MICHAEL BIDDICK

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Networking

7 Enterprise Management Tools That Cost Less Than $10,000

MICHAEL BIDDICK

January 06, 2017

Low-cost products deliver wide range of capabilities.

Cloud Infrastructure

Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud

MICHAEL BIDDICK

December 04, 2012

Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.

Networking

IT Management Gets SaaS Options

MICHAEL BIDDICK

August 24, 2011

More management tools are available in the cloud, but drawbacks abound.

Data Centers

The Storage Problem You Can't Ignore

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 15, 2011

Surrounded by data? Growing storage without end? Demands from users for fast access? Endless retention policies? Here's how to cope.

Data Centers

Public Cloud APM Is Useless. Focus On Private Cloud APM

MICHAEL BIDDICK

August 30, 2010

APM in the public cloud services is of very little value, since you can't get to the root cause of problem. As distributed application workloads move to cloud environments, the fundamental...

Data Centers

APM Success: Know Your Requirements

MICHAEL BIDDICK

August 24, 2010

Almost a month ago, we got to know an IT manager, Jim, who was selecting an application performance management (APM) product. After releasing his RFI to 14 vendors, he received six...

Data Centers

The Application Performance RFI

MICHAEL BIDDICK

August 16, 2010

Over the past few weeks, we have gotten to know Jim - a veteran IT manager who needs to deploy an application performance management (APM) solution. His objectives are to establish key...

Data Centers

Building APM Requirements And A Business Case

MICHAEL BIDDICK

August 06, 2010

Last week we looked at laying the foundation for an APM solution, but now it's time to get to work. We introduced Jim - a veteran IT manager who lacks any APM solution. As we discussed, he...

Data Centers

Application Performance Management: Laying The Groundwork

MICHAEL BIDDICK

July 26, 2010

This week I was working with a client, we will call him Jim, who was telling me about their mission critical business application. It's primarily a billing system, but also has service...

Data Centers

End-to-End APM, Who Needs It Anyway?

MICHAEL BIDDICK

July 15, 2010

Determining if your organization needs APM requires careful assessment of how application performance is affecting the bottom line. If application performance does not have a direct impact...

Data Centers

Shake Up Your APM

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 28, 2010

One of the challenges surrounding APM is figuring out what do do with our legacy management tools. Sure, end-to-end APM makes sense in a new, greenfield environment where we can drop in a...

Data Centers

Six Questions To Ask Before Buying End-To-End APM

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 21, 2010

While the market for end-to-end APM is heating up, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before plunking down your hard fought IT budget on new tools. With several dozen APM...

Data Centers

Justifying APM

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 10, 2010

As the economy crawls out of recession, organizations will examine ways to improve the quality of their application services, and many will turn to end-to-end application performance...

Data Centers

Five Boutique APM Vendors To Watch

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 04, 2010

The shift from infrastructure management to application management for enterprise organizations has resulted in a renewed interest in end-to-end Application Performance Management (APM)...

WAN Optimization: Adoption Holds Steady, Despite Advances

MICHAEL BIDDICK

June 03, 2010

The notion of converged services along with distributed workforces and the buzz around private clouds have created a perfect storm of stress on the WAN. Are optimization appliances the...

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