Podcasts about application performance management

James Underhill is the Senior Director of Sales Operations and Strategy at MongoDB. He started his career as a pre-sales engineer at Videology and later spent two years at Twitter as a Revenue Operations Analyst. Since joining MongoDB, James has been promoted four times and now leads the Sales Innovation team.In this episode, John McMahon and John Kaplan are joined by James Underhill to discuss the potential impact of AI on sales. They explore how AI can enhance sales productivity by automating time-consuming tasks and providing valuable insights. James breaks down the different stages of the sales process and explains how AI can be leveraged to improve territory management, discovery, preparation, coaching and forecasting. He emphasizes the importance of combining AI with human skills and highlights the need for curiosity, critical thinking, and a customer-centric approach in sales. The conversation also touches on the potential changes in the buying experience as AI becomes more prevalent in sales.HERE ARE SOME KEY SECTIONS TO CHECK OUT[00:04:42] Importance of combining IQ and EQ in leveraging AI tools[00:08:11] The role of human elements and trust in the sales process[00:11:15] Traditional territory management problem and the use of AI in contextualizing data[00:12:42] AI can assist with knowledge procurement and enablement for new reps[00:14:58] AI can aid in equitable territory management and hold managers accountable[00:21:00] AI can automate the process of gathering foundational information, but reps still need curiosity and hunger to progress in the sales cycle[00:22:21] AI will expose bottom reps and decrease ramp time[00:25:01] AI enables instant coaching and on-demand knowledge[00:34:08] AI can help transfer knowledge and boost productivity in sales[00:46:09] Warm introductions becoming more meaningful in salesADDITIONAL RESOURCESLearn more about aligning customer-facing teams to improve execution: https://forc.mx/48o1jyPConnect and learn more about James Underhill.https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-underhill-ba22313b/https://www.linkedin.com/company/mongodbinc/HIGHLIGHT QUOTES[00:54:42] "Are they planning a merger with another company and they're going to go bonkers? Are they launching a new product? Like it's hard to predict that. And so that's where the human element is really important."[00:55:08] "And now I'm taking that information and then I can have, I can use an assistant of sorts or a tool to help me understand how that translates into what you're going to pay over time. But it's not going to tell me, Hey, James, they're going to bill this over this time period. That's unlikely." 

