Recently, one of the “big four” software firms was acquired by a group of
investors led by Bain Capital. This is good news as this shows that there
is demonstrable health in the IT Sector in that investors are willing to take
the risk and purchase a software vendor.
Does this matter to you? It might. It depends on which of that firm’s
products are used at your company, if any. However, the acquisition by a
private equity firm is unlikely to be permanent. It could eventually lead to
a company breakup with the parts sold to separate owners. But, while this
could happen, it’s probably not the final outcome.
In the real estate market where someone buys a house, fixes the plumbing,
puts in a new heating system and resells the house for a profit, they call it
a “flip”. They get rid of the playroom that used to be a garage and
return the house to a sellable condition.... (more)
*&%#* The system is running slow again! Now what? Is there a space hog
application sucking up all my resources? Did we just crash? No, must not
say that word...must not say that word... ...still running, just
sloooowly. I wonder if anything new has been installed… Nice if they told
me. I overheard that something new might have been installed last week.
Could there be a memory leak? Are they checking for one? Are they looking
in the right place? Hide and seek with a leak is NO fun. How many times
have you sat staring at your monitor until your eyes burn and blur, trying t... (more)
Two new TechTalks are in the queue.
The first one is: Smart Logging: Supercharge Application Logging and
Tracing. This TechTalk is led by Nastel CTO, Albert Mavashev. The details and
registration information can be found here.
The second one will be another in-depth look at middleware management,
specifically WebSphere MQ, led by Nastel’s VP Engineering Richard Nikula.
The details and registration information can be found here.
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Nastel will be in booth z2 at IBM Impact 2013 in Las Vegas from April 28th
– May 2nd and will be demonstrating our solutions for monitoring and
management of WebSphere and other applications.
Please stop by our booth and say hello.
We are also sponsoring a session:How Technology is used at TD Securities for
real-time monitoring of Dodd-Frank Trade Reporting (Session: BPB-3197)
This session will be on Monday, 4/29 at 12 PM in the Venetian – Marcello
4403 room.
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monitoring of WebSphere appeared first on Middl... (more)
Nastel will be at CA World 2013 in Las Vegas, April 21 – 24.
Our CTO, Albert Mavashev will present “Introducing AutoPilot for WebSphere
MQ Management” – session MP105SN on Monday 4/22 at 3:45 PM . Please
drop by and say hello and learn how AutoPilot can help CA users monitor and
manage their MQ environments across both distributed and mainframe tiers.
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Charles Rich is Vice President of Product Management at Nastel Technologies, a provider of middleware-centric application performance monitoring for mission-critical applications from the datacenter to the cloud. He is a software product management professional who brings over 27 years of technical hands-on experience working with large-scale customers to meet their application and systems management requirements. 
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