Application Performance Engineering Hub

The annual Computer Measurement Group conference was held in DC, last week (12/5 to 12/9). Here is the “about me” for the group: The Computer Measurement Group is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to sharing information and best practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise [...]

Large PLC’s and multinationals suffer more prolonged and targeted attacks, whilst SME’s (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) and OMB’s (Owner Managed Businesses) are relatively secure because of their obscurity. This is not true. “The threat to IT systems will always be one of the highest risks to any company, regardless of its size,” says John [...]

After a busy Thanksgiving and stellar Black Friday, web watcher comScore predicted that Cyber Monday sales would exceed last year’s record. In 2010, Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day of the year, with sales just over $1 billion. The predictions came true. Monday’s $1.25 billion tally is 22% bigger than last year’s Cyber [...]

Enterprise CFOs are taking an increasingly active role in managing the IT decision making process. As a result, IT professionals need to be prepared to quickly show how innovative technology investments equate to real business value. According to a recent industry report, only 5 percent of CIOs have the power to authorize IT investments. That same [...]

Back in the “good” or “bad” old days, life used to be simpler for those of us focused on BSM. Application Management, though strategic, was domain-centric and BSM was where everything came together. But as technologies evolved, and a growing focus on real-time currency, in part due to cloud, caused a combination of panic and [...]

Cyber Monday, the busiest day of the year for online sales, is fast approaching and with time running out, ForLinux, one of the UK’s leading providers of open source hosting and IT support, is reminding Internet retailers to perform essential server maintenance or potentially miss out on bumper sales. Monday, Nov. 28th, is the date [...]

In 2009, Target announced plans to separate from a partnership with Amazon.com, which used to run the retailer’s site. That 10-year deal expired in 2011, and now Target controls its own fate. Strategically, the breakup makes sense, but Target is winging it a bit when it comes to its e-commerce operations and managing demand spikes. [...]

It’s only human nature: An old clunker of a laptop computer doesn’t seem so bad when money is tight. Especially to the manager who has to watch the bottom line and who doesn’t mind waiting two minutes for a PDF document to load. It might not be ideal, but it’s good enough. Many of us use the [...]

Today’s business environment demands that most organizations need to change and rapidly adapt according to market dynamics while still remaining in control. Businesses have approached this challenge using business intelligence (BI) analytics tools to sift through enormous collections of data and catch what could have been missed opportunities. This gives business the power to strain [...]

Application performance management tools are used to help enterprises manage application activities within a cloud environment, including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Tools can also identify the source of performance issues, and with advanced analytics, they can also identify some problems before they even [...]