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 | April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments
In my coverage area we’ve seen quite a few shakeups, there are some large ones currently in flight. Companies we cover in the infrastructure and operations management space including BMC, Compuware, and Dell are going through privatization right now. They are being driven by PE firms which are trying to make money by creating additional [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | March 28, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Over the past several months Vivek Bhalla and myself have been working on a set of research notes addressing the lifecycle of unified communications. We had hoped this would publish early last month, but alas it turned into quite a project (75 pages published). We get a lot of client inquiry around management of unified [...]
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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 | 40 Comments
Nagios is a great product, it’s free, you can’t beat that. The problem is that the level of usability and sophistication of the product is pretty much zero. Don’t expect any bells and whistles, or really any usability for that matter. The technology is rudimentary at best, but it can get the job done with [...]
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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 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 | June 1, 2012 | 5 Comments
In our research published in April (Vendor Landscape for Application-Aware Network Performance Monitoring and Network Packet Brokers – http://www.gartner.com/resId=1987715) we made some assumptions about this new market which we were covering. Many know this market as Matrix switch, Director, or other tap technologies. We had defined and spoken to the size and growth of this market. [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | May 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Just having gotten back from EMC World I attended this conference in order to get more insight into not only EMCs plans especially around the IT Operations Intelligence (ITOI) product line, but also to better understand the collaboration with Vmware considering they are 80% EMC owned. Interestingly after pretty limited investment in SMARTs for the [...]
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