Jonah Kowall

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2013 – Application Performance Monitoring (APM) – Magic Quadrant Criteria Document Posted

by Jonah Kowall  |  February 22, 2013  |  9 Comments

We have published the inclusion criteria, and the detailed evaluation criteria here : http://www.gartner.com/resId=2328015  Clients only for this link to the published research on the criteria. All Magic Quadrants are open to all vendors who meet the inclusion criteria; if you represent a non-client vendor and think you belong in the MQ, feel free to contact [...]

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Explosion of Monitoring Mashups

by Jonah Kowall  |  June 22, 2012  |  3 Comments

There has been an explosion of these new style monitoring systems which to this point have combined system monitoring, 3rd party monitoring services, and other management technologies into a single stream of events. The products are all SaaS, and leverage other SaaS products into a new hybrid type of management “framework” geared towards agile, cloud [...]

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IT Operations Analytics are hot – Splunk IPO

by Jonah Kowall  |  April 21, 2012  |  2 Comments

With all of the buzz created in the past few weeks from the investment community around the IPO of Splunk and the pricing this week there is a renewed interest in these tools. Finishing the week up 108% and with a market cap of $3.35b compared to the initial pricing of $8-10 revised to $11-13 [...]

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Great news for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) startups – Cool Vendors in APM

by Jonah Kowall  |  April 21, 2012  |  5 Comments

Cool Vendors in Application Performance Monitoring - http://www.gartner.com/resId=1990115 I’m happy to announce that Will Cappelli and I have started a new cool vendor note to accompany the 65 regularly published notes which are done yearly throughput Gartner. These research notes are fun to write and cover interesting innovative smaller technology companies to keep an eye on. Looking at the [...]

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Application Performance Monitoring Magic Quadrant 2012 Criteria

by Jonah Kowall  |  February 27, 2012  |  3 Comments

With the evolving buying centers and crtiera these buying centers use to evaluate and make purchases of APM products, we have determined that a shift in the critera for the Magic Quadrant for 2012 was required. In order to communicate these changes to both the buyers and suppliers of these solutions Will Cappelli and I [...]

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APM Innovators Research

by Jonah Kowall  |  December 23, 2011  |  3 Comments

Before I sign off for a few days of vacation Will Cappelli and I did manage to get an interesting research note published, which we have been working on for the last month or longer. This note outlines several vendors or “innovators” which were not in the APM Magic Quadrant this year for not meeting [...]

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Category: Analytics APM Big Data IT Operations Logfile Monitoring OLM SaaS     Tags:

Upcoming notes, and some analytics

by Jonah Kowall  |  May 5, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

My recent note on monitoring Citrix XenApp environments has been released. I go into discussions on the different approaches that can be taken based on the criticality of XenApp to your business operations (http://www.gartner.com/resId=1659314) I am currently in process with 2 other notes which may be of interest. The first one focuses on Application Support’s [...]

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