Browsing posts tagged with: cloud
Weekly Packet: All Cloud, All the Time
October 7, 2016 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
This week, we came across some nice hard numbers on cloud infrastructure spending, based on IDC research. They expect that spending on cloud infrastructure will pull even with spending on traditional IT infrastructure within five years. That’s a pretty amazing shift when we look back over the past decade or so in IT. With all…Continue reading
Weekly Packet: Airplanes, Unplugged; Various States of Infrastructure
August 12, 2016 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring
This was a big one in the Wide World of Outages this week: Delta Airlines couldn’t get more than 1,500 planes off the ground because of a power outage in Atlanta. Well, that’s what initial reports said, but the Wall Street Journal went into the details about how some critical systems and equipment didn’t switch over…Continue reading
Weekly Packet: Gold-Medal Tech, Your Cloud Shopping List
August 5, 2016 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights, Networking Technology
I just had to write an Olympic-themed headline, since today is the first day of the 2016 Summer Games! I love the Olympics. It’s so much fun watching athletes do what they’re best at. Plus, they have the extra challenge this year of swimming or boating in polluted, mucky water—so it’s even more impressive for…Continue reading
Weekly Packet: Post-Brexit Cloud, and Why to Keep Apps On-Premises
July 29, 2016 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring
Happy Friday, all, and thanks for voting on the name of this weekly roundup blog post. The big winner was “Weekly Packet,” so let’s get started on volume two. AWS and other cloud adoption could rise in the wake of the Brexit decision over in Europe, as a Forbes contributor reports. I find this fascinating,…Continue reading
Combating Enterprise IT Ops Challenges in China
June 20, 2016 by Team AppNeta
Many of our enterprise clients are growing and expanding to more remote locations around the world, especially in areas of high economic growth such as China and India. Accelerated business growth can be exciting and full of potential, but it comes with lots of strategic and tactical challenges for the business. When it comes to…Continue reading
Configuring fault-tolerant path alerts
April 1, 2015 by Greg Bromage
For many years, AppNeta has provided best-of-breed performance management for apps you build and apps you buy. Central to this service is the ability to create timely alerts when latency and network connectivity exceed your established thresholds. At present, alerts are dispatched by email which – in certain configurations – can create a circular dependency:…Continue reading
Office 365: What to Consider As You Migrate
March 11, 2015 by Team AppNeta
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
Many businesses these days are migrating to Office 365. It is important that when implementing a migration, they make sure the user experience is optimized both during the migration and afterwards. Gartner recently released a study indicating that, by 2017, 33% of all users will be on cloud-based business office systems such as Office 365.…Continue reading
Enabling More Workflows for Your SaaS App Monitoring
February 2, 2015 by Sean Armstrong
Company News, Performance Monitoring
More and more companies are implementing SaaS applications for conducting their most critical business processes. With SaaS apps, the IT department may not be responsible for providing technical support, but they are responsible for ensuring a positive experience for the end-users in their organization. We developed our SaaS Application Monitoring (SAM) solution to provide technology…Continue reading
Announcing SAM: SaaS Application Monitoring
September 29, 2014 by TR Jordan
Company News, Performance Monitoring
To monitor SaaS applications, IT teams have been using traditional application monitoring tools that are for monitoring internal applications — looking at servers and devices on the network to make sure they are functioning properly. However, SaaS applications aren’t on their network — they are over the Internet and in the cloud — making these…Continue reading
Internet Slowdown Day: Too Painful to be Real?
September 11, 2014 by TR Jordan
Yesterday was Go Slow Day on the Internet. As lawmakers consider the latest arguments on how much control ISPs should be allowed to exert over the networks that support the wider internet, websites like Reddit, Etsy, and Vimeo are staging a protest. Yesterday, they committed to slowing down their main sites, giving users a glimpse…Continue reading