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Application Performance Management Is Critical To Business Success

This Application Performance Management Forrester Research study captures insight into the benefits and challenges with today’s IT monitoring solutions as well as the types of monitoring features that will help meet application performance and availability expectations.

IT Analytics is Crucial to Make Trustworthy Business Technology Decisions

Technology Adoption Analyst whitepaper by Forrester. This IBM-commissioned profile of IT operations decision-makers at enterprise companies in the US, UK and Germany evaluates IT operations analytics adoption, benefits, and challenges based on Forrester’s own market data and a custom study of the same audience.

Automating the Application Release Process: Build vs. Buy

As application complexity continues to increase and the demand to improve time to market continues to grow, organizations are increasingly embracing Application Release Automation to help them maintain a competitive advantage. This white paper will help you understand how an Application Release Automation solution can help you save valuable resources and streamline your application deployment process and avoid many of the pitfalls customers have experience in attempting to develop and maintaining in-house scripts.

Dysfunction Junction: A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Started with DevOps

There has been growing buzz about DevOps. DevOps is a methodology that unites the often separate functions of software development (Dev) and production and operations (Ops) into a single, integrated, and continuous process. DevOps is about breaking down the barriers between Dev and Ops. It leverages people, processes, and technology to stimulate collaboration and innovation across the entire software development and release process.

Dev and Ops should always be part of an integrated process, but that’s not always as easy as it sounds. You may be stuck in what we call “Dysfunction Junction.” Read this eBooklet to learn about the pitfalls of DevOps, how you can avoid them, and how to get started on your DevOps journey.

This whitepaper is in Portuguese.

Evolved Capacity Management: Six Key Steps to Success

Effective capacity management has become a critical differentiator for IT organizations. Those that can’t effectively evolve their capacity management practice will continue to struggle with complexity and negligible insights into capacity sizing and the impact of changing demand and resulting service/application performance.

However, those that gain advanced capacity management capabilities will be able to more effectively right-size investments, support key IT projects, and align resources with business objectives. This paper offers a practical look at capacity management, outlining the six key steps IT organizations can take to realize capacity management that delivers maximum value.

Ten Steps to Make Your DCIM Implementation a Success

This practical guide will help you determine where to start your DCIM implementation and how to achieve the best outcomes using our 10 step formula for success. Learn how CA Technologies and Eaton are helping DCIM customers define business needs and set operational thresholds to enable integrations and ensure scalability.

The Power and Payback of Unified IT Monitoring

The move towards an “app economy” is accelerating the rate of new, business-critical application deployments. And all the while, expectations are continuously rising for higher availability and faster performance across hybrid physical/virtual/cloud infrastructures. One important path to success involves bringing together infrastructure, application, and service level visibility via unified IT monitoring. This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® whitepaper examines why unified IT monitoring is an important enabling technology for both enterprises and management service providers, including both the organizational and strategic impacts as well as the business case surrounding it.

Unified Monitoring: A Business Perspective

In the past few years, the enterprise computing landscape has changed dramatically. Changes such as virtualization and cloud computing are rendering legacy monitoring tools virtually useless. This paper explores today's computing trends and their monitoring implications in detail. It also introduces solutions that address the monitoring needs of tomorrow's enterprises.

The Power and Payback of Unified Monitoring

Multiple, complex monitoring solutions make IT operations costly and inefficient. This can be compounded by the need to manage remote data centers. Industry leaders are calling for a solution which is easy to manage and configure and allows new system components to be added remotely into live systems. By also offering multi-tenancy, it would be ideal for managed hosting providers. This paper discusses how CA Unified Infrastructure Management meets these needs, including customer case studies which outline how it improved transparency, thereby reducing IT operations costs.

Why Everyone Needs to Own Customer Experience in the Application Economy

The viability of your brand largely rests on the quality of your customers’ experience with your applications—often the most important experiences they’ll have when doing business with you. Successful CIOs and technology leaders will know how to deliver the application experience users expect by taking ownership of the application experience, obtaining key performance information needed to share—or democratize—that data with all relevant teams and business leaders. These technology leaders recognize that great performance is driven when all teams understand what they need to know to act.

Building a Shortcut Between Innovation and Business Value

For the first time in a long time, CEOs, CIOs and IT groups are on the same page. They’ve seen the changes in the marketplace, and they know that if they want to compete, they must find a way to deliver new applications, services and capabilities faster and at a higher quality than ever before – and do so without taking on new costs or risks. Read this new brief to see how enterprise companies are meeting this challenge and maintaining their competitive edge.

DevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning the Application Economy

The application economy is motivating leaders to make critical changes across IT and the business, one of the most significant being the adoption of DevOps. For enterprise IT organizations hoping to drive the technology strategy across the business and provide customers with higher-quality software, faster, DevOps—with its focus on collaboration across IT domains from development to delivery—is increasingly the answer.

DevOps: Enterprise Organizations Newest Best Practices

The research shows DevOps delivers 18% faster time-to-market and 19% better app quality/performance.,

The application economy is motivating leaders to make critical changes across IT and the business, one of the most significant being the adoption of DevOps. For enterprise IT organizations who need to accelerate delivery of apps and provide customers with higher-quality software, faster, DevOps–with its focus on collaboration across IT domains from development to delivery–is increasingly the answer.

Everyone SHIFT-LEFT to High-Velocity Application Delivery

When it comes to delivering applications, what if you could SHIFT your timeline LEFT and turn out apps 25 to 50 percent faster with higher quality and less labor? What if you could SHIFT LEFT and achieve 100 percent return on your investment by the time you deliver your next application? What if you could SHIFT LEFT and make DevOps a reality?

Tesco Customer Case Study

Check out these videos to see how Tesco has found success with CA’s solutions.