CA Technologies Positions Automic at the DevOps Core

October 17, 2017 by Mike Vizard 2 Comments

After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform with the rest of the portfolio of tools and services that it says are required to construct a software factory. Ron Gidron, technology […]

New Relic Extends Monitoring Reach

May 26, 2017 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

New Relic this week at its Future Stack 2017 conference extended the reach of its monitoring services via the release of a software development kit (SDK) that makes it possible for IT teams to monitor custom applications. In addition, New Relic unveiled Health Map, which makes it much easier for IT administrators to correlate data […]

The DevOps.com Application Performance Management Leadership Links Guide

April 14, 2017 by George V. Hulme 2 Comments

Businesses today are largely defined by the applications they run. And to stay competitive enterprises must continuously update their software and performance issues must be identified and solved swiftly. This drive toward more rapid software iterations and enterprise development and IT management efficiency is one of the biggest reasons why more companies have embraced DevOps […]

Synthetic Monitoring: The Start of the Monitoring Journey

September 15, 2016 by contributor 2 Comments

Under pressure to innovate and deliver rapid updates to their applications, developers often place monitoring as an after-thought. In today’s world, where a slowdown can translate to customer attrition and an outage can lead to millions of dollars in losses and negative press, ensuring satisfactory response time has evolved to be one of the most […]

Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM

September 7, 2016 by contributor 2 Comments

To enable faster and better response to changing customer needs, enterprises are increasing their release frequency for applications. This, in turn, demands tighter alignment and collaboration than traditionally has been seen between the line of business, development and IT operations, driving the need for enhanced collaboration, automation and information transparency among these groups. To achieve […]

Application Monitoring in the Age of Big Data

January 19, 2016 by contributor 2 Comments

Operations (or ops, as it is known colloquially) has been necessary since the first shared systems came online in the ’60s. While the job title didn’t necessarily exist, the same questions needed answers then as they do now: Is it up and accessible? Is it responding in a reasonable time frame? Is it performing better […]

The Role of APM in Continuous Integration and Continuous Release

January 5, 2016 by Jonah Kowall 3 Comments

Today’s software-defined and -driven business requires fast changes in business models—a phenomenon permeating successful businesses. What this means is almost every company is learning how to make small, rapid changes and adjustments within their business, especially within software systems. As a result, IT is feeling immense pressure to evolve, and the net result is a […]

AppFormix promises to help you manage your cloud infrastructure more efficiently

July 10, 2015 by Tony Bradley 1 Comments

Application Performance Management (APM) tools are great for…well, for managing application performance. AppFormix believes, however, that APM only takes you so far. You also need to manage infrastructure performance. The theory behind APM is simple enough: proactively monitor applications to detect and resolve issues in real-time without undue impact on application performance. What if the […]