Oracle's next-gen cloud platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, has been helping thousands of companies and millions of users run their entire application portfolio in the cloud. Today, the demand for OCI expertise is growing rapidly. Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Rohit Rahi, as they peel back the layers of OCI to discover why it is one of the world's fastest-growing cloud platforms.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, Kiran BR, Rashmi Panda, David Wright, the OU Podcast Team, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   ------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Lois: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me today is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi there! You're listening to our Best of 2023 series, where over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting six of our most popular episodes of the year. 00:47 Lois: Today is episode 2 of 6, and we're throwing it back to our very first episode of the Oracle University Podcast. It was a conversation that Niki and I had with Rohit Rahi, Vice President, CSS OU Cloud Delivery. During this episode, we discussed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's core coverage on different tiers. Nikita: But we began by asking Rohit to explain what OCI is and tell us about its key components. So, let's jump right in. 01:14 Rohit: Some of the world's largest enterprises are running their mission-critical workloads on Oracle's next generation cloud platform called Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. To keep things simple, let us break them down into seven major categories: Core Infrastructure, Database Services, Data and AI, Analytics, Governance and Administration, Developer Services, and Application Services.  But first, the foundation of any cloud platform is the global footprint of regions. We have many generally available regions in the world, along with multi-cloud support with Microsoft Azure and a differentiated hybrid offering called Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.  01:57 Rohit: We have building blocks on top of this global footprint, the seven categories we just mentioned. At the very bottom, we have the core primitives: compute, storage, and networking. Compute services cover virtual machines, bare metal servers, containers, a managed Kubernetes service, and a managed VMWare service.  These services are primarily for performing calculations, executing logic, and running applications. Cloud storage includes disks attached to virtual machines, file storage, object storage, archive storage, and data migration services. 02:35 Lois: That's quite a wide range of storage services. So Rohit, we all know that networking plays an important role in connecting different services. These days, data is growing in size and complexity, and there is a huge demand for a scalable and secure approach to store data. In this context, can you tell us more about the services available in OCI that are related to networking, database, governance, and administration? 03:01 Rohit: Networking features let you set up software defined private networks in Oracle Cloud. OCI provides the broadest and deepest set of networking services with the highest reliability, most security features, and highest performance.  Then we have database services, we have multiple flavors of database services, both Oracle and open source. We are the only cloud that runs Autonomous Databases and multiple flavors of it, including OLTP, OLAP, and JSON.  And then you can run databases and virtual machines, bare metal servers, or even Exadata in the cloud. You can also run open source databases, such as MySQL and NoSQL in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  03:45 Rohit: Data and AI Services, we have a managed Apache Spark service called Dataflow, a managed service for tracking data artifacts across OCI called Data Catalog, and a managed service for data ingestion and ETL called Data Integration.  We also have a managed data science platform for machine learning models and training. We also have a managed Apache Kafka service for event streaming use cases.  Then we have Governance and Administration services. These services include security, identity, and observability and management. We have unique features like compartments that make it operationally easier to manage large and complex environments. Security is integrated into every aspect of OCI, whether it's automatic detection or remediation, what we typically refer as Cloud Security Posture Management, robust network protection or encryption by default.  We have an integrated observability and management platform with features like logging, logging analytics, and Application Performance Management and much more.  04:55 Nikita: That's so fascinating, Rohit. And is there a service that OCI provides to ease the software development process? Rohit: We have a managed low code service called APEX, several other developer services, and a managed Terraform service called Resource Manager.  For analytics, we have a managed analytics service called Oracle Analytics Cloud that integrates with various third-party solutions.  Under Application services, we have a managed serverless offering, call functions, and API gateway and an Events Service to help you create microservices and event driven architectures.  05:35 Rohit: We have a comprehensive connected SaaS suite across your entire business, finance, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, advertising, sales, customer service, and marketing all running on OCI.  That's a long list. And these seven categories and the services mentioned represent just a small fraction of more than 80 services currently available in OCI.  Fortunately, it is quick and easy to try out a new service using our industry-leading Free Tier account. We are the first cloud to offer a server for just a penny per core hour.  Whether you're starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or migrating your entire data set into it, we can support you in your journey to the cloud.   06:28 Have an idea and want a platform to share your technical expertise? Head over to the new Oracle University Learning Community. Drive intellectual, free-flowing conversations with your peers. Listen to experts and learn new skills. If you are already an Oracle MyLearn user, go to MyLearn to join the Community. You will need to log in first. If you have not yet accessed Oracle MyLearn, visit mylearn.oracle.com and create an account to get started.  Join the conversation today! 07:04 Nikita: Welcome back! Now let's listen to Rohit explain the core constructs of OCI's physical architecture, starting with regions. Rohit: Region is a localized geographic area comprising of one or more availability domains.  Availability domains are one or more fault tolerant data centers located within a region, but connected to each other by a low latency, high bandwidth network. Fault domains is a grouping of hardware and infrastructure within an availability domain to provide anti-affinity. So think about these as logical data centers.  Today OCI has a massive geographic footprint around the world with multiple regions across the world. And we also have a multi-cloud partnership with Microsoft Azure. And we have a differentiated hybrid cloud offering called Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.  08:02 Lois: But before we dive into the physical architecture, can you tell us…how does one actually choose a region?  Rohit: Choosing a region, you choose a region closest to your users for lowest latency and highest performance. So that's a key criteria. The second key criteria is data residency and compliance requirements. Many countries have strict data residency requirements, and you have to comply to them. And so you choose a region based on these compliance requirements.  08:31 Rohit: The third key criteria is service availability. New cloud services are made available based on regional demand at times, regulatory compliance reasons, and resource availability, and several other factors. Keep these three criteria in mind when choosing a region.  So let's look at each of these in a little bit more detail. Availability domain. Availability domains are isolated from each other, fault tolerant, and very unlikely to fail simultaneously. Because availability domains do not share physical infrastructure, such as power or cooling or the internal network, a failure that impacts one availability domain is unlikely to impact the availability of others.  A particular region has three availability domains. One availability domain has some kind of an outage, is not available. But the other two availability domains are still up and running.  09:26 Rohit: We talked about fault domains a little bit earlier. What are fault domains? Think about each availability domain has three fault domains. So think about fault domains as logical data centers within availability domain.  We have three availability domains, and each of them has three fault domains. So the idea is you put the resources in different fault domains, and they don't share a single point of hardware failure, like physical servers, physical rack, top of rack switches, a power distribution unit. You can get high availability by leveraging fault domains.  We also leverage fault domains for our own services. So in any region, resources in at most one fault domain are being actively changed at any point in time. This means that availability problems caused by change procedures are isolated at the fault domain level. And moreover, you can control the placement of your compute or database instances to fault domain at instance launch time. So you can specify which fault domain you want to use.  10:29 Nikita: So then, what's the general guidance for OCI users?  Rohit: The general guidance is we have these constructs, like fault domains and availability domains to help you avoid single points of failure. We do that on our own. So we make sure that the servers, the top of rack switch, all are redundant. So you don't have hardware failures or we try to minimize those hardware failures as much as possible. You need to do the same when you are designing your own architecture.  So let's look at an example. You have a region. You have an availability domain. And as we said, one AD has three fault domains, so you see those fault domains here.  11:08 Rohit: So first thing you do is when you create an application you create this software-defined virtual network. And then let's say it's a very simple application. You have an application tier. You have a database tier.  So first thing you could do is you could run multiple copies of your application. So you have an application tier which is replicated across fault domains. And then you have a database, which is also replicated across fault domains.  11:34 Lois: What's the benefit of this replication, Rohit?  Rohit: Well, it gives you that extra layer of redundancy. So something happens to a fault domain, your application is still up and running.  Now, to take it to the next step, you could replicate the same design in another availability domain. So you could have two copies of your application running. And you can have two copies of your database running.  11:57 Now, one thing which will come up is how do you make sure your data is synchronized between these copies? And so you could use various technologies like Oracle Data Guard to make sure that your primary and standby-- the data is kept in sync here. And so that-- you can design your application-- your architectures like these to avoid single points of failure. Even for regions where we have a single availability domain, you could still leverage fault domain construct to achieve high availability and avoid single points of failure.  12:31 Nikita: Thank you, Rohit, for taking us through OCI at a high level.  Lois: For a more detailed explanation of OCI, please visit mylearn.oracle.com, create a profile if you don't already have one, and get started on our free training on OCI Foundations.  Nikita: We hope you enjoyed that conversation. Join us next week for another throwback episode. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham... Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 12:57 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. 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Guest: Howard Wilson, Chief Financial Officer at PagerDuty (Ticker: PD) Website: https://www.pagerduty.com/ Bio: Howard Wilson is the Chief Financial Officer at PagerDuty, where he leads the company's internal and strategic execution. In his role, he builds and directs the finance organization to support PagerDuty's growth and scaling. Before becoming CFO, he served as PagerDuty's Chief Commercial Officer, leading efforts to empower decision-making and provide ongoing customer value from the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Howard brings more than 20 years of experience in software, services, and operational management to his role. Before joining PagerDuty, Howard oversaw the SaaS business at Dynatrace, the leader in Application Performance Management. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Keynote Systems, where he managed all customer-facing operations. Howard also served as Senior Vice President of Field Operations at Ventyx, where he oversaw various functions, including business planning, sales operations, and recurring revenue operations. Prior to Ventyx, he spent 14 years in various senior leadership roles at Oracle. Howard holds a bachelor's degree in information systems and psychology from the University of South Africa. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smartmoneycircle/support

