Application Performance Management from a "dummy"...

by Amit Gupta

Having completed the first year of my masters’ study in Information Management, I was actively looking for an internship in the IT field. Riverbed with its industry leading network performance management (NPM) solutions for IT and bulging trophy cabinet was an obvious choice.

My joining Riverbed could not have come at a better time. Every day I get an insider’s view of how the integration with OPNET Technologies is helping Riverbed build on its strong heritage and experience in delivering solutions that improve the performance of technology for business. But this integration created a serious problem for me…having just learned NPM, I would now have to employ my limited mental faculties to learn application performance management (APM).

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Super Villains of Application Performance Management

By Peco Karayanev

Last week we discussed our APM Super Heroes – who they are and what they do. Heroes would not be heroes without the dark forces that oppose them. To know good, we must also be able to recognize evil. So what are these “villains” of application performance that our heroes do battle with? Some are inherent characteristics of modern applications, while others spring from poor APM practices. 

To read the rest of this post and learn about the APM super villains, please visit the Riverbed blog.

The Rise of DevOps

By Peco Karayanev

The DevOps movement came into existence to overcome the "Wall of Confusion," which impedes application release agility and leaves Development and Operation teams at odds. The DevOps community has been focused on release automation and best practices around systems engineering. Frameworks like Chef and Puppet create more structure for the release process and are helping DevOps teams overcome the Wall of Confusion.

To read the full blog post, please visit the Riverbed blog!

Super Heroes of APM

By Peco Karayanev

 

Who is the last line of defense for IT? Who will sacrifice sleep and personal time to restore a failing application at 3 a.m. or on the weekend? Who goes beyond the call of duty to discover application bottlenecks and improve IT service delivery to make everyone's life easier? This article is a tribute to the APM Super Heroes who work tirelessly to save lives, by shedding those precious seconds of application delay for the thousands of users they support.

Read the rest of this post on the Riverbed blog!

Reflections from Riverbed: Monitoring EUE

Riverbed's Bob Gilbert blogs about  the recent OPNET acquisition, and invites readers to participate in a LIVE DEMO!

"A number of folks have asked me what technology and feature-set Riverbed gets as a result of our recent OPNET acquisition and my response always begins with the same 3 words: End User Experience." Read more here.

The Case of the Slow Applications

By Terry Slattery

I completed an exciting engagement recently with a client.  This story below is based directly on this experience, from which you should learn something if you are involved in solving application performance problems.

I’m sitting in the CEO’s conference room, along with the CIO and the heads of all the IT departments: networking, network management, applications, and servers, all nervously making

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Cook Children’s Health Care System Cuts Root-Cause Diagnosis from Days to Hours with OPNET and Anue Solutions

by John

I recently saw a great case study presentation by Cook Children’s Health Care System, on how their network team uses APM technology to improve application performance and provide better service to their patients and physicians. I’ve summarized the key take-aways below.

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APM Series: The Cloudist Interview with Alain J. Cohen

The Cloudist just published a short interview with Alain Cohen, co-founder of OPNET Technologies, Inc.  It provides an overview of APM best practices and OPNET's approach.