How Real-Time Do You Want To Be ?

In his recent post in The Virtualization Practice, Bernd Harzog hits the nail on the head with Real-Time Monitoring: Almost Always a Lie. Here, Bernd points out that, in contrast to marketing claims that a monitoring solution is real-time, the fact is that multiple stages of […]

The CMDB of the Future

(NOTE: This post appeared in the January 13 issue of APMdigest) The complex software applications that run modern businesses are often referred to as “mission-critical” and must be kept running 24×7. Unfortunately, the complexity of these applications is often so great that keeping them in […]

Big Data – Not Just an Amorphous Blob

There are not many people who know that the number of atoms in the earth is almost exactly the square root of a googol (1.3 x 10^50) … which also means that if every atom inside the earth were itself an entire earth, the […]

The Internet – Kali’s Playground

Kali is the hindu Goddess of Time and Change. Some fear her as the Goddess of Destruction, but devotees of Kali know she has a dual nature. In layman terms, change requires destruction so new things can be born. For well over a decade, […]

Advanced TIBCO Monitoring with RTView

Most people in the TIBCO community have heard of RTView by now. TIBCO resells a subset of the RTView product line to complement its EMS and BW products. But most users are not aware of the extent to which the RTView provides a comprehensive […]

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

The holiday season is sneaking up on us, and we take great pleasure in answering at once this communication below (from Virginia): – Dear Editor: I am a newbie to monitoring critical business applications. – Some of my little friends say there is no […]

Enterprise Application Monitoring: The Business Value

It is easy to pull out the long list of features that a product must have to address the challenges inherent in monitoring a large estate of critical business applications across an enterprise. But I won’t do that to you here. Everyone knows monitoring […]

What Failed: My App or my Infrastructure ?

Matthew, a talented Application Support guy, is shown in the image to the left enjoying a relaxing day at the beach. When his boss calls, he manages to craft something of a smile, but my guess is that he is not very happy right […]

RTView at Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld is big … so big that, as a visitor, it’s real easy to get completely overwhelmed. After a while, all the vendors sound so much alike that it becomes impossible to remember who solves this problem or that problem, or if there […]

RTView and Oracle Enterprise Manager

We often get asked the following question. “What is the difference between RTView and Oracle Enterprise Manager … if I already have OEM, why would I need RTView” ? Oracle has a decent product in OEM. It provides lifecycle management for the entire Oracle […]

Oops, We Forgot to Monitor That Server

As the owner of a critical application on which your business depends, how many times have you heard something like “Oops, we forgot to set up monitoring on that server?” Usually this is heard a short while after the application has crashed and shut […]

Imagine: A World With No Log Files

I like to balance my time between thinking about how to deal with the problems of the present and what we can do better in the future. This is of particular interest when it comes to the problem (or curse) of log files. My […]