by Jonah Kowall | April 24, 2013 | 6 Comments
I get this question a lot from friends and vendors alike. There is an art to consuming massive amount of information, something analysts have to do often with materials generated from vendors, emails, magic quadrant and research responses (The 2013 APM magic quadrant is officially underway, we have 1200 pages of text responses let alone the [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | April 24, 2013 | Submit a Comment
This blog post has nothing to do with my work at Gartner, aside from being helpful when doing my work. Since my social media and blog presence is tied to my work, I figured I would exercise dome creative leeway with this post. Music is a key element of motivation, emotion, and drive. It’s also a [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | March 29, 2013 | Submit a Comment
With covering so many markets within the availability and performance monitoring market I don’t spend nearly enough time writing about and discussing the network packet broker (NPB) market. This is a market once known as intelligent taps, matrix switches, span aggregators, and many other names. We gave the market a name which explains what they [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | December 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
This has really been a pet peeve of mine going back many years. As soon as I discovered the use of real user monitoring (RUM) data for performance measurements of actual users (probably around 2003) I was destined to eliminate all but the basic monitoring that was done synthetically. At a previous position I held we [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | December 7, 2012 | 3 Comments
Sorry for the long delay between posts, between the Gartner Symposium and Data Center conferences I have been busy presenting and meeting with clients. I have been hard at work with several research items, look for upcoming research in the Network Performance Monitoring space, with a specific focus on VoIP and unified communications monitoring and [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | October 19, 2012 | Submit a Comment
In research published last night we explore some of the ways that monitoring can move towards management. Is this particular use case we explore the tie between application performance monitoring (APM) and the application delivery controllers (ADCs) and content distribution networks (CDNs). There are a lot of interesting use cases which mostly are based around [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | October 16, 2012 | 4 Comments
I’ve always been skeptical of those doing capacity planning as the interactions which happen within a typical infrastructure are not only chaotic, but very complex. If you capacity plan within a bubble (network, server, storage, etc) you can look at the discrete component and get a general understanding. If you start to incorporate the private [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | September 20, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Recently I’ve published a document on extending Microsoft and Oracle monitoring technologies. This is something which comes frequently in client interactions with a growing investment in Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware stacks. These products can be extended, but should be done with care, understanding where it makes sense and where overextension can occur. The research includes [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | August 17, 2012 | 4 Comments
The Magic Quadrant for APM has been published (http://www.gartner.com/resId=2125315) after much work from myself, Will Cappelli, and our beloved manager John Enck. The research this year was the culmination of a body research we published on the evolution and changes within the APM market. The movement of Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring (AA-NPM) away from [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | August 9, 2012 | Submit a Comment
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted. The last 6 weeks or so have been consumed by the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Magic Quadrant, which is finally in editing now. We expect it to publish next week, and it should be interesting given the changes we have made. The main hype cycle I work [...]
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