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It’s estimated that by 2025, more than 100 zettabytes of data will be stored in the cloud. That not only represents a massive amount of data (to put it in terms end users might be able to digest, one zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes), but roughly half of all the total global data forecast to be collected by 2025. For...
Tags: hybrid office, remote work, work from home, hybrid work, work from anywhere, SaaS, outside in monitoring, cloud management, cloud monitoring, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, TMC, awards, cloud computing, cloud
We talk a lot about the larger wide area network when discussing the biggest Work-From-Anywhere (WFA) challenges facing IT teams today. But nothing is more challenging than trying to make a local impact on end-user experience when you’re many miles away from the source of the problem. This was the resounding theme of the past year and a half, as...
Tags: network management, host monitoring, application monitoring, network monitoring, future of work, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home, cloud, applications, network performance, cpu, host metrics, host, wireless, wifi
This episode marks the third and final installment of a conversation with AppNeta’s Chief Customer Officer Adam Edwards and Director of Global Alliances John Tewfik around optimizing network management for Hybrid Work. In this chat, Adam and John have marching orders for IT and a specific IT checklist that outlines how teams can both expand their effectiveness and visibility while...
Tags: tech podcast, checklist, podcast, wfa, wfh, work from anywhere, work from home, shadow IT, BYOD, SLA, network architecture, infrastructure, ucaas, saas, cloud, end user experience, end user, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, network operations, enterprise IT, enterprise network, hospitality, microsoft teams, hybrid office, hybrid work
Nothing in life is simple, at least not for long. The CapEx vs. OpEx tradeoff is a case in point. For decades, a management mantra evolved that focused on trying to shift from big investments in CapEx, which might take time to yield results and often provided little flexibility – to OpEx spending. That could include outsourcing fewer essential functions...
Tags: AWS, NPM, network management, network performance, network monitoring, expenditures, operational expenditures, capital expenditures, opex, capex, finance, budget, IT, iaas, paas, cloud, saas, capex, opex, budget
Cyber security is a perennial challenge. It’s a complex patchwork of hard-to-manage tools and applications that seems barely able to keep up with the growing threats. Enter “sassy” (aka SASE, secure access service edge), an architectural concept that aims to meet modern organizations where their infrastructure and security challenges are. Ten years ago, the data center was king, operating mostly...
Tags: network management, network monitoring, work from anywhere, work from home, hybrid work, remote work, cloud, cybersecurity, security, edge, paas, iaas, saas, SASE
As the pandemic pushed enterprises to rethink their approach to network management and security in the face of widespread work-from-home restrictions, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) emerged as the go-to IT solution for securely linking a distributed user base. In the two years Gartner has monitored SASE in their Hype Cycle report, the technology has reached 5-20 percent adoption among...
Tags: hybrid office, hybrid work, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home, hype cycle, gartner, ztna, WAN, SDWAN, swg, CASB, zero trust, remote access, cloud, network management, network performance monitoring, networking, edge, network, security, SASE
Spending is up in all areas of IT, according to the latest estimates from Gartner, as data center systems, enterprise software, devices and IT services all represent IT arenas that will see investment grow as enterprises map out their long-term prospects in a post-pandemic world. IT services, in particular, represent the third fastest growing segment in Gartner’s forecast, with businesses...
Tags: remote work, hybrid work, wfa, wfh, work from anywhere, work form home, SDWAN, SASE, SaaS, cloud, budget, gartner, IT, cloud, network monitoring, observability, visibility, network performance monitoring, network management
Spending is up in all areas of IT, according to the latest estimates from Gartner, as data center systems, enterprise software, devices and IT services all represent IT arenas that will see investment grow as enterprises map out their long-term prospects in a post-pandemic world. IT services, in particular, represent the third fastest growing segment in Gartner’s forecast, with businesses...
Tags: remote work, hybrid work, wfa, wfh, work from anywhere, work form home, SDWAN, SASE, SaaS, cloud, budget, gartner, IT, cloud, network monitoring, observability, visibility, network performance monitoring, network management
Multicloud – the practice of formally relying on more than one cloud provider – got a big boost recently when the Pentagon chose to cancel a proposed cloud contract with a single vendor in favor of hiring multiple vendors. While some analysts have warned about the potential complexity of multicloud (and some enterprises have had to set aside a preference...
Tags: IT, footprint, infrastructure, architecture, enterprise network, work from home, work from anywhere, remote office, remote work, hybrid work, hybrid office, hybrid cloud, multicloud, cloud computing, cloud
Tags: back to office, future of work, office, cloud, architecture, infrastructure, enterprise network, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, remote workforce, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home, checklist, hybrid cloud, hybrid office, hybrid, hybrid work
Concerns about returning to the office no longer center primarily around COVID-19 exposure, a recent survey from The Conference Board notes, as 43 percent of workers question the wisdom of returning to the office at all. These concerns are particularly acute among Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996), with 55 percent finding the idea of a return to the...
Tags: hiring, SaaS, cloud, future of work, return to office, baby boomers, Gen Z, millenials, pandemic, covid, hybrid office, hybrid work, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work, network performance, network monitoring, network management
IT organizations that focus on delivering exceptional customer experience (CX) enjoy greater success in nearly all key metrics than those that don’t, a recent Rackspace report finds. Not only is brand awareness 1.6x higher for these companies, but employee satisfaction jumps by 1.5x and customer retention doubles. The trouble is, becoming a CX-focused IT organization doesn’t happen overnight (or even...
Tags: customer retention, IT priorities, call center, contact center, UX, user experience, CX, customer support, customer experience, enterprise network, cloud, enterprise IT, network performance monitoring, network management, network monitoring
Reddit, Spotify, Hulu, Stripe, the New York Times, and countless other online properties went dark with a 503 error for almost an hour this week, showing how delicate the Internet’s physical infrastructure can really be. The error brought down everything from streamers to fintech to news outlets, with Fastly, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider, calling the issue a “global...
Tags: hybrid office, hybrid cloud, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, internet performance, network management, network performance monitoring, network performance, data center, content delivery network, POP, SSD, CDN, cloud, internet, network, Fastly, outage, error
Few platforms saw their profile rise as high as Microsoft Teams over the past 18 months, as the solution became the enterprise go-to for keeping newly-homebound workforces connected during the pandemic. As of Microsoft’s most recent earnings call, Teams now claims 145 million daily active users, nearly double the users counted almost a year ago, and the 32 million daily...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network management, network monitoring, enterprise network, cloud computing, Azure, enterprise cloud, cloud, enterprise IT, IT, network operations, netops, devops, developers, 365, Build 2021, Build, Office 365, Outlook, teams, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft
While the popular narrative around enterprise software has long been centered on the ascension of SaaS, on-premises software demand continues to be strong with 92 percent of companies reporting their on-premise software sales are growing. According to the findings of a new Dimensional Research report from Replicated, demand for on-premises software is equally as strong as cloud solutions, as many...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network management, network performance, colocoation, hybrid cloud, enterprise cloud, enterprise data center, cloud visibility, cloud transformation, cloud computing, cloud, SaaS, software, data center, on premises
Businesses are continuing their march towards a hybrid cloud future, as the 2021 AFCOM Data Center Report found that on-premises enterprise data center construction is shrinking for the foreseeable future as more businesses turn to cloud and colocation services. According to the report, 80 percent of IT leaders said their enterprise is not building any new on-premises data centers today,...
