We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is red hot right now. Although it’s a mature market, the capabilities APM brings to the table are only increasing in value throughout the enterprise. Application performance monitoring endures as a hotbed of innovation and cost savings. Continue reading
It isn’t every day you get to write about Immanuel Kant and Big Data in the same blog post but last week Gartner Analyst Will Cappelli did just that. As you’ll see in his post, “AI and IAM: Will Two-Tier Analytics Become the Norm for IAM?” context is the key. Cappelli addresses Kant’s conclusion that human reasoning is a two-tier process that first involves what is—the contextual lens in which we view our existence—and how the pieces all relate to each other. From this standpoint, we reason and make decisions. Continue reading
Many enterprises utilize middleware as the “glue” linking their application infrastructure together. This application fabric is usually comprised of bespoke and commercial applications, some of which are sourced within the company and others obtained through acquisition. For these enterprises, middleware lets it all work together. Unfortunately, the middleware solutions are often used on a department or division basis with a box of overlapping tools to monitor and manage them. As IT is still for the most part organized in silos (see Silos of Shame), this can be costly at best providing a technology-specific view of status and with little overall visibility of the application, itself.
In 1909, Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store, coined the phrase “The customer is always right,” and it has become the mantra of countless businesses since. At the time, Gordon could have been considered a customer service revolutionary in the world of modern business. Fast forward a century and there is little doubt that the customer is still king. Customer service has even been cited by some as the only true business metric for growth. Happy customers are profitable customers.
Alexander Podelko, a performance expert working with Oracle, recently wrote a blog post in which he takes a look at the current state of the APM market and what he thinks needs to change in order for companies to get the most out of their solutions.
Nastel recently joined a conversation on Infoworld.com around what writer Dan Tynan described as “IT’s worst addictions.” From our perspective, data is one of these addictions, and by far one of the biggest pain points that the IT industry is forced to deal with today. ‘Big Data’ is the hot potato of 2012—everyone is talking about it and the term is increasingly tossed around within operational circles in organizations. Everyone wants to know “What are we doing about Big Data?” or “What’s our Big Data strategy?” If you’re a vendor and you don’t have a solution to manage it, analyze it, optimize it, minimize it, or otherwise be involved in Big Data, you’ve missed the bandwagon.
How much of it is hype? Continue reading
A recent article in NetworkWorld highlighted the surge that is being seen in the Application Performance Monitoring space recently.
The article came about after AppDynamics and BlueStripe released news that their revenues increased 400 and 700 percent, respectively, in 2011. And quoted in the same article was EMA Analyst Julie Craig, author of her own recent Radar Report on APM, who said she doesn’t doubt these vendors’ claims because, “APM is hot right now.
We’re very excited to announce that Enterprise Management Associates has named Nastel Technologies a Value Leader in the latest EMA Radar™ for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: Q1 2012 report.
Report author and Research Director, Julie Craig, notes that Nastel is known as a lower cost APM alternative, and in particular, focused on delivering rich APM functionality at less cost than the traditional solutions. Craig says the company’s flagship product, AutoPilot, is a top-notch aggregator of data that has the ability to assimilate and analyze data from its own collectors, as well as from a variety of other sources, third party and others – including business data.
Craig also called out Nastel’s Complex Event Processing engine in the report, stating it is the very heart of the product and a unique component that sets it apart from its competitors. Additionally, the company does a superb job of covering data-based technologies and that AutoPilot’s functionality is driven by “sophisticated” aggregation analytics.
We can’t complain with that!
AutoPilot, an application performance monitoring solution, ensures the availability and performance of critical business applications for guaranteed high application performance, compliance, improved end-user experience, fewer incidents, lower costs and great productivity.
Here at Nastel, we’re focused on delivering a cost-efficient solution that addresses the different needs organizations have when monitoring the performance of their applications. To provide a high quality of service to your customers, you need to have a unified approach to monitoring; one that can proactively resolves application performance issues.
It’s no secret that 2011 saw the adoption rates of cloud computing increase, and 2012 should see even more growth as organizations not only move their critical applications to the cloud, but small and mid-sized businesses begin to request more cloud-based applications. Continue reading
David Rubinstein, who has been an icon in the software development publishing community for more than a decade, published a great editorial in last month’s issue of SD Times on the topic of APM and DevOps (Industry Watch: Behind the APM and DevOps buzzwords). David calls into question the terms APM and DevOps, noting there has been a certain level of confusion among developers around the terms and their meanings. The post includes commentary from industry players (unfortunately omitting Nastel Technologies from the list), discussing how they define and use the terms.
