Industry Perspectives Archives

9April2017

Announcing Deterministic Root Cause

in: Blog, Industry Perspectives, OpsDataStore, Performance and Capacity

OpsDataStore is pleased to announce a dramatic addition to our existing 1.2 product, Deterministic Root Cause. Leveraging our patent pending Dynamic Topology Mapping engine, allows OpsDataStore to do anomaly analysis on factual relationships over time. Since we know, for example, upon which virtual server, host and datastore a transaction is running, and since we know this for a fact (i.e., not via correlation), we can then perform accurate pair-wise anomaly analysis on transactions and their supporting virtual and physical infrastructure.

Datanami: Can Big Data Tame the Chaos of Virtualized IT?

in: Industry Perspectives, News, OpsDataStore

Datanami has written an article that explains how virtualization at all layers (compute, network, and storage) combined with agile development and devops has produced a chaotic IT environment. Read more

20October2016

The Future of the Enterprise Cloud Operating System

in: Blog, Industry Perspectives, OpsDataStore, OpsDataStore Ecosystem, Performance and Capacity

VMware has announced the VMware Cloud on AWS. This new enterprise grade public cloud consists of the entire VMware vSphere/NSX/vSAN software stack and API’s along with the third party ecosystem for vSphere on AWS bare metal. Read the post to see how this new offering from VMware could reshape the entire cloud computing industry for the benefit of enterprise customers. Read more

6October2016

Data Driven IT Operations

in: Blog, Industry Perspectives, OpsDataStore, OpsDataStore Ecosystem, Performance and Capacity

Engage in a conversation with any IT executive on the topic of big data and you will likely hear how the IT team has helped their company put in place a “Data Lake” that houses large amounts of business data and that is the basis for data driven business decisions. We know that data driven decisions underlie how airlines price seats, how hotels price rooms, and what merchandise online retailers offer each visitor based upon the available information about each visitor. Read more

9July2016

30 Ways in which APM should Evolve – Part 2

in: Blog, Industry Perspectives, Performance and Capacity

Docker is going to disaggregate applications into hundreds and thousands of micro-services each of which will communicate with each other over virtual networks. APM tools need to evolve to technically step up to be able to monitor 100X or 1000X as many things and the transaction flows across those things as is the case today.

Read the entire post here.

9July2016

30 Ways in Which APM Should Evolve – Part 1

in: Blog, Industry Perspectives, Performance and Capacity

APM vendors should expand the scope of their offerings to address the entire estate of the applications owned and run by enterprises (including purchased applications).

Read the entire post here.