Tags: repatriating, on premise, digital transformation, colocation, cloud transformation, hybrid cloud, cloud, data center monitoring, network monitoring, network management, data center management, data center
More than three quarters of business leaders surveyed by Deloitte credited their organizations’ digital capabilities for helping them survive (if not thrive) during the pandemic, a new report finds. To that end, more than two thirds of respondents see businesses that fail to digitize and transform across departments within the next five years as “doomed,” according to Deloitte’s annual Digital...
Tags: observability, visibility, post pandemic, pandemic, IT, cloud migration, cloud transformation, cloud computing, cloud, edge, enterprise network, enterprise cloud, enterprise IT, enterprise transformation, digital transformation, gartner, deloitte, work from home, work from anywhere, network management, network performance monitoring
As enterprises continue the march toward a Work From Anywhere future, VMware is the latest IT solutions provider to debut a new suite of tools aimed squarely at managing a distributed workforce. Called “Anywhere Workspace,” the new offering combines VMware’s Workspace One platform with endpoint security from VMware’s Carbon Black and SASE product lines. “Even though each of these three...
Tags: distributed enterprise, decentralization, hybrid cloud, hybrid work, hybrid office, anywhere operations, anywhere workspace, work from anywhere, work from home, remote workforce, remote work, network management, WAN, network security, security, SASE, cloud computing, cloud, VMware
Hot on the heels of our recent CUSTOMER Product of the Year win, TMC has again recognized AppNeta for our outstanding approach to enabling enterprises to monitor and manage their rapidly evolving network footprints. This time, we’ve been named a 2021 Cloud Computing Product of the Year, proving yet again that as the world was forced to adopt a whole...
Tags: transformation, enterprise, decentralization, wfa, wfh, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work, remote workforce, network manamgenet, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, SaaS, product of the year, cloud computing Award, cloud computing, cloud
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it would launch its own Financial Services Cloud, joining IBM, who announced their finance cloud a year earlier, in an attempt to meaningfully bring cloud transformation to an industry that’s historically been averse to change. Retail banking has already been a fruitful frontier for cloud computing and tech disruption, what with Venmo and Zelle leaving...
Tags: network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, enterprise transformation, digital transformation, cloud migration, cloud, cloud transformation, cloud computing, banking, corporate banking, finance cloud, financial services, finance
We work with our customers everyday to provide proactive insight on the key apps supporting the business and best practices for addressing issues when they arise. Up this week is a great example of how having a continuous baseline of your cloud applications will help you take action before your users are impacted. On March 15th, saw an issue with...
Tags: network management, enterprise IT, cloud transformation, cloud, cloud computing, Active Directory, Azure outage, Azure, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft, MTTR, MTTI, IT troubleshooting, network performance monitoring
It’s official: AppNeta is among the elite winners of the 23rd Annual CUSTOMER Product of the Year Awards from TMC, one of the leading publishers and online communities covering enterprise technology. The CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award recognized 29 vendors for 2021 that have helped advance the call center, CRM, and teleservices industries over the past year, as global...
Tags: network monitoring, network performance monitoring, software, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud transformation, cloud, work from anywhere, work from home, remote workers, remote workforce, remote work, teleservices, CRM, unified communications, UC, contact center, ucaas, call center, 2021, product of the year, customer Product of the Year Award, TMCNet, customer, TMC
It’s no exaggeration that enterprises are facing a major inflection point, where their entire operational structure is being tested or transformed. Users abruptly went remote en masse last spring, and it remains to be seen how many of the Work From Anywhere skills and habits honed during the pandemic will stick around for the long haul. All of these converging...
Tags: work from home, work from anywhere, wfa, wfh, observability, visibility, application performance insights, network performance insights, network management, network performance monitoring, global enterprises, enterprise alliance, enterprise partners, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise transformation, digital transformation, cloud transformation, cloud, Global Alliances
When Salesforce recently scooped up Slack in a partnership deemed “the most strategic combination in the history of software” (according to Slack’s own CEO), other enterprise cloud providers wasted no time in securing their own blockbuster partnerships to merge cloud-based collaboration tools with larger enterprise software suites. The latest comes from SAP, who has expanded their existing partnership with Microsoft...
Tags: scalability, scalable, agility, wfa, wfh, work from anywhere, work from home, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise cloud, enterprise transformation, network transformation, cloud transformation, cloud, ucaas, salesforce, Slack, enterprise IT, teams Monitoring, Azure Cloud, Azure, Microsoft Cloud, SAP Cloud, SAP, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft
With the pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt a work-from-anywhere posture, Microsoft has emerged as the enterprise go-to for scalable and agile cloud solutions, pushing the company’s Q2 quarterly revenue to a higher-than-expected $43.1 billion. This exceeds Microsoft’s quarterly revenue targets by almost $3 billion, as Microsoft’s stock was up 5 percent in after-market trading on January 26. “What we...
Tags: cloud transformation, digital transformation, network transformation, work from home, work from anywhere, remote workforce, remote work, enterprise IT, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, cloud migration, cloud adoption, enterprise cloud, cloud computing, cloud, Microsoft revenue, Microsoft earnings, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft
Nearly a year into widespread work-from-home (WFH), the cracks are starting to show at some organizations who may not have primed their workforce (or their networks) for an extended absence from the office. According to research from productivity software company Asana, burnout is now being felt among the vast majority of knowledge workers as teams struggle to define and enforce...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, Microsoft Teams, teams, cloud computing, cloud, video, voice, voip, collaboration, ucaas, zoom, remote workers, remote workforce, remote work, hybrid office, wfa, work from anywhere, wfh, work from home, burnout, burn out
You can’t be blamed for feeling a bit of whiplash when reading predictions on the future of work over the past few months. While enterprise decentralization has been growing for the better part of the past decade, the pandemic-induced rush to remote work proved to many once-skeptical business leaders that the office isn’t necessarily essential to employee productivity. Still, there...
Tags: end user, end user experience, network performance monitoring, network management, cloud computing, cloud, network performance, enterprise network, distributed enterprise, distribution, decentralization, wfa, hybrid office, wfh, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work
Microsoft Teams has seen it’s popularity explode over the past year, establishing it’s position atop the highly competitive market for enterprise communication software in a time when remote collaboration has become essential. With integration and storage capabilities that, until recently, were unrivaled, it only makes sense that Teams would continue to see it’s adoption rise over the course of 2020....
