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Application Performance Monitoring – or APM – deals with the performance monitoring of applications. The goal is to provide users with an optimal operating experience when using a particular piece of software or an entire software package.APM tools provide administrators with data that they can use to identify negative influences and problems in application performance. Ideally, admins will be presented with data straight away that will help them eliminate the problems. APM monitoring tools can be designed specifically for one application or for monitoring multiple applications on the same network. They collect data on CPU performance, memory usage, bandwidth, and data flow.
The term “business process” has a relatively high significance in this context, because it can be used to make meaningful distinctions in the monitoring effort. A business process comprises various activities that support a company in achieving a specific goal. These activities are again very individual, depending of course on how a company is structured and also in which business area it operates. Business Process Monitoring then makes it possible to evaluate these business processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and avoid or at least reduce any errors. Incidentally, the Gartner definition, which can be found here, is somewhat broader. According to it, Gartner describes business processes as the coordination of the behavior of people, systems and things in order to achieve specific business results.
At 15:51 UTC yesterday, the digital media began to boil over: Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were all down. Their DNS names stopped resolving and their infrastructure IPs were inaccessible. It was as if someone had “pulled the wires” of their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.At the end of the day, Facebook revealed some details of what happened internally. Today, it went further in the explanations. Someone, during routine maintenance, issued a command intended to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all backbone connections, effectively disconnecting Facebook’s data centers around the world.
To ensure infrastructure is protected against cyberattacks, organizations are increasingly adopting IT infrastructure monitoring tools. This market is projected to grow in revenue from $16.1 billion in 2020 to more than $64.5 billion in 2031. And one segment that is becoming increasingly popular is Monitoring as a Service (MaaS), particularly following the growth in remote working and telemedicine caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.MaaS offerings consist of various tools and applications designed to monitor a particular aspect of an application, server, system, or any other IT component. an approach that aims to ensure maximum availability, security, and performance of IT assets through 24×7, real-time monitoring contracted under a usage-based billing model.
Since March last year, the 14,000 students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in Brazil have come to depend on online classes. As in many other institutions around the world, in recent months users have experienced a hybrid context, in which activity has had to be carried out partly remotely, partly in physical environments. This configuration has further increased the demand for network monitoring services, as well as for the entire digital environment responsible for local and remote access.
IT asset management (ITAM) is arguably more important to organizations than ever before. Along with IT monitoring and IT governance, it forms the priority tripod for CIOs in 2021.Some define it as a set of business practices that combine financial, inventory, and contractual functions to optimize spend and support lifecycle management and strategic decision-making in the IT environment.The ITAM process typically involves collecting an up-to-date and detailed inventory of an organization’s hardware, software, and network assets, and then using that information to make informed business decisions about IT-related purchases and redeployment. And increasingly, to help them assess threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents highlighted by monitoring.