On this episode of Tech Talks Daily, we're coming to you live from the bustling show floor of Cisco Live in Las Vegas. Our focus today is on the evolution of technology adoption in the public sector, a field traditionally seen as lagging behind its private counterparts. We're busting myths and challenging stereotypes as we delve into the intriguing world of public services, proving that they are, indeed, keeping pace with the digital world. Our special guest is Brad Walsh, Lead Program Manager for Application Performance Management at the Indiana Office of Technology. Brad offers unique insights into the current technological shift in the public sector and reveals how governmental organizations are not just catching up, but in some areas, leading the charge in implementing cutting-edge solutions. We're shining a spotlight on Cisco's Full-Stack Observability (FSO), a game-changing solution that provides end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, and network layers. This powerful tool can transform IT operations and enhance overall business performance, boasting benefits like improved visibility, faster problem resolution, increased collaboration, scalability, and heightened security. But what does this look like when applied in the real world? How can it truly revolutionize public services and raise public expectations from government services? Brad Walsh will share his firsthand experience with the Cisco FSO and will reveal how this tech solution is transforming operations at the Indiana Office of Technology. Tune in for an eye-opening discussion about the future of public sector technology, straight from the heart of Cisco Live. We're breaking down barriers, shattering misconceptions, and bridging the gap between the public and private sectors. Don't miss out!

