Infographic: Average of 7.5 Hours to Recover from Outages
Average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers and traditional hosting providers is 7.5 hours, according to a new infographic created by RightScale ...read more
View ArticleApp Performance Not Adequately Addressed in Software Development Lifecycle
Assessing real-world, end-user network conditions and understanding inefficient use of network resources are the top two issues facing application performance engineers in 2013, according to a new...
View ArticleOptimizing Business Performance: Why Every C-level Manager Should Care About...
The adoption of virtualization technologies has allowed IT to become more supportive of business objectives and reduce the overall cost of their services, allowing the re-direction of those freed...
View Article3 Criteria to Determine if Your Network is Ready for the Video Revolution
Whether it’s March Madness basketball in the US or Champions League soccer in Europe, wherever there’s a live game or highlight video being streamed over an enterprise network, there’s a network...
View Article40% of IT Managers Experience Cloud Outage, Survey Says
Delivering services through cloud computing is a high priority objective for many IT departments, even though nearly 4 of 10 IT managers say they’ve experienced a cloud outage, according to a survey...
View ArticleAin’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Many years ago, the word “real” had its heyday in the world of product marketing. Plenty of commercials and advertisements would tout the “realness” of products. Luckily, in the world of application...
View ArticleConverged Infrastructure Delivers Improved IT Service, Survey Says
30% of the survey respondents have adopted a converged infrastructure, according to the 2013 State of Converged Infrastructure survey conducted by Zenoss ...read more
View ArticleDenial of Service Attacks Surge
Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are making a resurgence, according to new research from International Data Corporation ...read more
View ArticleWhy Performance Management? It’s the Apps Stupid!
As an analyst focused on performance management and optimization technologies, I hear a lot of reasons for why businesses should implement these technologies. They need to improve their network and...
View ArticleImproved Outlook on IT Administrator Stress in US
The number of US IT professionals considering leaving their job due to workplace stress has declined from 67% last year to 57% in 2013, a 10 point drop in one year, according to GFI Software's second...
View ArticleThe Top Factor Impacting Application Performance: The Right Answer
When trying to pin down the top factor impacting application performance, the right answer is that there is no right answer.read more
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect Within IT
The "Butterfly Effect" theoretically describes a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings weeks before. This highlights a sensitive dependence...
View ArticleIT Decision-Makers Adopt New Strategies for Technology Investments
The accelerating pace of technology change is forcing IT decision-makers to adopt new strategies that keep their existing technology investments from becoming a drag on business value ...read more
View Article6 Ways to Prepare for a Performance Emergency
Saving the day when performance unexpectedly suffers takes two things: the courage to act and preparation. The courage comes from within, but being prepared is easy — it can happen daily as part of...
View ArticleRoutine Technology Problems Drive Huge Losses in Productivity, Survey Says
The cost of routine IT issues experienced by workers and businesses has reached crisis proportions, negatively impacting employee and company productivity – and by extension shareholder value and...
View ArticleDon’t Get Bit By Old School Network Infrastructures
If you’ve seen lots of wide area network diagrams you’ve probably noticed a familiar pattern emerge, one that bears a striking resemblance to the members of the arachnid family. Yep, quite a few WANs...
View ArticleMore Than 60% of Organizations Not Prepared to Solve Next-Gen Application...
IT managers from companies around the world are struggling with network and application performance issues as new technologies and high-bandwidth applications continue to consume network resources at...
View ArticleCIOs Need to Manage Both Technology and Business Innovation to Gain...
CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation...
View ArticleCloud Value Expanding With Greater Adoption, Survey Says
Companies are reporting more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing, according to RightScale's second annual State of the Cloud survey ...read more
View ArticleTwo-Thirds of Interop Survey Participants Are Under-Prepared for BYOD
Ninety-five percent of survey participants indicated their organizations have embraced BYOD, allowing employees to connect via personal mobile devices to internal networks, according to a Network...
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