The Real Cost of Downtime, The Real Potential of DevOps
By Steven Wastie
Hang around any IT department (or the AppDynamics offices) and you likely
won’t finish a cup of coffee before somebody brings up the cost of downtime
or the ascent of DevOps. And that’s a good thing, because these are two
topics that are central to the value that IT brings to enterprises today and
how that value will increase in the future.
IDC recently published research on these two topics in its report, “DevOps
and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified,”
by IDC Vice President Stephen Elliot. (See the full report.) AppDynamics was
happy to cooperate with the study, along with a select group of other
enterprise software companies. The survey was conducted among a cross-section
of IT personnel in Fortune 1000 companies.
The high cost of downtime
The research puts so... (more)
End-to-End Monitoring of Critical Applications
By Pedro Pacheco
Thanks to an early season skiing accident, I found myself sitting in the
Emergency Department of a small hospital in a Colorado ski town. The
hospital had recently gone through a major renovation and was proud of its
investment in HIT (Health care IT). Most patient workflows are now automated.
Check-in and registration were a breeze. Within a few minutes, my patient
record was updated and my case was well documented. With an electronic
signature of consent and a scan of my insurance card, all I needed to do was
wait... (more)
Monitoring NGINX with AppDynamics
By Kevin Goldberg
Did you know the AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform includes
monitoring for hundreds of IT components out of the box, including NGINX and
NGINX Plus? They’re all featured in the AppDynamics Exchange.
With the AppDynamics extension for NGINX, you gain powerful capabilities and
insights including:
Business Context: Application transaction tracing automatically associates IT
components with business activities Self-learning: Dynamically baselines
behavior, eliminating static threshold configuration and false positives
Uni... (more)
APM and DevOps: How To Collaborate Effectively with the Virtual War Room
When a critical application starts behaving badly, everyone and their uncle
is on high alert, on conference bridges, chat sessions, and often physically
in the same room trying to get to the bottom of the problem. And here’s how
the conversation usually goes:
Non-Technical Lead: “Okay, what do we know?” IT Ops Lead: “The system
is slow and crashing intermittently.” Non-Technical Lead: “And?” IT Ops
Lead: “And we don’t know why. Server team, what can you tell us?”
Server Lead: “Servers are fine. Maybe there’s ... (more)
I’m pleased to announce that AppDynamics is now a member of the Cloud
Foundry Foundation, the nonprofit organization committed to rapid and robust
development of the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service. This
organization is playing a critical role in ensuring that the Cloud Foundry
ecosystem remains open and available to users, developers, and providers, and
that it continues to grow and advance to serve the increasing number of
enterprises migrating to the cloud. AppDynamics joins a stellar cast of
technology leaders — including IBM, Pivotal, SAP, EMC, Verizon, Akama... (more)
In high-production environments where release cycles are measured in hours or minutes — not days or weeks — there's little room for mistakes and no room for confusion. Everyone has to understand what's happening, in real time, and have the means to do whatever is necessary to keep applications up and running optimally. DevOps is a high-stakes world, but done well, it delivers the agility and performance to significantly impact business competitiveness.
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