Server 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 more2012 Trends: Analytics Comes to IT
If you want to see a good list of monitoring trends, check out the 12 Predictions for 2012 on APM Digest. One that stuck out for me was # 3: Breakout Year for Predicitve Analytics because I’ve always thought there was a connection between business analytics and application performance monitoring. In this instance, the analytics don’t involve business or web analytics as you might think of them. Instead, they involve using analytics tools, which have been used for business knowledge in the past, to build a better understanding of your systems and applications and the interdepencies...
read moreIT Ops Looks for Ways to Manage Info Overload
We have no shortage of information out there or solutions to help us “manage” it. In fact, all we hear about lately is the explosion of Big Data, but it’s more than the hype cycle at work, there really is a ton of information to deal with and process. And IT Ops is on the forefront. That’s why companies like Adobe and IBM have been sucking up analytics firms. These large companies also recognize a trend when they see it and they see you looking around for solutions that can help you manage that avalanche of information.The information comes in several forms. For your...
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