Tracing serverless Node.js functions
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Christian Hargrave
Instana announced the ability to trace serverless Node.js functions running on AWS Lambda. The new capabilities, which require zero code modification, deliver superior native serverless tracing automatically, providing performance metrics beyond, and independently from, X-Ray.
“As companies continue to push the envelope in creating smaller, more dynamic service...
Instana announces new capabilities
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Instana announced new capabilities that make it the only application management solution that can jump right into a log analysis tool with all context of the application and component under investigation.
“IT teams responsible for deploying and maintaining today’s mission critical applications must react quickly, especially when attacking service issues,&...
AIOps+ platform updates
Monday, February 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
FixStream, a pioneer in AIOps+ solutions for Autonomous IT Operations, introduced an advanced version of its product, the AIOps+ platform to quickly detect, predict and resolve business issues across an enterprise’s entire hybrid IT environment.
FixStream’s new 9.0 release offers advancements in event and ticket intelligence, correlation of bus...
New APM platform uses AI and runs on Amazon EMR
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, the application performance management (APM) platform designed for big data workloads, has introduced a full-stack, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solution for big data workloads running on Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is a cloud service that enables big data processing using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Impala, Hive, and other big data components across dynamical...
AIOps and why IT should care
Thursday, November 29, 2018 by Bhanu Singh
For years, industry leaders have rightfully evangelized the massive benefits of digital transformation. Abandoning outdated legacy systems and processes in favor of cloud-enabled ones helps produce greater insights, lowers operating costs, and streamlines operations for faster time-to-market of new products or services and a better overall customer experience. Already, ...
PHP support reaches Instana microservice monitoring
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by Richard Harris
Instana announced functional enhancements around code-level visibility and monitoring that help make it easier for DevOps to monitor microservice applications. The enhancements include automatic instrumentation for applications written in PHP. The company also announced the addition of REST API support to its Python Monitoring capabilities.
“With polyglot micro...
Three key advantages when app and network teams unite
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Heidi Gabrielson
Customers today no longer tolerate outages or poor application performance. Other companies' comparable offerings are a mere click away, so ensuring optimal performance is one of the most important undertakings for keeping customers happy in the digital age. Traditionally, network and application teams have been siloed, with each focused just on their own goals an...
ZeroTurnaround launches XRebel Hub performance monitoring tool
Friday, September 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ZeroTurnaround has launched XRebel Hub, an Application Performance Management (APM) tool built for the development and testing phases of app development. Traditional APM tools focus on the production phase and are often geared to the operations function. The problem with relying solely on this traditional approach is that 80 percent of performance issues make it to prod...
PacketZoom launches Mobile IQ performance analytics for free
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
PacketZoom, the company re-defining mobile application performance via in-app mobile networking technology, today announced the launch of Mobile IQ, a free mobile analytics tool that enables app developers to analyze, troubleshoot and control app performance in real-time. Integrated with Mobile ExpresslaneTM as part of the PacketZoom platform, Mobile IQ makes PacketZoom...
NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource, the Node.js company, has announced the release of NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux, the newest addition to its enterprise-grade Node.js platform that enables a secure, reliable and extensible platform for Node.js applications. The latest release makes it easier for teams using Docker containers with the popular Alpine Linux distribution to leverage the en...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
Orasi Software and Saltworks Security Form New Application Security Venture
Monday, June 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software and Saltworks Security have announced an agreement to form a new cooperative venture, where Orasi will contribute quality-focused solution sales, support, consulting and training services that leverage Saltworks application security services. The resulting collaboration will offer an all-inclusive security offering of planning, deployment, training and on...
Dynatrace Application Monitoring Solutions Now Available Through Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dynatrace has announced that developers can now deploy its application performance management solutions through the Pivotal Cloud Foundry. With the announcement, Dynatrace is making available its Application Monitoring Service Broker Tile and Buildpack Extensions for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). The integration will allow users to collect analytics for applications...
Web and Mobile Application Development Developers On Application Performance
Saturday, April 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dimensional Research and AppDynamics recently partnered in a survey to capture trends and data about web and mobile application development as it relates to monitoring and analyzing tools, including the ability to capture data in real-time, measure performance and business impact.Anand Akela, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) at ...
Survey Reveals IT Admins Have Room for APM Improvement
Friday, April 8, 2016 by Sridhar Iyengar
Any IT admin worth their salt will tell you that the only thing better than solving an IT ticket is keeping it from ever being raised. After all, prevention is better than a cure.So how do you preempt performance problems in an enterprise IT environment? That’s simple - use an application performance management (APM) solution. But, as we recently found out, around 40 pe...
Online Performance Is as Important as InGame Performance for the Super Bowl
Friday, February 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The biggest sports day of the year will also be a huge day for companies who have an investment in the big game. We visited with Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, to discuss how digital performance management is particularly important during “spikey” events such as the Super Bowl, where digital performance can make or break a brand.He also provides insights into SOASTA’s Sup...
Site24x7 Releases Updates to Mobile Application Performance Management Platform
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Site24x7 offers a cloud monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations that provides the ability to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructures, including private and public cloud instances.The company has announced the general availability of a new real user monitoring (RUM) solution and updates to its mobile application performance mana...
Orasi Extends Expertise to Kony's CrossPlatform Enterprise Mobile Solutions
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has partnered with Kony to expand its software, support, training and consulting services to provide a complete suite of services for the application lifecycle. With the partnership, Orasi will provide sales, implementation services, training, consulting and support for Kony’s mobile development solutions. The partnership is part of Orasi’s expansion...
