Over the past five years I've worked with many large enterprises
to help them deploy, manage and optimise their application performance toolsets
(and their applications for that matter). I've encountered and used a large
collection of APM products like OpTier, CA Wily, HP Diagnostics and dynaTrace - I'm always on
the lookout for new application monitoring tools that enter the market. Two
tools that caught my eye recently are AppDynamics and New Relic. Both companies are based out
of San Francisco and have years of APM DNA in their leadership team and
technology. What makes them particularly eye-catching is the way they are both
attacking the cost/complexity deficiencies of the more legacy APM toolsets. New
Relic and AppDynamics solve these deficiencies in slightly different and innovative
ways and the purpose of this blog is to provide an overview of each solution
and summarize my own thoughts on the approaches each has taken to simplify and
disrupt the APM market.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Monday, 2 January 2012
My 2012 New Year's Resolution - More APM Blogging
Happy New Year!
My New Year's resolution is to update this blog more, particularly with posts on Application Performance Monitoring products. This market is growing fast and becoming increasingly more complicated in terms of product offerings by the various vendors in this space. Gartner has tried to simplify things with their Magic Quadrant but theirs is a very feature centric view of the world and also places many vendors in the "Leaders" category which, to me at least, confuses things even more.
There are many factors to consider when purchasing an APM product and these should go beyond feature comparisons and marketing material to also include how you operate as a business:
My goal in the next series of posts is to provide a broader view of the APM product space, taking a look at some of the players in this market and analysing their capabilities in terms of use cases and real life usage scenarios.
Stay tuned!
My New Year's resolution is to update this blog more, particularly with posts on Application Performance Monitoring products. This market is growing fast and becoming increasingly more complicated in terms of product offerings by the various vendors in this space. Gartner has tried to simplify things with their Magic Quadrant but theirs is a very feature centric view of the world and also places many vendors in the "Leaders" category which, to me at least, confuses things even more.
There are many factors to consider when purchasing an APM product and these should go beyond feature comparisons and marketing material to also include how you operate as a business:
- Do you outsource your IT and application support or do you have in-house IT teams?
- Do you outsource application development?
- What skill sets do your in-house/outsourced IT teams have?
- Who will support your APM product long term?
- How frequent are your application release cycles?
- How easy is it to install software agents in your data center?
- How easy is it to install a network sniffing device in your data center?
- Who will be the audience for the data provided by the APM product and who will take action on that data?
- How will it integrate with your existing processes?
My goal in the next series of posts is to provide a broader view of the APM product space, taking a look at some of the players in this market and analysing their capabilities in terms of use cases and real life usage scenarios.
Stay tuned!
Sunday, 1 January 2012
APM Survey from AppDynamics
Here's an interesting Infographic from AppDynamics summarising results from a recent survey they conducted around application performance. Pretty fascinating percentages around the number of respondents moving their applications to cloud platforms in 2012, it would be interesting to know what types of applications these are.
Enjoy!
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