SCOM surged forward as an application performance management (APM) tool this summer. It received a Customers’ Choice 2018 award from Gartner in the APM category. SCOM shared the honour with AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic and Solarwinds. I see you thinking – how did this happen? Well, more than 50 reviewers gave SCOM an average rating of 4.2, which means it met Gartner’s criteria to win the award.
It’s 2021 and 94% of all enterprise IT workloads are running in the public or private cloud. This is the prediction made by Cisco. So, your organisation has a choice – public or private cloud? Or perhaps both? We’ll walk through the pros and cons of each option. But first, a few definitions.
Are you planning a hybrid cloud monitoring strategy? Our checklist walks through six essential steps to success.
Today we welcome David Morris, a System Centre Engineer for one of the world's largest law firms, who has written a special guest blog about the Solarwinds community MP. A must read for anyone who has Solarwinds and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). We'd like to thank David for taking the time to write up this fantastic piece of content - it's another great example of the SCOM community hard at work.
“What kind of integrations do you have with PRTG?” Yesterday, one of our favourite German customers asked us that question. And today we post our answer in a blog post! And without further ado, we’ll let our technical colleague Tom Morriss take centre stage.
How do you choose an APM tool? You search online and you see there is a lot of choice. But you can only choose one. And it's a big decision. You need to find a tool that can monitor your crown jewel applications. You know that the cost of an APM tool is high. And you know that it's going to be a challenging and lengthy process to implement it.
You have no doubt heard about Application Performance Management (APM) and how internal IT teams are using APM to stay relevant in the face of competition brought about by shadow IT. So, let us take a look at three business benefits which APM will deliver to your organisation.
Monitoring has typically been the remit of small, specialised IT Operations teams but the tools they’ve been given are rarely fit for purpose in today’s demanding environments.
Application Performance Management (APM) tools are hot right now - so much so that it won't be long before APM reaches the same level of notoriety as the cloud, the IoT, and a personal favourite - big data.