Tags: network performance monitoring and diagnostics, network management, end user experience, end user experience monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, software as a service, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Monitoring, Microsoft Teams Management, ucaas, voice, video, collaboration, Office 365
The Business Intelligence Group (BIG) has recognized AppNeta as one of the 38 winners of the 2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing, cementing our status as a leader in the cloud and a trusted partner for businesses during challenging times. This latest recognition is a true testament to our solution’s ability to scale and respond to the changing conditions of...
Tags: network performance monitoring and diagnostics, network management, end user experience, end user experience monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, software as a service, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud, 2020 Stratus Awards, 2020 Awards, BIG Stratus Awards
According to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, “the most strategic combination in the history of software” took place this week as Salesforce officially acquired Slack in an all-stock deal valued at $27.7 billion. The acquisition sets up a titanic battle between Salesforce and Microsoft, as Slack is considered the primary competitor to Microsoft’s Teams collaboration platform, which has exploded in popularity...
Tags: network management, network performance monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise collaboration, collaboration software, ucaas, SaaS, enterprise software, collaboration tools, voice, video & collaboration, voice & video, voice, cloud computing, cloud, merger, customer 360, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, teams, Microsoft, salesforce, Slack
To pin the fast and furious shift in consumer attitudes over the past year on a single crisis would be impossible, as social, economic, environmental and public health issues all converged over the course of 2020 to throw every business’ best laid plans out the window. To try to measure the impact of these simultaneous changes on consumer behavior, Salesforce...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, digital channels, digital transformation, consumer tastes, consumer trends, salesforce, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise IT
Two giants of the enterprise cloud computing space made waves this week as Microsoft and Google each announced expansions to their respective Azure and Cloud platforms that are aimed squarely at fostering increased business flexibility and multi-cloud networking. During the launch at Microsoft Ignite, the company’s flagship annual developer’s conference, a greatly enhanced version of Azure was unveiled that expands...
Tags: Google Cloud, Google, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft, Azure, data center monitoring, data center cloud, data center, work from home, wfh, edge computing, edge cloud, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, cloud computing, cloud, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring
Enterprise cloud adoption continues its rapid acceleration in 2020 as a new survey from IDG found that cloud investments will account for 32 percent of total IT budgets by 2021. The report, which is compiled of reader respondents from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World tech buyer audiences, found that cloud spending is up 59 percent from 2018 levels,...
Tags: cloud, cloud, remote workforce, remote worker, remote work, wfh, work from home, end user experience, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management, cloud computing, cloud migration, cloud adoption
Enterprise cloud adoption continues its rapid acceleration in 2020 as a new survey from IDG found that cloud investments will account for 32 percent of total IT budgets by 2021. The report, which is compiled of reader respondents from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World tech buyer audiences, found that cloud spending is up 59 percent from 2018 levels,...
Tags: cloud, cloud, remote workforce, remote worker, remote work, wfh, work from home, end user experience, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management, cloud computing, cloud migration, cloud adoption
Cloud computing has been viewed as “the way forward” for enterprises for years, but it took a global pandemic for many companies to finally push ahead on their wide-scale cloud migrations. And while many teams had to rush their enterprise-grade cloud transformations to support a suddenly decentralized network footprint, now that the steady march to the cloud has begun, there’s...
Tags: enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, cloud awards, network performance monitoring, network management, network performance, ucaas, SaaS, cloud apps, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
While offices across the globe have been inching closer to reopening in fits and starts over the past few weeks, a new report from Xerox has found that 85 percent of IT and tech decision makers expect they’ll finally be back in the office within the next 18 months. The report found that the biggest pain point for a third...
Tags: office life, Xerox, pandemic, COVID 19, tech jobs, IT jobs, enterprise IT, remote workforce, remote workers, remote work, wfh, work from home, cloud computing, cloud
A survey of 1,283 software engineers, technical leads, and IT decision-makers from across the globe found that 45 percent planned to move the majority of their apps to the cloud in 2020. While 88 percent already rely on cloud infrastructure in some form or another, almost half planned to shift three quarters or more of their workflows into the cloud...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, cloud applications, SaaS, cloud apps, enterprise apps, containerization, containers, hybrid cloud, enterprise cloud, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
Microsoft Build, one of four tentpole developer conferences held annually, kicked off its first-ever completely virtual edition this week with a slew of announcements that confirm the tech giant is betting big on cloud – and not letting COVID-19 slow them down. With Facebook’s F8 conference postponed and Google’s I/O conference cancelled, Microsoft Build is the first major developer gathering...
Tags: network management, enterprise networks, network monitoring, network management, enterprise, enterprise IT, Microsoft Azure, Azure, supercomputing, supercomputer, cloud computing, cloud, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft build, Microsoft
COVID-19 has been a game-changer across the enterprise space, forcing everyone from the C-Suite to the factory floor to modify their workflows and embrace new tech as part of their day-to-day operations. A new report from Wind River shows that many enterprise executives aren’t viewing these sudden changes as stop-gap measures or short-term fixes before returning to the old way...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, enterprise WAN, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise, container, cloud, network performance monitoring, cloud apps, containerization, containers, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud
COVID-19 has been a game-changer across the enterprise space, forcing everyone from the C-Suite to the factory floor to modify their workflows and embrace new tech as part of their day-to-day operations. A new report from Wind River shows that many enterprise executives aren’t viewing these sudden changes as stop-gap measures or short-term fixes before returning to the old way...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, enterprise WAN, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise, container, cloud, network performance monitoring, cloud apps, containerization, containers, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud
The 2020 State of the Cloud report from Flexera finds that multicloud deployments remain the enterprise networking strategy du jour this year, even if (or, perhaps specifically because) COVID-19 has thrown previous transformation plans off course. The report found that 93 percent of companies have a strategy to use multiple providers – specifically Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google...
Tags: hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud, enterprise cloud, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, cloud adoption, cloud migration, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud computing, multi cloud, multicloud, cloud
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According to a recent survey, 81 percent of IT professionals believe that the majority of data center and network management tasks performed today will be automated by 2025, driven in large part by the rise of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. What’s more, 66 percent of those polled think the on-premises data center will become a relic of the...
Tags: hybrid cloud, multicloud, on premises, data center, cloud migration, cloud adoption, cloud, cloud computing, cloud transformation, digital transformation, enterprise WAN, enterprise, enterprise IT, network performance, network monitoring, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
Measuring API Performance with AppNeta’s HTTP Monitoring We live in a world of interconnected web services. When someone uses a web application, for instance, that app almost always utilizes other web services, which may in turn use another set of web services, and so on. Web services, through their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), increasingly represent critical business resources that contribute,...
Tags: ucaas, SaaS, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, digital transformation, information technology, enterprise WAN, network management, enterprise monitoring, network monitoring, HTTP monitoring, API monitoring, API, HTTP, enterprise IT, network performance monitoring
In nearly every field imaginable, digital transformation is paving the way for improved efficiencies, from self check-in at hotels to finance apps upending the way we bank. But in healthcare, improving “the business” goes hand-in-hand with saving lives, or at the very least keeping individuals and their data safe and well – areas where digital transformation could theoretically be making...
