Tablets, phones, watches—we rely on them and the applications and services that they deliver. In this new application economy, these devices have changed the way we live, work and play. Built specifically for mobile devices, these apps have emerged as revenue powerhouses. In 2014, app sales reached $30 billion, and by 2017, the combined value
It’s no longer a matter of if your organization is considering a move to the cloud, but when and how it will do so. The numbers don’t lie: according to IDC, the global cloud market is now worth $95.8 billion today and projected to grow another 23 percent in 2015. This white paper is your
The application economy is drastically changing the way businesses have to think and run. But a lack of understanding will easily prevent businesses from grabbing the app economy bull by the horns, as a negative experience with a business’s app will likely smear that business for the costumer for the foreseeable future. This is why
Remedying complex application performance problems often requires IT server, networking, and application administrators to assemble into a “war room” to troubleshoot the source of performance issues. Since each administrative team typically relies on its own discrete set of tools to monitor performance, these troubleshooting sessions can often be time consuming, contentious, and unproductive.
Enterprises have long considered live visibility into both network and application activity to be “musthaves” for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are brought together so that relationships and dependencies can be revealed and understood by multiple relevant stakeholders. Never has this
More than Asset Tracking and Passwords, too often MDM solutions are dumbed down to simplistic applications that track the usage and whereabouts of mobile devices deployed throughout the enterprise. While these are crucial functions of MDM, they only scratch the surface in terms of the potential more holistic solutions offer to optimize the return on
The rapid proliferation of mobile devices entering the workplace feels like divine intervention to many IT leaders. It’s as if a voice boomed down from the mountain ordering all of the employees you support to procure as many devices as possible and connect them to corporate services en masse. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was
Mobile devices are now a reality in most organizations. Building on Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM), organizations are increasingly developing their own enterprise apps for specific job tasks to improve productivity, business partnerships, customer satisfaction and bottom-line performance. But to achieve these benefits, it is imperative that mobile security best practices
The mainstream adoption of web-based applications, whether internally hosted, cloud hosted, or software as a service (SaaS), is transforming the ways in which enterprise-class applications are built, deployed, and consumed. While the evolution brings new levels of cost efficiency and flexibility, it also introduces new and unique visibility and control challenges for IT organizations, which
The realities of the modern IT landscape are daunting. Your business-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-tier, and span physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. To reach your end user, application transactions traverse complex networks and infrastructure that are handling ever-increasing loads. In light of this, never has it been more challenging to monitor the performance and