The Observability and APM markets have existed for a long time and have undergone periodic reinventions driven by changes in the technology stack and how customers build, deploy and run applications in production. Such a...
Read MoreThe nature of the cloud and the nature of the applications that enterprises are choosing to run in the cloud require that Observability solutions be used to make sure that these applications are delivering the appropriate levels...
Read MoreIBM has acquired Turbonomic. This combined with the previous acquisitions of Instana and Red Hat creates a powerful infrastructure software offering.
Read MoreAs 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 MoreOne 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 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 MoreADDM, the CMDB, ITIL and Event Management have become legacy technologies at the hands of dynamic applications, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and Kubernetes.
Read MoreObservability 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 MoreNew 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 MoreVMware 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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