Most Citrix professionals are well aware that when desktop or application performance is slow, the first finger tends to get pointed at the Citrix team. But even for complex ecosystems like Citrix, ITIL guidance like a Service Desk continues to be a...
Managing the end-user experience has become the basis of competition in the digital services world. Most IT organizations today are looking for a portal for managing the performance of digital business services – and a portal is much more than a...
One of the most radical trends in enterprise IT in the recent years is cloud migration. With cloud service providers innovating constantly to address the security and management concerns around cloud adoption, enterprises seem more positive and...
For many, the world of Java is shrouded in mystery and endeavor. One such endeavor is garbage collection. There is many a viewpoint on garbage collection – whether it is good or bad, when is it needed, how often should it run, how to tune garbage...
Application performance monitoring (APM) has become one of the key strategies adopted by IT teams and application owners in today’s era of digital business services. Application downtime has always been considered adverse to business productivity...
When I hear the word SIAM today, I think of two things. First, I think of Yul Brynner in The King and I….and second, I think of Service Integration and Management. Service Integration and Management (SIAM) seeks to combine the benefits of...
For years, monitoring has used the terms ‘black box’ and ‘white box.’ Black box monitoring is outside-in; it tests externally visible behavior. Real user monitoring and service-level monitoring are examples. White box monitoring is...
The migration to cloud computing is like the gold rush days, a mad stampede of companies betting the farm on new business models powered by shiny nuggets of emerging technology-driven capabilities. But I think it’s worth a reminder that ‘the...
The continual cycle of monitoring and control has been – and will remain – a basis for setting strategy, design, delivery and improvement to digital business services. From a technology monitoring standpoint, as IT infrastructures evolve in...
With hundreds of monitoring products on the market and more on the way, there’s always been confusion in this space. Marketers use words like ‘root-cause’, ‘proactive’ and even ‘dashboards’ and ‘topology’ as if they were magical...