by Jonah Kowall | April 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
I had the pleasure of attending CA World this week with a few of my colleagues. Colin Fletcher joined me, covering similar areas. Laurie Wurster also attended, she’s our go to person for market data and forecasting across the IT operations management market. I had meetings with many CA customers, partners, and CA staff members. [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | April 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
As the summer approaches for many of us, it’s important to stay cool. When looking for technologies it’s also important to investigate vendors who are taking a unique and innovative approach to some of the problems IT professionals face day to day. At Gartner we publish many cool vendor reports which get wrapped into a [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | March 14, 2013 | 6 Comments
Mobile APM is finally coming of age, current tooling allows for crash management, or synthetic transactions delivered via SaaS models. These are critical in determining application availability, but provide limited data when determining performance. Keynote Systems has made heavy investments moving from a traditional synthetic monitoring company to mobile making up over half of their [...]
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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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by Jonah Kowall | January 13, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Happy new year to you all, I hope you had an enjoyable holiday, as we kick off 2013 my research agenda is coming together along with lots of travel and conferences for the year. I will post as that gets solidified, but on my current list I will be attending the following conferences: Orilley Velocity [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | October 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
I was fortunate to have attended OpenWorld a couple of weeks ago and wanted to write a little bit about my experiences observation, and the conference itself. It was more relevant and useful than I expected it to be. Aside from the major announcements which are not in my coverage area (Engineered Systems – Exa, and [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | October 3, 2012 | 4 Comments
With some of the research I completed towards the end of last year, I take a pretty consistent set of requests on the evaluation and use of open source monitoring. If you are following some of the fun conversations on “monitoring sucks” you will notice that not only do most traditional monitoring systems fail to [...]
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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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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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by Jonah Kowall | January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Last week I published a note with my colleague Tomas Murphy who covers the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technologies, the note was about the intersection of Application Performance Monitoring(APM) and ALM. Although most of the APM buyers and end users I speak with come from an IT Operations or even an application support type role, I [...]
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