application performance
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 [...]
Can DevOps overcome us-vs-them
I find it interesting that Andi Mann’s Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark is fairly dismissive of DevOps because developers “create messes” for operations to clean up. However, many of the responses and defenses of DevOps are laden with some sharp comments about “slow moving” operations groups (e.g. Perhaps DevOps Misnamed?). Clearly the us-vs-them wall [...]
Troubleshooting heaven for Dev and Ops?
Strange as it may seem, I had a hallelujah moment at IBM Pulse. I was sitting through a session about enabling development and operations to work together more effectively. They were talking about how IBM was integrating the Rational Asset Manager with Tivoli CCMDB data repositories. This is necessary and important work, but not terribly [...]
Oracle buys Amberpoint
AmberPoint becomes the latest addition to Oracle’s charm-bracelet of application management companies. It seems that Oracle is cherry-picking the business transaction management technology for integration into their Fusion Middleware SOA Management Solutions architecture. Which makes sense given Oracle’s other acquisitions have already filled in other strengths that AmberPoint touted as a standalone solution: Web Services [...]
Clouds and application performance
It seems like cloud computing is supplanting virtualization as the hot buzz word. With the cloud computing buzz come the usual promises of faster deployment of applications. However, cloud platform and solution providers also upping the ante by mixing dynamic workload balancing and virtualization technologies to make provisioning resources really quick, easy and, in some [...]
Philips improves user experience with ITCAM
Philips uses IBM’s Composite Application Management to improve user experience and application performance download the pdf Overview Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people‟s lives through timely innovations. Business need: Eliminate user response time problems by quickly identifying the source using [...]
Proactive Service Management Through IBM Tivoli’s Predictive Analysis
PNA believes most IT organizations know that more sophisticated event identification and analytics will facilitate the leap from reactive to proactive management which will improve productivity and service performance. However, there can be several sticking points that stand in the way of achieving these goals, such as the concern about false-positives or unpalatable implementation choices [...]
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