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. Application performance monitoring ... (more)

It isn’t every day you get to write about Immanuel Kant and Big Data in the same blog post but last week Gartner Analyst Will Cappelli did just that. As you’ll see in his post, “AI and IAM: Will Two-Tier Analytics Become the Norm for IAM?” context is the key. Cappelli addresses K... (more)

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 thes... (more)

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 revolutionary in the world... (more)

Alexander Podelko, a performance expert working with Oracle, recently wrote a blog post in which he takes a look at the current state of the APM market and what he thinks needs to change in order for companies to get the most out of their solutions. In his post, Alex discusses t... (more)

Nastel recently joined a conversation on Infoworld.com around what writer Dan Tynan described as “IT’s worst addictions.” From our perspective, data is one of these addictions, and by far one of the biggest pain points that the IT industry is forced to deal with today. ‘Big Data’... (more)

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. And ... (more)

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 that ... (more)

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 cloud-based applications.   For all... (more)

David Rubinstein, who has been an icon in the software development publishing community for more than a decade, published a great editorial in last month’s issue of SD Times on the topic of APM and DevOps (Industry Watch: Behind the APM and DevOps buzzwords). David calls into qu... (more)

“You were not in control. You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.” – Alain Prost, race car driver, France. Visibility promotes a clear picture of what is occurring in front of you. Not just on the road, but in the world of IT. Traditionally, IT de... (more)

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.  Other vineyards planted roses at the beginning of every other row and at some vineyards there were ... (more)

Two items of interest to the APM space caught our attention this week, and subsequently got us thinking. 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 connecti... (more)

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.  Ca... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 flexib... (more)

“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.  T... (more)

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. A large global electronics manufacturing company built its mult... (more)

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 e... (more)