February « 2011 « Julie Craig

Watson: A Long Way from “Hello World”

posted by Julie Craig | February 18, 2011 | one Comments

I’m not a big Jeopardy fan, more from lack of time than lack of interest. However, I couldn’t resist watching this week’s shows, in which Watson “shellacked” the human competition. And as an ex-programmer who has been industry-watching for longer than I care to admit, I have to say a few words about IBM‘s achievement....

Posted in Application Mangement Tags: Artificial intelligence, Autonomic Computing, IBM, Watson

Application Management and Application Aware Networking – Part 2

posted by Julie Craig | February 10, 2011 | one Comments

In Part 1 of this blog, I described the information gathered from Application Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) solutions, as a “key enabler for the increasingly automated management systems of the future”. This blog entry explains why I believe this to be true. Virtually every company with on-premise IT (as opposed to outsourced IT) has...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Application Management, Business, Databases, IBM, network, OpTier, Servers, Service-now.com, VMware

Application Management and Application Aware Networking: Part 1

posted by Julie Craig | February 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

As many readers know, my colleague Jim Frey, who leads EMA’s Network Management practice, released groundbreaking research on Application Aware Networking (ANPM) in Q3 of 2010 entitled, “Application Awareness in Network Performance Management”. A free summary is available at: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php?id=1801. While Jim was working on his report, Dennis Drogseth and I were doing parallel research...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Application programming interface, Business transaction management, Jim Frey, Network management, Network Performance, Networking, Site Management