Tags: mri, x rays, medical imaging, imaging, HITECH, HIPAA, EHR, EHRs, electronic health records, patient data, healthcare data, data, network performance monitoring, network performance, cloud computing, cloud, digital transformation, healthcare digital transformation, healthcare
Not only are branch offices growing in number as enterprises ramp up decentralization, but so is the data being generated at the branch and where that traffic goes. With IaaS and SaaS transforming how apps are delivered to branch locations, these offices are increasingly connecting to both cloud providers and their corporate data centers (if not retiring their dependency on...
Tags: public cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, IT, enterprise IT, enterprise network, enterprise WAN, SDWAN, SD WAN, MPLS, IaaS, SaaS, remote workforce, remote workers, remote work, work from home, remote location, remote office, branch office, WIFI6, WIFI, 5G, internet of things, IoT
In our 2020 Enterprise App Report Card, we touched upon the fact that Microsoft’s comprehensive Office 365 suite of enterprise productivity and collaboration tools is relatively unrivaled among AppNeta customers in terms of sheer users. But the software pioneer may soon be facing some stiff competition from another nearly-ubiquitous tech giant, as it was recently announced that Google is looking...
Tags: enterprise IT, enterprise, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Office 365, enterprise applications, applications, SaaS, ucaas, unified communications, UC, Google Cloud, Google, cloud computing, cloud, network performance monitoring
A recent report from Synergy Research Group that rounds up the decade’s biggest trends in IT spending was at times both predictable and a bit of a head-scratcher. For starters, in 2010, the amount of budget that IT teams were allocating to cloud infrastructure services was practically non-existent. This isn’t altogether surprising, as the cloud as we know it today...
Tags: enterprise WAN, WAN, enterprise network, IT, enterprise IT, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, data center
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Last week, the AppNeta team took to Las Vegas for the 2020 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference, where leaders and learners across the tech landscape converged to discuss where things stand today and get a sense of the future of enterprise networking. As expected, the many flavors of network “transformation” underway across the enterprise space was...
Tags: SaaS, cloud, cloud computing, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, software defined wide area network, software defined WAN, WAN, SD WAN, artificial intelligence, AIOps, network performance monitoring, networking, IT ops, IT, IOCS, gartner IOCS, gartner
With AWS re:Invent taking place in Las Vegas this week, ‘cloud’ and all of its associated buzzwords will be the talk of the tech industry (not to say that cloud is ever that far from the tech headlines). That’s because event host Amazon is set to unveil a bevy of new products that are aimed squarely at making cloud migration...
Tags: network performance monitoring, AWS re:Invent, re:Invent, Amazon cloud, AWS, Amazon, networking technology, network technology, networking, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
As heated as the “streaming wars” already were between cable-killing pioneers like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, a pair of new streamers are making a late entrance into the fray, backed by billions of investment dollars and some of the largest brand recognition of this or any industry. Disney+ and Apple TV+ both launched over the past two weeks, following what...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, enterprise networks, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, Apple TV plus, Apple TV, Apple, Disney plus, Disney, streaming wars, streaming
At 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969, UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and his student Charley Kline established an ARPANET link – the first one ever – between their campus and the office of Bill Duval, a programmer at Stanford University. And thus, the seeds of what would become the Internet we know today were planted. And 50 years later, the...
Tags: network management, networking, network, IoT, internet of things, industry 4.0, cloud, network performance monitoring, connectivity, arpanet, internet
Election season is in full swing in the United States, and perhaps one of the more unexpected talking points to grab headlines following the latest round of debates is the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — also known commonly in the networking world as Industry 4.0. Politics aside, this “revolution” truly does represent a major shift in the ways we think about...
Tags: cloud, VR, AI, manufacturing, digital transformation, fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0, automation, cloud computing
Enterprise networks are getting faster and more efficient by the day. But while technology seems to evolve and advance at a breakneck pace these days, the humans in charge of managing new tech aren’t always able to keep up. That’s one of the main takeaways of a recent report from the Uptime Institute, which surveyed thousands of IT pros and...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, developers, human error, data center
The days are getting shorter and the nights colder, which means year-end prediction season is upon us again. As 2019 comes to a close, businesses across industries have had to reckon with significant changes driven by digital transformation and a greater reliance on connected technologies to drive business success. But as fast and furious as the rate of change may...
Tags: edge computing, edge, big data and analytics, BDA, big data, CTO, CIO, network monitoring, cloud migration, cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, enterprise technology, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, 2020 predictions, 2020
According to a recent Salesforce report, 71 percent of enterprise IT teams are transforming from “a technology-providing cost center to a value-based service brokerage.” What does that mean exactly? For starters, the IT department of the past was very much a reactionary operation. That’s not to say that IT teams were always playing catch up, but actually the opposite: The...
Tags: web apps, web applications, SaaS, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise IT, cloud computing, cloud
Slack vs. Teams: Latest tech “arms race” centers on enterprise communications tools
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Since the earliest days of Silicon Valley, competing tech companies have always been engaged in a virtual arms race for loyal users. Whether it’s PC versus Mac, or AWS versus Azure, there always seem to be at least two dueling behemoths involved whenever a new technology takes the scene. As we’ve covered in recent posts, communication software seems to be...
Tags: ucaas, teams, Slack, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft, messaging apps, communication apps, cloud, applications
When it comes to working in tech, being in the “right zipcode” is no longer the barrier to entry that it was in years past, a report from CompTIA suggests. In the company’s Tech on the Move survey, 78 percent of tech workers polled would consider leaving their current city for a new tech job, with affordability (60 percent) and...
Tags: branch office, cloud, cloud computing, network monitoring, network monitoring tools, network performance monitoring, remote locations, remote work, remote workers, tech workers
When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live a year ago, companies across the globe were bracing for the sky to fall. And while there were certainly some headline-grabbing fines for noncompliance (most notably, Google’s almost 50 million Euro hit this past January related to “forced consent”), the mandate’s first year was far less “doom and gloom”...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, compliance, EU, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, regulatory technology
Last week, the AppNeta team traveled down to Dallas for ONUG Spring 2019, where we met with other leaders in the enterprise networking space to discuss the challenges and solutions organizations face as they put connected technologies front-and-center. The agenda for the event zeroed in on Digital Transformation in particular, which, as a concept, can be loaded. As we’ve discussed...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud migration, digital transformation, network performance, network performance monitoring, network performance monitoring and diagnostics, ONUG, ONUG Spring 2019
Remote work is by no means a new concept, but recent high-profile announcements suggest that this model is fast graduating from “a novel approach” to an operational standard across industries. At Facebook’s recent F8 2019 developer conference, for instance, Stripe, a tech platform that builds economic infrastructure for web companies, announced that the company would be opening up a fifth...