Ronak Zala is a performance engineer at VMware, California. At the Silicon Valley tech giant, he has developed various microservice applications from scratch. His Cloud JVM Profiling Service for distributed micro-service architectures is currently being applied at scale for monitoring and analysis at VMware's vCenter. He shares his fascinating journey as a software developer at VMware and the innovative environment which fostered his growth as a programmer. He also provides valuable experiences and exclusive insights about core engineering concepts including byte code manipulation, APMs, stack overflow, heap analysis, fixing memory leaks, low overhead memory management for optimizing CPU cycles, quantum computing, AHM-64, and much more. Watch Full Video https://bit.ly/techkraftpodcastvideo-18 Host : Ravi Mandal https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravimandal/ https://instagram.com/rvimandal Guest: Ronak Zala https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakzala/ TechKraft Inc info@techkraftinc.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/tech... https://facebook.com/techkraftinc http://instagram.com/techkraftinc

V tomto díle přijali pozvání Marek Potočiar a Martin Mareš z AppDynamics (Cisco) a tématem našeho povídání byl Application Performance Management a obecně observabilita. Kluci pracují na nástroji či službě AppDynamics a nasdíleli s námi celou řadu zajímavých technických postřehů. No skoro všechno Java, dýchla na nás nostalgie starých dobrých časů.

En este episodio de nuestro podcast hablamos sobre APM, Application Performance Management por sus siglas , y cómo nos ayuda a monitorizar, trazar y diagnosticar cualquier tipo de problema y, de esta forma mejorar la experiencia del usuario. Música: Aliaksei Yuknhevich - Background Ukulele Makesound - Ambient Motivational Inspirational

Die Welt des Monitorings unterscheidet zwischen verschiedenen Aspekten und Methoden. Zusammen mit den Kollegen von Cisco AppDynamics kümmern wir uns in dieser Episode um Application Performance Monitoring. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass dieses Thema längst nicht nur für DevOps spannend ist, sondern auch im Bereich SAP interessante Einblicke bietet. Insbesondere dort, wo viele Komponenten und unterschiedliche Technologien zum Einsatz kommen, hilft APM, den Überblick zu bewahren. Diese Einsichten in Verbindung mit dem Blick auf die Geschäftsprozesse machen das Bild komplett. Wie versprochen hier die Links zur Episode: https://www.appdynamics.com/free-trial/ BusinessIQ - Warum der Business Kontext bei APM wichtig ist: https://www.appdynamics.com/product/business-iqSecure Application: Kurze Demo: https://appdynamics.onemob.com/p/hse29va8j4p5i0k Gartner Application Security Hype Cycle https://www.appdynamics.com/resources/reports/gartner-application-security-hype-cycle-report

Die Welt des Monitorings unterscheidet zwischen verschiedenen Aspekten und Methoden. Zusammen mit den Kollegen von Cisco AppDynamics kümmern wir uns in dieser Episode um Application Performance Monitoring. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass dieses Thema längst nicht nur für DevOps spannend ist, sondern auch im Bereich SAP interessante Einblicke bietet. Insbesondere dort, wo viele Komponenten und unterschiedliche Technologien zum Einsatz kommen, hilft APM, den Überblick zu bewahren. Diese Einsichten in Verbindung mit dem Blick auf die Geschäftsprozesse machen das Bild komplett. Wie versprochen hier die Links zur Episode: https://www.appdynamics.com/free-trial/ BusinessIQ - Warum der Business Kontext bei APM wichtig ist:  https://www.appdynamics.com/product/business-iqSecure Application: Kurze Demo: https://appdynamics.onemob.com/p/hse29va8j4p5i0k Gartner Application Security Hype Cycle https://www.appdynamics.com/resources/reports/gartner-application-security-hype-cycle-report

