Applications

Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy

11/02/20 Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated soft…

Can You Consistently Deliver the Digital Experience You’ve Promised?

10/20/20 If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity of information technology has exposed users to the best the IT industry has to of…

Frequently Asked Questions About Application Performance

10/09/20 Digital transformation is changing the way companies do business, putting pressure on IT to continually monitor and manage the performance of applications delivering busin…

Checklist for Application Performance and Availability

10/07/20 Given the increasing complexity IT infrastructures (network, storage, compute, platforms, etc.), application performance management (APM) solutions have become a critical …

Cloud Native, You Keep Using Those Words

09/25/20 Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to p…

How to Ensure and Optimize Application Performance

09/14/20 Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and performance of software applications by obtaining and translating IT and application metric…

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: Take It to Twitter

09/02/20 If you’ve run across other articles I’ve written about hybrid cloud, you’ll notice a familiar theme: it’s an artifact of other technology decisions nobody asked for. As su…

Tips for Success When Implementing Your Transformation Initiative

08/31/20 Change isn’t without its detractors in terms of people and systems. A misstep in expanding application performance monitoring (APM) across full-stack application monitorin…

Accidental Cloud Administrator

08/14/20 Accidental DBA is a term most IT pros are familiar with, and traditionally it describes an “on-top task” for the SysAdmin. It was followed by the “involuntary security adm…

Are Cloud Computing Engineers the Missing Link on Your Federal IT Team?

08/11/20 Cloud computing can be more complex than anticipated, particularly as agencies continue to move applications and operations into a cloud environment. Does your federal IT …

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strate…

Becoming Hybrid: Operating Your Cloud Environment

07/06/20 It’s a day for celebration! Our migration is complete, and our applications are now running in the cloud environment best suited to their needs. The rest of our applicatio…