
A new breed of DevOps focused APM tools is moving performance management outside the domain of operations. With features to support analysts, architects, developers, testers and DevOps APM is at home in all phases of agile development.
Posts Tagged ‘ New Relic ’APM for Agile and DevOps: 7 practical use casesNews: AppDynamics and New Relic Prepare to go Big Time in the APM Market![]() By raising respectively $50 and $80M AppDynamics and New Relic have positioned themselves to go public sometime in the next two years. They will join Splunk and Solarwinds as brand new management software companies built from the group up to meet the new requirements for management of virtualized and cloud based data centers. APM as a Service and CA’s ReactionAPM as a Service from vendors like AppDynamics, New Relic, AppFirst, and AppEnsure is a viable option for most enterprises. While on premise solutions are not dead, legacy vendors who have not modernized their products for the new requirements at the application development, application deployment, and data center distribution are blind dinosaurs. They are dead… Why you should invest in ASaaS not PaaS![]() In addition to PaaS there is a class of vendors who provide external services to PaaS through "marketplaces" that the vendor sets up. We refer to these generically as Application Services as a Service (ASaaS). The stakes are potentially huge - the PaaS takes over from the Operating System as the dominant factor in the… AppFog – Polyglot Public/Private PaaS goes GA![]() AppFog (the company formerly known as PhpFog) has become the latest enthusiastic adopter of CloudFoundry to go to General Availability with a value-added implementation of the open source CloudFoundry.org stack. The key differentiator is the RAM-based pricing policy around the Public Cloud offering - roughly $25 per GByte per month (first 2Gbytes are Free). Private PaaS Update – Stackato 2.0 and Cumulogic 1.0![]() ActiveState Stackato and CumuLogic are private PaaS. Over the last few weeks Stackato has moved to a 2.0 version and CumuLogic has moved out of Beta to a 1.0 release. CumuLogic 1.0 is a Java-only PaaS with support for Amazon, HP Cloud Services, and private clouds including Citrix CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and VMware vSphere. Stackato… On Premise vs. Monitoring as a Service – Considerations and TradeoffsApplication Performance Management for Virtualized Applications – the VMware vFabric APM Update
As business critical applications move into production virtualized environments, the need arises to ensure their performance from a response time perspective. Legacy Applications Performance Management tools are not well suited to make the jump from static physical systems, to dynamic virtual and cloud based systems. For these reasons enterprises need to consider new tools from… Looking at the Entire VMware Operations and Application Management Strategy
VMware is clearly serious about extending its management reach into the application layer of the stack. New products like vFabric AppDirector, and vFabric APM make this into more than intention - they make VMware's participation in these markets a reality as well. The move to remake the APM industry has thus far been lead by… |