By Charles Rich We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is red hot right now. Although it’s a mature market, the capabilities APM brings to the table are only increasing in value throughout the enterprise. … Continue reading → May. 8, 2012 12:59 PM EDT Reads: 196 |
By Charles Rich Many enterprises utilize middleware as the “glue” linking their application infrastructure together. This application fabric is usually comprised of bespoke and commercial applications, some of which are sourced within the company and others obtained through acquisition. For these ente... Mar. 30, 2012 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 150 |
By Charles Rich In 1909, Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store, coined the phrase “The customer is always right,” and it has become the mantra of countless businesses since. At the time, Gordon could have been considered a customer service … Continue reading →... Mar. 20, 2012 12:04 PM EDT Reads: 181 |
By Charles Rich A recent article in NetworkWorld highlighted the surge that is being seen in the Application Performance Monitoring space recently. The article came about after AppDynamics and BlueStripe released news that their revenues increased 400 and 700 percent, respectively, in 2011. … Co... Feb. 10, 2012 05:59 PM EST Reads: 202 |
By Charles Rich We’re very excited to announce that Enterprise Management Associates has named Nastel Technologies a Value Leader in the latest EMA Radar™ for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: Q1 2012 report. Report author and Research Director, Julie Craig, notes … Co... Feb. 6, 2012 04:47 PM EST Reads: 253 |
By Charles Rich It’s no secret that 2011 saw the adoption rates of cloud computing increase, and 2012 should see even more growth as organizations not only move their critical applications to the cloud, but small and mid-sized businesses begin to request more … Continue reading → Jan. 19, 2012 11:54 AM EST Reads: 735 |
By Charles Rich Setting the record straight on APM and DevOps: A response to SD Times by Nastel Technologies Continue reading → Jan. 13, 2012 04:39 PM EST Reads: 224 |
By Charles Rich Visibility promotes a clear picture of what is occurring in front of you. Not just on the road, but in the world of IT. Continue reading → Jan. 10, 2012 05:02 PM EST Reads: 128 |
By Charles Rich While driving past acres of carefully tended wine grapes on Long Island’s North Fork, I noticed that some vineyards planted a rosebush at the beginning of each row of grape vines. Continue reading → Dec. 22, 2011 02:27 PM EST Reads: 187 |
By Charles Rich CA announced CA APM 9.1 earlier this week, and Forrester released analyst JP Garbani’s Market Overview report on APM for Q4. What struck Nastel in both cases was the connection being made between end-user monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring.
Continue reading → Dec. 19, 2011 05:57 PM EST Reads: 228 |
By Charles Rich The earlier you find an IT problem the less expensive it is to resolve it. Most IT practitioners would agree with that. What they will most likely disagree about is how to do it. Some talk about predictive monitoring and say they can forecast IT problems before they occur. Can that... Dec. 15, 2011 12:05 PM EST Reads: 290 |
By Charles Rich  Is it a bird? Well no, but you can tweet about it.
Is it a plane? No, but it does go on AutoPilot.
Is it Superman? No. But it has super powers that allow organizations to get their business-critical applications running with the highest performance.
It’s Nastel’s AutoPilot M6, an ap... Dec. 7, 2011 04:43 PM EST Reads: 888 |
By Charles Rich  Routines — we all depend on them. When we don’t, not much gets accomplished. The same can be said of IT. If we don’t establish certain protocols, routines if you will, applications run amok. Business processes are interrupted and the business fails to accomplish its goals.
So what m... Dec. 6, 2011 01:15 PM EST Reads: 969 |
By Charles Rich WebSphere MQ 7 is an impressive piece of software. Not only is it easy to install on most platforms, but it is also easy to setup with default options. However, if we look at the options offered to us while setting up Websphere MQ and Queue Managers, we will see a lot of flexibility ... Nov. 29, 2011 02:18 PM EST Reads: 171 |
By Charles Rich "In the early days of aviation, aircraft required the continuous attention of a pilot in order to fly safely," according to information taken from online flight manuals. "As aircraft range increased allowing flights of many hours, the constant attention led to serious fatigue. To reme... Nov. 28, 2011 12:16 PM EST Reads: 398 |
By Charles Rich Time is money, and never more so than in the case of a factory that has to run at peak efficiency 24/7/365 to meet production orders. A company will incur millions in costs if manufacturing operations hit the skids.
Continue reading → Nov. 23, 2011 04:17 PM EST Reads: 204 |
By Charles Rich Black Friday is just the beginning of that time of year when most businesses finally start to turn a genuine profit. The business your IT department supports is depending on you to keep the sales process flowing smoothly and swiftly. What practices can you put in place today to ensure ... Nov. 23, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 183 |
By Charles Rich  When it comes to business, no one outside IT cares about how you deliver consistent, dependable service — as long as you do it…and do it inexpensively. Customers want a no-pain, no-problem experience at the checkout stand or internet shopping cart. The business wants to prevent custome... Nov. 22, 2011 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,401 |
By Charles Rich Last year, Black Friday website traffic broke records. It was up 13 percent from the previous year and proved to be the single biggest sales day for website traffic for all of 2010. Will this critical kick-off day for the 2011 holiday season catch your IT system by surprise? And will y... Nov. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 215 |
By Charles Rich When you monitor the availability and performance of your organization’s mission critical applications do you get all the information you need about the network to troubleshoot effectively? Continue reading → Nov. 15, 2011 01:08 PM EST Reads: 256 |
By Charles Rich  With all the applications .NET allows you to create—from customer relationship management and product inventory applications to websites and cloud partnerships, to name just a few, you can't afford for your .NET applications to go down. It could cost millions in lost revenue directly t... Nov. 15, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,372 |
By Charles Rich Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is promoted as the best way to keep all the applications that serve your business available and performing properly. Though when it comes to the main IT challenges your business faces, you may be wondering if all the talk isn't just hype. Contin... Nov. 11, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 145 |
By Charles Rich  It’s not often that we like to give ourselves a pat on the back, but when we feel it’s deserving, well then we do it. Therefore, Nastel was named a Bronze-level winner in the Best in Biz awards in the Enterprise Product of the Year category. The winners were announced this week.