Driving DevOps: The 5 New Requirements for Agile App Delivery
Monday, November 2, 2015 by Kasey Cross
The benefits DevOps can provide for an enterprise are nothing less than the framework for staying competitive in an era defined by change. Fundamentally, DevOps allows enterprises to:- Balance Innovation with Infrastructure Stability: The high performance fueled by DevOps is driven by continuous deployment on the development side combined with heavy automation, continuo...
Ruxit Managed Platform Offers OnPremise Monitoring Solution
Friday, October 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Ruxit’s new “Ruxit Managed” application performance management (APM) platform offers a new managed service that is designed for organizations that cannot deploy cloud solutions because they need to keep data on-premises. Ruxit Managed is an expansion of the company’s SaaS offering which offers artificial intelligence-based full-stack digital performance monitoring,...
Kony Updates MobileFabric To Help The Enterprise With Mobile Development
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Kony has updated its MobileFabric backend mobile infrastructure with new API management, mobile a management (MAM), analytics and application performance management (APM) capabilities.The updates provide developers greater access to open and web development standards and technologies offering front-end tools and frameworks, including native iOS, Android, Windows, HTML5/...
CA Technologies Just Made IT Operations a Little Easier
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies has made updates to its DevOps portfolio to offer enhanced monitoring solutions for agile operations. This includes new capabilities in CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) and CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM). Quality of service metrics from CA UIM can also now be correlated and combined with CA APM performance metrics in a single...
AppDynamics Offers New Application Performance Monitoring Platform for Microservices
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppDynamics is introducing a new application performance management (APM) offering designed for enterprises incorporating microservices in their application architecture. This new offering provides end-to-end monitoring for microservices architectures, including the ability to trace transactions across hundreds of microservice calls in production environments.The introd...
Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer
With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...
Adobe Updates Mobile Development Framework
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Adobe has announced enhancements to its Adobe Mobile Services that now includes an integrated mobile app framework. Mobile Services is offered through the Adobe Marketing Cloud as a product to encompass the mobile app lifecycle from app development and user acquisition to app analytics and user engagement. The mobile app framework in Adobe Mobile Services brings to...
Site24x7 Launches Beta Version of Android Mobile APM
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
Site24x7, a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, has launched a new beta version of its Mobile Application Performance Management (APM), a feature that helps mobile developers manage their mobile apps. The Site24x7 Mobile APM provides visibility into mobile application behavior and helps resolve performance issues that affect end-user experience. Site24x7 helps...
New SaaS Web App Monitoring Solution for Google Apps and ServiceNow Released by AppNeta
Thursday, February 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppNeta has introduced Quick Start Synthetic Workflows for Google Apps and ServiceNow as part of its Software-as-a-Service Application Monitoring (SAM) solution. The Quick Start Synthetic Workflows provides the ability to monitor web applications from the end user, through the network, and all the way to the application provider.Quick Start Workflows are authored and ma...
CA Technologies Stimulates App User Loyalty for Its Customers with Its APM Solution
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies just released its CA Application Performance Management (APM). The application benefits organizations that look to proactively manage the user experience of their apps. The experience in return develops loyalty-building interaction. The value of time and speed of delivery is important. CA APM’s elements are improved in areas such as m...
CA Technologies New API Management, DevOps, Security, and Management Cloud Solutions at CA World
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies kicked off its annual CA World conference this week in Las Vegas with the announcement of new security, API management, DevOps, and management Cloud Solutions. The annual event features over 5,000 attendees gathering together to learn about new CA products and other innovations in the new application economy.DevOps SolutionsCA Technologies announced new ...
AppNeta Announces Support for Node.js Web App Developers
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppNeta is now providing support for Node.js developers via TraceView, one of the products in the AppNeta full stack application performance management (APM) solution suite. TraceView combines full-stack application tracing and data visualization for building fast and reliable web applications.TraceView for Node.js provides developers with insight into the performance a...
Logentries Now Offers New Relic Integration for Log Level, Client to Server Transaction Tracing
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Logentries offers a log management and analytics service built for the cloud and now is providing New Relic integration that provides real-time visibility into log level transactions from client-side devices - such as mobile apps or web browsers - to traditional application and backend servers. The new integration enables users to drill down from an appli...
AppNeta Provides New Performance Dashboard for Managing All Five Major Web Development Platforms Java, .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby
Monday, June 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
AppNeta has introduced its User Satisfaction Dashboard as part of its application performance management (APM) solution. The SaaS-based APM tool delivers a view of overall web application performance by integrating and scoring application performance across the entire application transaction. By aggregating performance results from the application code, real-user monito...
Aternity Provides Insights Into Managing Mobile App Performance
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Managing for mobile application performance management (mAPM) is a cornerstone of a successful mobile strategy. Companies that successfully implement mAPM will experience faster applications while dramatically reducing business disruptions and increasing user productivity.Aternity’s mAPM products allow companies access to a user-centric vantage point which closes the “V...
Aternity Launches New Mobile Application Performance Management (APM) Platform for Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aternity has released mAPM for Enterprise Apps, a new set of mobile application performance management products that provide enterprises with the capabilities that their app development, IT Ops, and line of business teams need to measure, manage, and improve workforce productivity.The mAPM capabilities allow enterprises to ensure a quality user experience for their...
HTML5, BYOD, Native or Hybrid, How Do App Developers Strategize, Plan, and Optimize for Mobile Enterprise Initiatives
Monday, April 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
HTML5 is the future for enterprise apps. No wait, native code will never be replaced. You say end users will drive how companies approach mobile? Really? The truth is no one currently has a definitive answer as mobile continues to provide never before seen opportunities to engage with customers and employees. There are hundreds of questions and 10 different answers to e...