Tags: branch office, cloud, cloud computing, cloud monitoring, digital transformation, network performance, network performance monitoring, remote office, remote work
While consensus over what digital transformation actually means still appears to elude many members of the C-Suite, enterprise investment into the concept has never been higher, according to a recent report from IDC. Across virtually every industry and sector, total spending on digital transformation will jump roughly 18 percent in 2019 to a new high-water mark of $1.18 trillion. Gearing...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, digital transformation, finance, industrial IoT, industry 4.0, IoT, manufacturing, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, tech industry
Network monitoring solutions, by design, should help bring clarity into your management stack. Armed with this clarity, your team can start taking rote tasks out of your day-to-day to help streamline network management from the ground up. Every convenience we can provide -- no matter the scale -- to help speed up deployment or make AppNeta Performance Manager easier to...
Tags: AppNeta Performance Manager, cloud, cloud computing, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, SaaS, SaaS scripts, templates
In an age when “appointment television” is a nearly-dead concept (outside of Game of Thrones at least), people still go out of their way to make sure they catch their favorite team or player live. We’ve seen it firsthand here at AppNeta. Take the latest Masters Tournament: Ahead of Tiger Woods taking home his first title trophy in over a...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud monitoring, network, network capacity, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, sports streaming, streaming, streaming services
Last week, the AppNeta team took to the Great White North to host an industry luncheon and panel in Toronto, looking at the challenges of network management as cloud takes on a bigger role in the enterprise space. Moderated by our own Chief Customer Officer Adam Edwards, the panel also included John Menezes, President & CEO of Stratejm, Alfred Ng,...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud visibility, enterprise, enterprise network, finance, finance tech, industry commentary, network performance, network performance monitoring, tech industry, toronto
IPv4, the previous and still prevalent generation of the Internet Protocol, was designed to support roughly 4.3 billion devices. While this was plenty of capacity for the connected world of 1980, it’s tiny by 2019 standards. While it’s not yet true that every one of the planet’s 7 billion people is armed with their own connected devices, it’s increasingly true...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, internet protocol, IP, ipv4, IPv6, network performance, network performance monitoring
Enterprise IT and network ops teams may not appear to have much in common with the names on your NCAA March Madness bracket. But in both arenas, teams need to be masters of strategy, cooperation, and fast thinking in order to succeed. That’s because just like college basketball, network monitoring and management requires having both a strong offense and defense....
Tags: cloud, DIA, march madness, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, SD WAN
There’s no denying that the SD-WAN market is having a moment. After sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment on the 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle, SD-WAN was firmly on the Slope of Enlightenment for 2018, and continues to build both momentum and advocacy as the decade comes to a close. What’s attractive about SD-WAN is that it doesn’t force teams to...
Tags: cloud, cloud analytics, cloud computing, cloud performance, network performance monitoring, NPM, NPMD, SD WAN, SD WAN monitoring, SDWAN, software defined, software defined networking
Delivering visibility is central to everything we do at AppNeta. Not only does our platform allow enterprise IT to see into all corners of their network, but transparency and clarity is central to how we operate as a company, too. It’s fitting, therefore, that AppNeta was named a Visionary in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and...
Tags: application performance, cloud, gartner, Magic Quadrant, network performance monitoring, network performance monitoring and diagnostics, NPM, NPMD, SaaS, SaaS applications
While you’d be hard pressed to find a contemporary networking pro who still refers to the Internet as the “Information Superhighway,” the metaphor isn’t totally off-base. The Internet as we know it, after all, is a massive dynamic network of pathways that connect a global collection of enterprise- or ISP-owned Autonomous Systems (AS). Data travels over the Internet like cars...
Tags: Autonomous System, BGP, BGP monitoring, cloud, direct internet access, DNS, DNS performance, internet, network performance monitoring
Thanks in no small part to the widespread adoption of cloud technology, many of the biggest enterprise success stories of the recent past revolve around a business’ ability to support a distributed workforce. The benefits of this model are easy to see: Teams aren’t confined to the four walls of a central office, which opens up the pool of talent...
Tags: cloud, cloud infrastructure, IT infrastructure, network performance monitoring, remote office, SaaS
Enterprise IT and end users alike tend to take the Domain Name System (DNS) for granted. While those who don’t work in network operations might not even know what DNS is -- let alone the central role it plays in making the Internet a space humans can navigate -- even IT often just expects the system to always perform. DNS...
Tags: cloud, cloud applications, DNS, DNS monitoring, end user experience, end user experience monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring
It was a busy week for the AppNeta team at the 2018 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, where we chatted with dozens of IT pros on the show floor. This is a new combination for Gartner, bringing IT Operations and Data Center disciplines together, which made for some very interesting discussions around migration and the pain associated...
Tags: application performance, best practices, cloud, cloud infrastructure, data center, end user experience, gartner, IT, IT infrastructure, performance monitoring
Weekly Packet: All Cloud, All the Time
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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 the talk and hype about...
Tags: cloud, cloud infrastructure, cloud trends
Weekly Packet: Airplanes, Unplugged; Various States of Infrastructure
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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 to backups after power went...
Tags: cloud, hybrid cloud, industry commentary, outages
Weekly Packet: Gold-Medal Tech, Your Cloud Shopping List
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Christine Cignoli
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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 the winners, I suppose. Technology...
Weekly Packet: Post-Brexit Cloud, and Why to Keep Apps On-Premises
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Christine Cignoli
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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, since strict data regulations had...
Tags: AWS, cloud, on premises applications
Combating Enterprise IT Ops Challenges in China
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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 remote locations in heavily regulated...
Tags: APM, AppView, China, cloud, end user experience, GreatFirewall, internet, ITOps, network, performance monitoring, remote performance management, SaaS
Once found mostly in small- and medium-sized business environments, software as a service (SaaS) has now established itself firmly as the preferred solution for new software deployment in the enterprise. Concerns about security and control have been overshadowed by the low entry cost and fast ramp-up of SaaS solutions compared with in-house deployments. Marketing no longer has to wait weeks...
Tags: APM, cloud, end user experience, monitoring technology, packets, SaaS
Office 365: What to Consider As You Migrate
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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. That’s because business cloud applications...
Tags: APM, best practices, cloud, NPM, Office 365
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 professionals with visibility into the...
Tags: APM, cloud, Google Apps, SaaS, ServiceNow
Announcing SAM: SaaS Application Monitoring
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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 tools insufficient for monitoring SaaS...
Tags: APM, application performance, cloud, features, full stack, SaaS
Internet Slowdown Day: Too Painful to be Real?
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TR Jordan
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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 into what the internet would...
Tags: APM, application performance, apps, cloud, monitoring technology
Down for Everybody? Wednesday's Fantasy Football Draft
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Here at AppNeta we have a tradition of creating a Fantasy Football league every year. Each year we decide who the commissioner is and then we start the grueling process of selecting draft order, league rules, team names, date of draft and most importantly selecting the platform to draft on. Our league consists of members of the management, engineering, customer...