Naste... Nov. 10, 2011 10:56 AM EST Reads: 973 |
By Charles Rich When my children were younger, they used to call my monitor the “computer”. To them, this was the interface they saw and what went on behind it was not something obvious to them. They were simply naïve and unaware of … Continue reading → Nov. 9, 2011 10:57 AM EST Reads: 185 |
By Charles Rich Good news: Your company has just gone through a merger. But surprise, surprise: you have also acquired a whole new set of management tools, along with a whole new set of applications. Also included, at no charge is a fresh set of application problems. Oh boy. Continue reading →... Nov. 1, 2011 03:38 PM EDT Reads: 172 |
By Charles Rich Building puzzles requires identifying the location of each piece. One usually starts with the pieces whose location is most obvious, the corners, and then the process of building the puzzle proceeds by finding the pieces next to these corner pieces, and so on. Usually, people work on... Oct. 31, 2011 12:49 PM EDT Reads: 148 |
By Charles Rich Unfortunately for IT departments, there's nothing profitable in the ghouls and ghosts that haunt their systems. They aren't make-believe. They are very real fears. Continue reading → Oct. 28, 2011 11:12 AM EDT Reads: 112 |
By Charles Rich When America was a more agricultural country, the October harvest moon was very important for every farmer. Two nights of full moon gave the farmer enough visibility to continue harvesting the crops before winter’s chill and stormy weather robbed them … Continue reading ... Oct. 11, 2011 07:19 PM EDT Reads: 199 |
By Charles Rich Many businesses are struggling today under the weight of their IT business applications. The business cannot survive without the applications that enable the essential tasks of business—keeping accurate inventories, processing payments, handling orders—to name just a few. While the ac... Oct. 3, 2011 02:04 PM EDT Reads: 115 |
By Charles Rich “Fourth down and inches from the goal line, I’m wondering what they’re going to do here?” asks the play-by-play announcer. Continue reading → Oct. 3, 2011 09:05 AM EDT Reads: 204 |
By Charles Rich I recently accompanied a member of the Nastel sales team to a prospective client and our conversation focused on the opportunity to use AutoPilot for better visibility into the company’s applications. Currently this company employs a variety of monitoring solutions to gather informatio... Sep. 30, 2011 09:14 AM EDT Reads: 191 |
By Charles Rich Do you know as much about application performance management as you think you do? Take the following quiz to find out. It's only five questions long, so it won't take much of your time. Continue reading → Sep. 30, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 348 |
By Charles Rich  The development of IT environments have naturally led to complexity. Put it down to the very nature of capitalism. Different vendors working together to achieve a common goal isn’t a common occurrence. Each vendor has over the years developed its own monitoring and reporting systems. T... Sep. 30, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,448 |
By Charles Rich  The number of vendors vying for the application performance management space has exploded in the last year. Almost every vendor in the space comes to it from a specific strength and has expanded its core offering to provide some level … Continue reading → Sep. 28, 2011 01:39 PM EDT Reads: 1,466 |
By Charles Rich Application performance management is a lot like limeade. If you don't have all the ingredients present you don't have APM. You have separate ingredients that provide value on their own. Just as limes can be used for things other than limeade, the separate dimensions that can be combin... Sep. 27, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 278 |
By Charles Rich I remember watching my grandmother make "real" fudge from scratch in her kitchen when I was a kid. The recipe had five ingredients. Sugar, cocoa, milk, salt and cream of tartar. All she needed was one pan, heat and a candy thermometer. Continue reading → Sep. 26, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 154 |
By Charles Rich We have the opportunity today to speak with David Mavashev, founder and CEO of Nastel Technologies, on his view of the APM (Application Performance Management) market.
David, do you think “APM” is a subject that’s clear for most IT professionals, or is there confusion in the marketp... Sep. 23, 2011 12:02 PM EDT Reads: 1,215 |
By Charles Rich Come and visit Nastel at Gartner Symposium in Orlando October 16-20. We will be in booth #427 - daily contests, become a fan of Nastel on Facebook and win a t-shirt Continue reading → Sep. 9, 2011 06:10 PM EDT Reads: 115 |
By Charles Rich In families with an odd number of children there is always one child caught in the middle. The first born is typically the leader, while the youngest is usually the more adventurous of the children because the parents have been … Continue reading → Aug. 29, 2011 07:10 PM EDT Reads: 120 |
By Charles Rich When Columbus sailed the ocean-blue in 1492, he set out to discover the Indies and accidentally discovered the Americas. Like the old lady who lived in a shoe, he had ‘so many troubles he didn’t know what to do.’ Disease, a near mutinous crew, Native Americans he couldn’t communicate ... Aug. 22, 2011 09:01 AM EDT Reads: 107 |
Charles Rich, vice president of product management and marketing at Nastel, 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. 
