you figure it out. Souders says it’s not always easy to do. In fact, he says since he has been discussing the notion of WPO, people have pushed him for an absolute value for the perfect speed. Unfortunately, there really isn’t one and the answer is, ‘it depends.’ He says,...
read moreFree Real User Monitoring
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