Real-Time Operational Insight into AppNeta using ElasticSearch
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AppNeta’s customers deploy thousands of appliances at customer locations across the globe. These appliances continuously collect data about target applications and networks, then store and analyze it from a cloud-based management system. Management of these appliances is not an easy task. They are often installed in remote locations where local IT staff is not readily available or not fully aware...
Tags: APM, application deployment, apps, best practices, cloud, devops, monitoring technology
When a Salesforce downtime occurs, it gets a lot of notice. You see it picked up on Twitter and in the press. With 93,000 customers around the globe, Salesforce is the poster child for SaaS services. Whenever there’s an issue, people start to question it and cloud services in general. If you look at the numbers, Salesforce is actually much...
Tags: APM, best practices, cloud, monitoring technology, SaaS
A recent analyst firm research paper commented that organizations that have the capability for measuring the quality of the end user experience are twice as likely as other companies to improve their brand reputation and 75% more likely to improve employee productivity. This comment validates that you need to measure the end-user experience, but it also suggests that if you...
As companies turn to SaaSas a low cost, highly scalable, and agile way to host new applications, a number of cloud performance management and monitoring solutions are appearing. Salesforce led the CRMs in moving off of dedicated hardware, and other types of applications like email, project planning, and even EHR have followed suit. Moving away from installed software side-steps a...
Tags: APM, bandwidth, best practices, cloud, monitoring technology, SaaS
Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing - How to Secure your Cloud Servers
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Noel Sequeira
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One of the many challenges facing organizations these days is that certain parts of the business are either moving to SaaS or is already in the cloud. This brings a unique problem for everyone responsible for maintaining the web applications' availability, performance, and functionality. Organizations often struggle to secure and protect business and customer data. In the past, all the...
Tags: APM, application deployment, best practices, cloud, SaaS, technology
Only two years ago, the average company adopting SaaS applications was a 50-person company, mainly because smaller companies were inclined to not invest in on-premise solutions. Since then, there’s been a shift and SaaS has become the standard for any company implementing business applications or services. Even the largest companies in the world are now adopting SaaS applications and services,...
Tags: APM, application performance, apps, cloud, full stack, monitoring technology, SaaS
The Hidden Cost of Multiple Tools
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TR Jordan
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As application deployments get more complex, the tools to make sure they're working have certainly more than kept up. Not only do we have tools to monitor hardware health, but there are tools to measure network performance, application performance, and resource usage for every conceivable piece of every system. Unfortunately, collecting data for data’s sake doesn’t keep any application running,...
Tags: APM, best practices, cloud, monitoring technology, NPM
AppNeta announces new performance tools for high-altitude cloud applications, partnership with National Weather Service
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Chris Erway
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For immediate release Boston, Vancouver, and Providence (April 1, 2014) — Full-stack application performance management software maker AppNeta today announced a suite of new features aimed at helping developers and IT professionals understand the performance of apps deployed in the cloud — literally. “We’re always watching the skies for new developments in the cloud space,” said Capt. Jim Melvin, CEO of...
Introducing CloudView
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AppNeta expands Full Stack Performance Management offerings with the release of its cutting edge CloudView system, a robust Cloud insight platform launching today. After spending a long weekend stuck in an airport due to a minor luggage misunderstanding in Columbia, AppNeta rockstar engineer Pat Neap returned home recently under totally legitimate and customs compliant circumstances to unveil a ground breaking...
Tags: cloud, full stack
AppNeta Recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for NPMD
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Only SaaS Company Named to both APM and NPMD Magic Quadrants BOSTON — March 24, 2013 — AppNeta, the leading provider of full stack application performance management solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics.”[1]For a complimentary copy of the report, visit www.appneta.com. According to...
What is a Path? A Path is the network connection from a source to a target, specifically measuring the maximum end to end performance achievable. For example a Path from our office here in Boston to the Salesforce.com instance we use (NA2) located outside of Chicago consists of 12 layer 3 network hops. We have a 100Mbps symmetric internet connection...
Tags: cloud, jitter, latency, monitoring technology, PathView
As an engineering team we strive to find the right balance between aggressively building out product capabilities and managing technical debt. At AppNeta we have hardened our process to define and manage this balance. Our current process involves virtual teams who break away from the feature development at hand to focus on technical debt in a specific product area for...
Tags: application development, best practices, cloud, devops, technology
Comparison Views in AppView Web
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Just before the holidays, we made a pair of big announcements: in addition to our first year on the Magic Quadrant for APM, we’ve just increased TraceView’s data retention to an industry-leading 90 days of full data. But we’re constantly releasing new features, and we didn’t want those stories to overshadow the launch of Comparison Views for AppView Web. While I’m...
Tags: AppView, best practices, cloud, devops, features
Gartner Recognizes AppNeta as a Market Challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
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Leigh Merrigan
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Boston-based AppNeta evaluated for completeness of vision and ability to execute BOSTON — January 6, 2013 — AppNeta, the leading provider of Full Stack Application Performance Management solutions, today announced that Gartner has positioned AppNeta as a Challenger in the “2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Management.” For a complimentary copy of the report, visit www.appneta.com. "AppNeta’s integrated, cross-platform...
Tags: APM, cloud, full stack, SaaS
AppNeta in Gartner's APM Magic Quadrant!
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We’ve had an exciting few months at AppNeta, and the great news keeps rolling in. I am thrilled to announce that AppNeta’s Application Performance Monitoring services have been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring alongside AppDynamics, BMC, CA, Compuware, Dell, HP, IBM, ManageEngine, Microsoft, New Relic, Optier, and Riverbed. We are honored that Gartner has recognized...
Tags: APM, application performance, CEO Notes, cloud, full stack
AppView Web Global: Now with Free Trial!
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Today, we launched an important milestone for AppView Web: free trials for everybody! Monitoring performance has historically been a cumbersome process, including multiple phone calls with sales reps, paperwork trades back and forth, and delays that give any performance problem more than enough time to go away on its own. AppView Web's unique outside-in perspective eliminates almost all of the...
Tags: application performance, AppView Web, cloud, features, SaaS
What’s Ahead in 2013: 10 IT Performance Management Predictions
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2013 is poised to be an exciting and innovative year for technical professionals across roles and functions, regardless of their organization size. From emerging Software-Defined Networks, to mobile, BYOD and the solidification of cloud computing and SOA architectures, there are many upcoming trends that should impact your performance monitoring strategy in 2013. Are you ready to arm yourself with the...
Tags: byod, cloud, end user experience, SOA, unified performance management
The 5 Critical Things You Need to Know to Assure Optimal Performance in the Cloud
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Cloud computing is likely to be the most exciting and transformative revolution in the history of modern IT. To keep pace with the rapid IT developments, companies must transform themselves from inward-facing corporate operators to interconnected, highly agile business network orchestrators running in the cloud. Think about it: Are your sales reps using Salesforce? Do you have an online community/support...