You'll run it everywhere there's a production system. Some kind of Metrics collector like Statsd or InfluxDB. They work like magic, reporting on the health of your application. but how does it really happen? We dive in on how these Application Performance Management tools work and how do they really "see into" your application. We demistify all this magic, and actually describe how to add "new" metrics and how to publish it! If you ever worked in a production application, and were wondering how do these metrics get graphed and collected, well, wonder-no-more! We go deep into Micrometer (the SLF4J of Metrics) and how it all works! http://www.javaoffheap.com/datadog We thank DataDogHQ for sponsoring this podcast episode Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our cool NewsCast OffHeap! http://www.javaoffheap.com/ Micrometer https://micrometer.io/ Creating Meters https://micrometer.io/docs/concepts#_meters Spring Boot and Micrometer https://spring.io/blog/2018/03/16/micrometer-spring-boot-2-s-new-application-metrics-collector Statsd https://github.com/statsd/statsd Do you like the episodes? Want more? Help us out! Buy us a beer! https://www.javapubhouse.com/beer And Follow us! https://www.twitter.com/javapubhouse  

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Matt & Matt welcome Jasmin Young, CEO of Netreo, and Andrew Anderson President of Netreo for a special announcement: Matt Watson's Stackify has been acquired by Netreo.   Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/startuphustle This episode is powered by Full Scale: https://fullscale.io/ Learn more about Stackify: https://stackify.com/ Learn more about Netreo: https://www.netreo.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt & Matt discuss Stackify's recent acquisition, and what happens to Stackify once the deal wraps up.  Learn more about the acquisition here: https://fullscale.io/blog/stackify-acquired-by-netreo/ Learn more about Stackify: https://stackify.com/ Hear what the Startup Hustle TV cast has to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCfYZoVuudc Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/startuphustle This episode is powered by Full Scale: https://fullscale.io/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of The Humans of DevOps Podcast, DevOps Institute's very own Eveline Oehrlich joins Jason Baum to explore her epic journey through the IT Industry including challenges, triumphs and experiences that shaped the human she is today. Eveline is an independent research director at the DevOps Institute. She held the position of VP women in tech and Research Director at Forrester Research, where she led and conducted research on a variety of topics including DevOps, Digital Operational Excellence, IT and Enterprise Service Management, Cognitive Intelligence and Application Performance Management for 13 years. She has advised executives and teams around the world on challenges and potential changes in people, processes, and technology. She is the author of many research papers and thought leadership pieces and is a moderator and speaker. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry.Eveline helps companies adapt their IT organization, processes, and tools for high-performance teams that enable their business partners to achieve better business results. She has helped some of the world’s largest companies implement new strategies, workflows, and automation tools

IT-Systeme werden immer komplexer, doch dabei können allerhand Probleme auftreten. So führt die Heterogenität der IT-Systeme zum Beispiel dazu, dass Fehler oft erst im Störungsfall erkannt werden und die Fehlersuche dann erheblich erschwert ist. Helfen kann das Application Performance Management (APM). Wie? Das erklärt uns Daniel Bell, Quality Architect bei der T-Systems MMS GmbH.

IT-Systeme werden immer komplexer, doch dabei können allerhand Probleme auftreten. So führt die Heterogenität der IT-Systeme zum Beispiel dazu, dass Fehler oft erst im Störungsfall erkannt werden und die Fehlersuche dann erheblich erschwert ist. Helfen kann das Application Performance Management (APM). Wie? Das erklärt uns Daniel Bell, Quality Architect bei der T-Systems MMS GmbH.

This week, our host discusses Application Performance Management (APM) tools with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be part of an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform, and how it compares to other tools on the market.Gangesh answers the following questions: What are APM tools and how did they evolve to where they are today? What can happen by not effectively monitoring applications with some sort of tool? What are some of the challenges with current APM tools? How does the PeerNova Cuneiform Platform compare to an APM tool? Is it a competitor?

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds.

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds.

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds.

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds. The post Tech Bytes: SolarWinds’ APM Tools Work Together To Help IT Solve Application Problems (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds. The post Tech Bytes: SolarWinds’ APM Tools Work Together To Help IT Solve Application Problems (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

