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Monitoring as a Service (MaaS)

August 18, 2010
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There are some applications that are “never” going to go into a public cloud and the monitoring of those applications is not going to be done on a MaaS basis either. However, the ease with which these solutions can be purchased, initially deployed and then managed on an ongoing basis means that for applications that…

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Reinventing Infrastructure Performance Monitoring for the Cloud

May 25, 2010
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Cloud Performance Management needs to evolve and allow cloud vendors to provide their customers a customer specific Infrastructure Response Time metric. This in conjunction with cloud aware Applications Performance Management solutions is needed in order for customers to feel comfortable putting business critical applications in the cloud.

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AppDynamics Raises an $11M Series B Round – Confirms APM 2.0 Opportunity

May 4, 2010
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A new Applications Performance Management opportunity has arisen driving by virtualization, the cloud, scaled out deployment architectures, lower cost open source middleware, and agile development techniques. AppDynamics has raised an $11M series B round to address this opportunity. New Relic is the current market leader. BlueStripe and VMware with AppSpeed are also targeting this space.

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Cloud Applications Performance Management gets Serious

March 17, 2010
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Cloud Applications Performance Management gets Serious

I had the opportunity to present on Applications Performance Management for Cloud Hosted Applications at the Cloud Connect Conference in Santa Clara CA on March 15, 2010. It was an eventful presentation as I was part of panel assembled by Hon Won (former founder of NetIQ and now EVP of Business Development at Coradiant). The…

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Virtualization Aware APM Advances

February 24, 2010
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Virtualization Aware APM Advances

We categorize the vendors that do performance and availability monitoring for virtualization and cloud computing into four categories: Resource and Availability Monitoring – This is primarily about taking data from the hypervisor vendor (most often the VMware vCenter API data), storing it, trending it, reporting on it, analyzing it, and alerting on it. Infrastructure Performance…

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Applications Performance Management Vendors – Cross Platform Support

December 15, 2009
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Applications Performance Management Vendors – Cross Platform Support

2010 will be the year that many enterprises confront two very important changes to how they will use server virtualization. The first change is that as VMware vSphere has proven its maturity, performance and scalability enterprises will increasingly put business critical tier applications, at least in part on virtualized platforms. The second change is that…

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New Relic RPM Product Review

October 27, 2009
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New Relic RPM Product Review

RPM is a ground breaking combination of monitoring functionality, ease of deployment, and ease of purchase. Understanding the performance of applications that you place in clouds is a significant barrier to the deployment of applications in these clouds. RPM overcomes this issue with a solution that is a unique fit for these cloud hosted applications.

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Application Performance Management for Virtualization Comes of Age

October 19, 2009
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Since the major push on the part of VMware with vSphere is to virtualize Tier 1 applications, it is important to understand how the Application Performance Management solutions for virtualized Tier 1 applications is evolving in support of this trend

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Performance Monitoring for Cloud Hosted Applications – Time for a Clean Sheet of Paper

September 24, 2009
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Cloud hosted applications require a new approach to applications performance management. An approach that is offered on a SAAS basis, with an easy to install application resident agent, and that focuses upon response time instead of resource utilization is required. New Relic RPM is the first example of such an approach.

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