IBM Acquires Turbonomic
IBM has acquired Turbonomic. This combined with the previous acquisitions of Instana and Red Hat creates a powerful infrastructure software offering.
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New Relic One Digs the Diverse Data Disruption
As the IT environment, and especially as applications evolve, the way in which they need to be monitored must evolve was well. Sometimes these changes in how things need to be monitored are not evolutions, but are in fact...
Read MoreNot Everything Should be a Microservice
One of the core developers of ISTIO (the Service Mesh designed to make deploying and operating microservices easier in production) has made a compelling case that ISTIO itself is an example of an application is is better off...
Read MoreInstana Invests in the Present of Code Diagnostics and the Future of Observability
Instana has announced the acquisition of BeeInstant (a real-time metrics analysis platform), StackImpact (a production polyglot application code profiler), and Signify a future solution to provide insight into complex system...
Read MoreRest in Peace ADDM, CMDB, ITIL and Event Management
ADDM, the CMDB, ITIL and Event Management have become legacy technologies at the hands of dynamic applications, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and Kubernetes.
Read MoreObservability Is About the Data
Observability should mean that we have the data – the logs, metrics, traces, flows and dependencies to understand the behavior of the application system of interest. Unfortunately there is no one source of all of this data for each application which is where things get complicated.
Read MoreThe Changing Physics and Economics of Monitoring
New Relic has just announced New Relic One and a focus upon “entity-centric observability”. The idea is that the set of things that need to be monitored is exploding at an exponential rate, requiring not just metrics from all of these things, but an understanding of how they relate to each other.
Read MoreThe War Between Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and VMware for the Enterprise Cloud Platform
VMware dominates the market for on-premise enterprise cloud platforms. But now you can run VMware vSphere on AWS, Azure, or Google hardware. Similarly you can run the AWS and Azure cloud platform software in on-premise hardware. This is an unprecedented level of cooperation and competition between the four major cloud platform vendors.
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