SolarWinds stops by the Tech Bytes podcast to talk about its Application Performance Management suite, which includes Web app and user experience monitoring, log management and analysis, and app infrastructure monitoring. We look at how they work together to help IT teams get to the bottom of application issues. Our guest is Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager of application management at SolarWinds. The post Tech Bytes: SolarWinds’ APM Tools Work Together To Help IT Solve Application Problems (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the History of Symantec. This is really more part one of a part two series. Broadcom announced they were acquiring Symantec in August of 2019, the day before we recorded this episode. Who is this Symantec and what do they do - and why does Broadcom want to buy them for 10.7 Billion dollars? For starters, by themselves Symantec is a Fortune 500 company with over $4 billion dollars in annual revenues so $10.7 Billion is a steal for an enterprise software company. Except they're just selling the Enterprise software division and keeping Norton in the family. With just shy of 12,000 employees, Symantec has twisted and turned and bought and sold companies for a long time. But how did they become a Fortune 500 company? It all started with Eisenhower. ARPA or the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which would later add the word Defense to their name, become DARPA and build a series of tubes call the interweb. While originally commissioned so Ike could counter Sputnik, ARPA continued working to fund projects in computers and in the 1970s, this kid out of the University of Texas named Gary Hendrix saw that they were funding natural language understanding projects. This went back to Turing and DARPA wanted to give some AI-complete a leap forward, trying to make computers as intelligent as people. This was obviously before Terminator told us that was a bad idea (pro-tip, it's a good idea). Our intrepid hero Gary saw that sweet, sweet grant money and got his PhD from the UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab. He wrote some papers on robotics and the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI for short. Yes, that's the same SRI that invented the hosts.txt file and is responsible for keeping DNS for the first decade or so of the internet. So our pal Hendrix joins SRI and chases that grant money, leaving SRI in 1980 with about 15 other Stanford researchers to start a company they called Machine Intelligence Corporation. That went bust and so he started Symantec Corporation in 1982 got a grant from the National Science foundation to build natural language processing software; it turns out syntax and semantics make for a pretty good mashup. So the new company Symantec built out a database and some advanced natural language code, but by 1984 the PC revolution was on and that code had been built for a DEC PDP so could not be run on the emerging PCs in the industry. Symantec was then acquired by C&E Software short for the names of its founders, Dennis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks. The Symantec name stayed and Eubanks became the chairman of the board for the new company. C&E had been working on PC software called Q&A, which the new team finished and then added natural language processing to make using the tools easier to use. They called that “The Intelligent Assistant” and they now had a tool that would take them through the 80s. People swapped rolls, and due to a sharp focus on sales they did well. During the early days of the PC, dealers - or small computer stores that were popping up all over the country, were critical to selling hardware and software. Every Symantec employee would go on the road for six days a week, visiting 6 dealers a day. It was grueling but kept them growing and building. They became what we now call a “portfolio” company in 1985 when they introduced NoteIt, a natural language processing tool used to annotate docs in Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus was in the midst of eating the lunch of previous tools. They added another devision and made SQZ a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet tool. This is important, they were a 3 product company with divisions when in 1987 they got even more aggressive and purchased Breakthrough Software who made an early project management tool called TimeLine. And this is when they did something unique for a PC software company: they split each product into groups that leveraged a shared pool of resources. Each product had a GM that was responsible for the P&L. The GM ran the development, Quality Assurance, Tech Support, and Product Market - those teams reported directly to the GM, who reported to then CEO Eubanks. But there was a shared sales, finance, and operations team. This laid the framework for massive growth, increased sales, and took Symantec to their IPO in 1989. Symantec purchased what was at the time the most popular CRM app called ACT! In 1993 Meanwhile, Peter Norton had a great suite of tools for working with DOS. Things that, well, maybe should have been built into operating systems (and mostly now are). Norton could compress files, do file recovery, etc. The cash Symantec raised allowed them to acquire The Peter Norton Company in 1999 which would completely change the face of the company. This gave them development tools for PC and Mac as Norton had been building those. This lead to the introduction of Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh and called the anti-virus for PC Norton Antivirus because people already trusted that name. Within two years, with the added sales and marketing air cover that the Symantec sales machine provided, the Norton group was responsible for 82% of Symantecs total revenues. So much so that Symantec dropped building Q&A because Microsoft was winning in their market. I remember this moment pretty poignantly. Sure, there were other apps for the Mac like Virex, and other apps for Windows, like McAfee. But the Norton tools were the gold standard. At least until they later got bloated. The next decade was fast, from the outside looking in, except when Symantec acquired Veritas in 2004. This made sense as Symantec had become a solid player in the security space and before the cloud, backup seemed somewhat related. I'd used Backup Exec for a long time and watched Veritas products go from awesome to, well, not as awesome. John Thompson was the CEO through that decade and Symantec grew rapidly - purchasing systems management solution Altiris in 2007 and got a Data Loss Prevention solution that year in Vontu. Application Performance Management, or APM wasn't very security focused so that business until was picked up by Vector Capital in 2008. They also picked up MessageLabs and AppStream in 2008. Enrique Salem replaced Thompson and Symantec bought Versign's CA business in 2010. If you remember from our encryption episode, that was already spun off of RSA. Certificates are security-focused. Email encryption tool PGP and GuardianEdge were also picked up in 2010 providing key management tools for all those, um, keys the CA was issuing. These tools were never integrated properly though. They also picked up Rulespace in 2010 to get what's now their content filtering solution. Symantec acquired LiveOffice in 2012 to get enterprise vault and instant messaging security - continuing to solidify the line of security products. They also acquired Odyssey Software for SCCM plugins to get better at managing embedded, mobile, and rugged devices. Then came Nukona to get a MAM product, also in 2012. During this time, Steve Bennett was hired as CEO and fired in 2014. Then Michael Brown, although in the interim Veritas was demerged in 2014 and as their products started getting better they were sold to The Carlyle Group in 2016 for $8B. Then Greg Clark became CEO in 2016, when Symantec purchased Blue Coat. Greg Clark then orchestrated the LifeLock acquisition for $2.3B of that $8B. Thoma Bravo then bought CA business to merge with DigiCert in 2017. Then in 2019 Rick Hill became CEO. Does this seem like a lot of buying and selling? It is. But it also isn't. If you look at what Symantec has done, they have a lot of things they can sell customers for various needs in the information security space. At times, they've felt like a holding company. But ever since the Norton acquisition, they've had very specific moves that continue to solidify them as one of the top security vendors in the space. Their sales teams don't spend six days a week on the road and go to six customers a day, but they have a sales machine. And the've managed to leverage that to get inside what we call the buying tornado of many emergent technologies and then sell the company before the tornado ends. They still have Norton, of course. Even though practically every other product in the portfolio has come and gone over the years. What does all of this mean? The Broadcom acquisition of the enterprise security division maybe tells us that Symantec is about to leverage that $10+ billion dollars to buy more software companies. And sell more companies after a little integration and incubation, then getting out of it before the ocean gets too red, the tech too stale, or before Microsoft sherlocks them. Because that's what they do. And they do it profitably every single time. We often think of how an acquiring company gets a new product - but next time you see a company buying another one, think about this: that company probably had multiple offers. What did the team at the company being acquired get out of this deal? And we'll work on that in the next episode, when we explore the history of Broadcom. Thank you for sticking with us through this episode of the History of Computing Podcast and have a great day!

