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APM: Helping Overcome Custom App Management Woes
In any economic climate, every business deploying custom apps needs to assess their APM needs to protect their business There are numerous use cases for custom-made apps, but only one reason they’re deployed: Something off-the-shelf just won’t cut it. When we launch a new kind of digital business, or if operations are far too complex […]
Oct 20, 2020 · 3 minAll articles by David Wagner
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My son is a commercial on-demand cargo pilot, and it’s his job to move around auto parts when they’re needed in the supply chain. During a recent auto strike, he ended up flying a few fenders to a factory for something around $20,000. The profit margin on those fenders was blown to bits, but it […]
Overcoming Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management Challenges with APM
When companies move toward hybrid and multi-cloud, both leadership and IT can struggle to adapt their organizational structures and processes to a new, more complex way of doing things. With the classic form of DevOps, for example, operational monitoring and management procedures are radically new and different: from a management perspective, it almost appears as […]
Cloud Confessions: Full Stack APM Is a Necessity
IT environments have become more dynamic and complex, which has created the need for robust monitoring tools. As a result, companies are increasingly adopting more than one platform, catapulting us into the multi-cloud era. Technology professionals are also embracing and acknowledging the need for comprehensive, full-stack application monitoring and management, bringing application performance management (APM) […]
Four Ways to Modernize Processes and Measure Performance With APM
Change is everywhere and the stakes are high. For 2019, businesses are on track to spend over a trillion dollars on digital modernization, according to a recent study from IDC. A crucial part of modernization is the growing number of IT organizations using the latest in dynamic, cloud-scale technologies to develop applications. As a result, […]
APM for All: Simplifying the Complexity of Cloud
As companies adopt hybrid and even multi-cloud strategies, their IT departments are beginning to use dynamic technologies to build new application features on top of existing back-end business systems. Most organizations now have a blended, multi-cloud architecture where public clouds are integrated with the existing on-premises, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure and applications. This means, […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of APM Strategies and Tools
As 2019 comes to an end, it’s safe to say that multi-cloud strategies are here to stay. We can predict that 2020 will bring an ever-increasing demand for application performance management (APM) tools and services. So what does the future of APM look like? Let’s dive in. Multi-Cloud Strategies Increase the Demand for APM Tool […]
Achieving Application Health Through Integrated APM
Performance and availability mean everything to application users at both the enterprise and consumer level. Think about how much we rely on technology for our everyday communication—when Slack suffered from an outage this summer, it affected thousands of business professionals across the globe who use Slack to communicate, organize tasks and share information. In a […]
Understanding and Implementing the APM Puzzle – Performance and Availability
While every organization is unique, there’s one universal goal everyone can get behind—creating and delivering an exceptional end-user experience. For both classic IT organizations and companies built in the age of cloud, delivering continuous availability and appropriate application performance is key. Although digital transformation has become a buzzword some would say is meaningless, the idea […]