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3 Reasons to Upgrade your SNMP Strategy
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For more than 20 years, SNMP monitoring was the default approach to network performance management. It was your only option, but this just isn’t the case anymore. Application components are no longer delivered just from your datacenter, but are delivered from private clouds and from third-party services hosted outside of your control zone in the public cloud with multiple potential...
Cloud-Delivered Network Performance Management – Why YOU Need it
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The advantages of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) versus on-premise deployments are well known. Among the most notable from an IT perspective are: Remote, hassle free upgrades and maintenance, shorter deployment time and no configurations (minutes vs. months for a phased implementation) Cost savings in infrastructure and human resource requirements Reduced business risk due to lower upfront costs and faster implementation But even...
The Importance of Easily Deployable Network Performance Management Solutions
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Network performance management solutions are supposed to make IT’s job easier, but implementing the solution can be a nightmare. IT departments just don’t have the budget or the staff to deal with traditional network performance management solutions that require software to be purchased and installed, or that demand manual software installation, configuration and upgrades. Deployment also encompasses not just what it...
Tags: cloud, flow analysis, NPM, SaaS
Verifying Network Performance SLAs
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Service-level agreements (SLAs) are an interesting concept because unless there is a major disruption, it is difficult to guarantee they are being met daily. How do you know your carrier is meeting the requirements you are paying for? And if you are a carrier, how can you prove to your clients that you are delivering the service as agreed? Network...
Managing Branch Office Network Performance in the Cloud Era
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An increase in cloud services means more remote office-based users than ever. According to studies by Gartner and others, 85% to 90% of the average company’s employees now work away from the main corporate office taking full advantage of our cloud era. Those remote workers still need the same high-quality experience of application access and performance as employees at headquarters, especially...
Tags: cloud, remote networks, SaaS
Network Performance Management: A Look Back to 2006
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Remember when data, video and voice networks were separate? Before cloud was a buzz word, cellphones were only for calls, virtualization was in its infancy and what’s an iPad? Considering all of these changes, it seems an impossible job for network teams to maintain high functioning networks and applications with the flood of changes we have experienced throughout the IT...
Tags: byod, cloud, NPM, SaaS, virtualization
The Network Engineer’s Cheat Sheet for 2012
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2011 could be considered the year that network performance management “came of age.” In this past year, IT and network managers in organizations of all sizes and industry segments have become aware — if they weren’t already — that the performance of the network is the foundation of user experience and business success. Why was 2011 such a pivotal year...
Tags: bandwidth, cloud, jitter, latency, packets, streaming media, virtualization
Show Me the Bandwidth
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Security is a well-known risk with cloud applications, but…what about bandwidth? More and more businesses are looking to cut costs and improve end customer experience by moving customer-facing applications, storage/backup solutions, and many other applications to distributed data centers in the cloud. If users experience performance or latency problems due to insufficient network bandwidth, such as slow, stalling or failed...
Cloud Services: Friend or Foe to the MSP?
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Many managed service providers (MSPs) that once viewed cloud computing as a competitive threat are now building their own cloud services portfolios, often with the support of public cloud services or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Partnering spares MSPs the capital expense of building and maintaining world-class, massively scalable IT infrastructure while minimizing operational and engineering...
Streaming Media at the Workplace: Your Music Hurts My Cloud
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For organizations that are monitoring and maintaining a large network, bandwidth consumption can cause major issues. Knowing who is using all the bandwidth in the company is particularly helpful when troubleshooting performance issues and all too common complaints that “the network is slow!” Insight into what external web sites employees are visiting, and whether or not those sites are work-related...
Tags: bandwidth, cloud, network speed, PathView Cloud, streaming media
Virtualization vs. Cloud Computing FAQ
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Server virtualization and cloud computing are often talked about – even by service providers — as if the terms were interchangeable. This is, in part, because both were developed to solve a similar business problem: more computing with less resources. Virtualization is amongst the technologies used to provide cloud computing services. The core difference is management of the hardware; virtualization...
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OpenFlow: Your Remote Control to Network Management?
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It is a long accepted practice to build three-tier data center LANs based on access, distribution and core switches. But now data center LANs are being re-architected to meet the demands of virtualization, SaaS and cloud computing. The question now is, what architectures and technologies are appropriate for this new purpose? For example, what is the best alternative to the...
Tags: cloud, LAN, NPM, SaaS, virtualization
CEO Notes: Another Benefit of Cloud Computing…Elastic means SMALL too!
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You have to admit that we are really good at dreaming up new terms in the world of technology; and every now and then (ok, more often than not), the first time you hear these new terms it can really make you pause. I can remember the first time I heard the term “virtual appliance” a couple of years ago...
Network Troubleshooting in Today’s Distributed Data Center
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Today’s distributed data centers, with their layers upon layers of virtual and physical devices and systems, are dauntingly complex and getting more so every day. The accelerating adoption of IP-based services like cloud computing, virtual desktop infrastructure and unified communications is further compounding this complexity, while also massively increasing the scope of the network. All this growth and change confounds...
Tags: cloud, NPM, PathView Cloud, unified communications
Managing Network Performance for High Security Networks and Private Clouds
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Why are more and more organizations building their own clouds, often in addition to leveraging the cost and scalability advantages of private cloud services? For many heavily regulated businesses, such as financial services and healthcare firms, demands for the highest levels of security for sensitive data have made private cloud alternatives more appealing. Private clouds also optimize the ability to...
Tags: cloud, NPM, PathView Cloud
The Growing Need for Network Performance Management in Higher Education
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The education industry is embracing cloud computing more rapidly than any other sector excluding large enterprises. According to recent studies by IDC and CDW, today more than one-third of higher education IT departments are either implementing or maintaining cloud-based systems. Among the most compelling benefits that cloud-based services offer educational institutions are: Low-cost, anytime/anywhere accessibility to high-end computing resources The...
Tags: cloud, higher education, NPM, SaaS
Is Your Organization Ready to Move to the Cloud?
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Today, many organizations are contemplating how to harness the power of Cloud Computing in order to streamline their IT processes and make their daily computing lives easier — but how many organizations are actually ready to make the switch from the desktop to the Cloud? The many benefits of cloud computing include: the ability to access your data wherever you are;...
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Managing Network Performance of Cloud Services in Healthcare
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There’s no question that the healthcare sector is rapidly embracing cloud computing. Recent studies by IDC and CDW both show that one-third of healthcare organizations are already implementing or maintaining cloud-based systems – ranking third among sectors polled, just behind large enterprises and higher education. Healthcare IT organizations estimate spending 21% of their budgets on cloud computing over the next...
Tags: cloud, EHR, healthcare, NPM, virtualization
5 Myths About Network Performance Management
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With the meteoric rise in enterprise deployments of IP-based services, network performance management has joined security at the top of every CTO’s list of concerns. It has become imperative to monitor end-to-end network performance from the point of delivery to the point of consumption from the user’s perspective, in order to know whether service levels are being met. For many...