We all live in a digital world.   The performance of a company’s applications affects customer satisfaction, employees and company revenue.  Application Performance Management (APM) is an extremely important tool that monitors performance issues and makes sure that they don’t have a negative effect on the bottom line.  In this TEC17 episode, Tanner Bechtel from World Wide Technology (WWT) and Josh King from AppDynamics (AppD) discuss this important topic.  They define APM and how it helps to monitor customer’s digital experience, why it is so important in today’s tech climate, as App loyalty is the new Brand loyalty, how the partnership between WWT and AppD is uniquely positioned to deliver these solutions and they provide a look to the future of APM and Artificial Intelligence Operations (AIOPS).   AIOps Article

What kind of gremlins lurk within the millions of lines of code that comprise your company's applications? Are they slowing transactions down? Causing your applications to use more capacity than they'd otherwise need? Stressing the system in ways that create a poor customer experience? Application Performance Management tools help you establish baselines for your environment, set thresholds for alerts, and give you the visibility you need to stay ahead of any problems those gremlins may create before they can do any damage. Today we speak with Kyle Tyacke, Ravi Lachhman, and Marco Coulter of the AppDynamics team. They explain why APM tools are important, how they're leveraged in the real world, and why AppD is uniquely equipped among those APM tools to help you identify problems within your applications and resolve them quickly.

As Rigor’s Chief Customer Officer, Francis Cordón leads the various technical customer-facing teams such as pre-sales engineering, professional services, technical support and ongoing customer management focusing on creating a smooth, positive and valuable customer experience. Francis is absolutely passionate about establishing a results-oriented performance practice and creating an industry-recognised performance maturity scale to help organisations evolve and achieve clearly documented increasing levels of ROI by eliminating outages and improving application performance. In the past, Francis held roles both at Performance Management Software vendors helping Fortune 500 organisations achieve their performance goals, as well as running Performance Architecture and the Application Performance Management practice at The Bank Of New York Mellon end-to-end across the application life cycle from development to production. In his spare time, Francis enjoys traveling with his wife, practicing traditional Martial Arts, and playing the guitar.