Why Moving to the Cloud Demands Network Performance Management
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The stampede to cloud computing is rapidly altering the design and delivery of IT services. From lower startup costs to lower total cost of ownership to scalability on demand, cloud-based deployments are increasingly considered the most cost- and time-effective approach to rolling out new IT services. But the move to the cloud is not without its challenges, particularly from the...
Life as a Healthcare CIO: Network Performance Challenges of Rolling Out EHR…
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We wanted to share the following blog post from Life as a Healthcare CIO by John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston. Today’s post names PathView Cloud as the Cool Technology of the Week. Cool Technology of the Week How many times have you heard the complaint “the application is slow” but lack data about server, network,...
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Achieving the Value of Cloud Services: Guest Post from Analyst Jim Metzler
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One of my concerns about the use of public cloud computing services is the tradeoff that IT organizations typically have had to make. On the positive side of the tradeoff, by using a public cloud service companies lower their cost and gain access to functionality that they normally would not have access to. Those are both compelling reasons to use public...
If You Thought You Couldn’t Afford Netflow Analysis – Think Again
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We like to celebrate our history! Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from its inception as Apparent Networks. Thanks to multiple snowballing trends like cloud computing, SaaS, virtual desktops, IP storage, mobility and Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C), more and more companies are delivering critical, network-dependent IT services to more and more remote users. The adoption of Cloud...
Tags: cloud, flow analysis, FlowView, NPM, PathView Cloud
The Next Generation in Web Services Demands the Next Generation in Network Performance Management Solutions
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Web-based service delivery models like cloud computing, SaaS and VoIP are revolutionizing IT. These distributed deployments offer cost, scalability and manageability advantages too compelling to pass up. But the performance of web-based applications is heavily dependent on the networks that deliver them to remote sites. A host of variable, intermittent factors can crash business-critical services. Network issues like jitter, packet...
Tags: cloud, NPM, remote performance management, SaaS, voip
Who’s Managing the Performance of Your Cloud Applications?
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Are you considering moving business-critical applications like e-mail, financial management, backup/recovery and CRM to the cloud? Or maybe you’re already on your way? It’s clear that cloud computing has arrived, and businesses of all sizes are taking advantage of it even faster than initially predicted. Gartner rates it as the top strategic technology for 2011, and surveys from MarketBridge, IBM...
Tags: APM, cloud, jitter, latency, packets, remote performance management
Hybrid Cloud: An Appliance for Every Garage
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The siren song of “The Cloud” draws the over-worked and under-appreciated I.T. leaders from around the globe thanks to the phenomenal, inherent benefits of scale (both up and down), cost and flexibility. Yet, despite the obvious appeal, the practical realities of meshing internal, production-level networks and their related management systems with services offered from the public cloud are daunting to...
Tags: cloud, microappliance, PathView, PathView Cloud
Get Smart About Cloud Services
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Jocelyn Saurini
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We are all witnessing a dramatic shift from traditional network infrastructures to web-based, cloud based hosted services. A rapidly growing number of organizations are taking the leap: to hosted email, disaster recovery, exchange, and CRM. By leveraging economies of scale, cloud based services can offer significant cost savings, versatile capabilities and low maintenance compared to traditional on -premise solutions. With...
LinkedIn Connectivity Problems? What We Found….
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Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from the early days…Read on! With the growing frenzy over cloud-based services and the recent announcements about managed cloud services, it is clear that we are looking at the future of business technology, one that merges critical business services with the cost efficiency, speed and easy integration of the internet. But, as...
Check your RPMs before you jump into Cloud Services
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It is a sign of the times that I need to clearly define the term “cloud services” if I am going to use it as an entry point to this blog. And since I wouldn’t dare assert my position to be expert enough to properly define this term (any attempt would surely bog down this entire effort), I will turn...
Tags: cloud, jitter, latency, virtualization, voip
The Cloud is Here: The 5 Steps You Need to Do to Survive and Thrive
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The cloud is coming, the cloud is coming!!! Well guess what, if it’s not here now, it’s damn close. And if you think you can avoid it or beat it you’re dead wrong. As they say, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em. So what can you do? 1. Accept it. The 90’s economy is gone. No we aren’t in a recession, we’re in...
Cloud Performance – Why Long Distance Relationships Don’t Work
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As companies turn to the Cloud as a low cost, highly scalable and agile way to save on their infrastructure cost or to host new applications, a number of cloud performance testing and monitoring solutions are appearing. There are applications popping up to perform load testing against your cloud infrastructure, some of which are even developed and hosted by the...
Why Apparent Networks Uses a SaaS model
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We like to celebrate our history! Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from its inception as Apparent Networks. According to Gartner, 95 percent of surveyed organizations plan to increase or maintain SaaS deployments, stating that cost savings are the biggest benefit for the appeal SaaS products. Unlike traditional applications that require a lump-sum investment and time to deploy...
Tags: cloud, PathView, PathView Cloud, SaaS
LAG: The Network Application Killer
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We like to celebrate our history! Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from its inception as Apparent Networks. If you’re suffering from slow application performance, chances are you’re suffering from some degree of latency. As everyone knows, each computer has its own performance limits. With one too many applications, lag will result from the inability of the computer...
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‘Democratizing’ Enterprise Software
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Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from the early days…Read on! Software industry has changed; free PathView Cloud tool shows how Not long ago, lots of software companies were focused on developing big solutions and selling them to the biggest customers they could. Board members and senior management wanted deal sizes that were high and trending higher. So...
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Make your Cloud Stand Out
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Last weekend at a family get together I was filling my role as the in-family IT guy by explaining Cloud-based business services to some family members. They were moderately interested until I pointed out that by using all of these Internet-based services like SalesForce.com and Gmail, they are already “in the cloud”. This begs the question: when the whole point...
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Retire Your Network Diagrams
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Retire network diagrams, you say? How will you know where the servers are? What about the network connecting everything together? Isn’t this stuff important? Yes, absolutely! All of the above is important, but the details are becoming increasingly less important to you. Network diagrams are a great for documenting the details of all the pieces that come together to delivery...
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Layers, Encapsulation & Path
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Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from the early days…Read on! While building AppCritical Version 3.6, our development team had many spirited discussions about the underpinnings of networked services and applications. Services delivered over a network have been around since…well, since before the Internet. This isn’t a history lesson so we can skip the details. What’s important is...
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Regional Cloud Innovation
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Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from the early days…Read on! Scott Kirsner recently wrote a great Boston Sunday Globe story and related blog post on the innovation coming out of the Boston area relating to cloud computing. There’s no question that cloud computing is having a dramatic impact on the way we think about networks and how...
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Managing the Cloud
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We like to celebrate our history! Our legacy blog entries tell the AppNeta story from it's inception as Apparent Networks. Our customer announcement with BCS Global today really highlights two key points. First, whether you’re a provider or a consumer of cloud-based applications or services, it’s very likely that you are experiencing management challenges with those services. Second, for innovative...
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