On this very special episode of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast, we have live interviews from the first day of NEXT! Melanie and Mark had the chance to chat with Melody MeckFessel, VP of Engineering at Google Cloud and Pavan Srivastava of Deloitte. Next we spoke with Sandeep Dinesh about Open Service Broker and Raejeanne Skillern of Intel. Melody Meckfessel Melody Meckfessel is a hands-on technology leader with more than 20 years experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and solving problems at scale. As VP of Engineering, she leads the team building DevOps tools and sharing DevOps best practices across Google and with software development and operations teams around the world. Her team powers the world’s most advanced continuously delivered software, enabling development teams to turn ideas into reliable, scalable production systems. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Melody programmed for startups and enterprise companies. Since joining Google in 2004, Melody has led teams in Google’s core search systems, search quality and cluster management. Melody is passionate about making software development fast, scalable and fun. Pavan Srivastava Pavan is a technology leader with 20 years of experience in developing strategies and implementation of SAP focused technology solutions. Pavan leads Deloitte’s SAP technology capability that focuses on helping clients adopt innovative technology solutions such as cloud and SAP HANA to improve business efficiencies. Pavan has led several engagements helping clients develop strategy, architecture and implement SAP on the cloud and SAP HANA platform. Sandeep Dinesh Sandeep Dinesh is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud. He blends and creates new opportunities for businesses and people by leveraging the best technology possible. Raejeanne Skillern Raejeanne Skillern is the VP of Data Center and General Manager of Intel’s cloud service provider (CSP) business. Her goal is to make it easier, more cost-effective and more efficient for CSPs to build new infrastructure and services. She is privileged to lead an exceptional team that manages Intel’s business, products and technologies for cloud infrastructure deployments and works closely with the world’s largest cloud providers to ensure Intel’s data center products are optimized for their unique needs. Interviews Cloud AutoML site GKE On-Prem site Melody Meckfessel’s Speaking Schedule at NEXT site DevOps site Google Open Source site Cloud Build site Spinnaker site Kubernetes site Stackdriver site Application Performance Management site OpenCensus site Deloitte site SAP site Deloitte and Google Cloud blog Google Cloud Platform Service Broker site Open Service Broker site Pub/Sub site Cloud Spanner site Intel Cloud Computing site Intel Xeon site Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory site Partnering with Intel and SAP on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for SAP HANA blog Where can you find us next? We’ll both be at Cloud NEXT in Moscone West on the first floor! Come by and say hi!

We sit down with Yadiraj Narayana, Architect at AppDynamics and discuss what is APM, it's relevance within a DevOps environment, key application metrics as well as review a number of real world APM case studies.

Cloud is the new normal, and organizations are deploying different types workloads on AWS. Understanding the performance efficiency and overall application performance is critical to ensuring that you can scale your workload to meet the demands of your customers. Understanding how well your application performs over time helps you to continuously improve and innovate your software to get the most out of the AWS platform. If you aren't measuring custom application metrics, you are operating your software blindly and cannot pinpoint areas of improvement. Learn how to use Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics, alerts, dashboards and AWS X-Ray to architect an application monitoring service to provide insight to your workload's performance.

Die Aquise des US-Unternehmens erweitert das Leistungsangebot von Riverbed SteelCentral für eine optimierte End-to-end Transparenz über Applikationen, Netzwerke und Benutzer. Wichtige Plattform im Rahmen von hybrid Cloud-Computing und der digitalen Transformation...

For week 3 of this podcast series, Ian Molyneaux is talking about APM and the key role it plays in Performance Analysis.

I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of Liferay's go-to resources for performance tuning and monitoring. Brett had a presentation on DevOps Best Practices with Liferay, Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch, and New Relic at Devcon (among other symposiums and events). If you missed it or just want the audio summary (both were my motivations to talk to him), we're talking about his experience, using one of the projects (an unnamed one) as an example. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Understanding Mobile APM or Application Performance Management: Why its So Critical and Complicated as Peggy and Shahab welcome Maneesh Joshi, theSenior Director, Product Marketing and Strategy at AppDynamics. We also learn the why mobile behavioral analytics is key when talking about an app business, not just an app.

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Wouldn't it be great to have a crystal ball that would warn us when our business critical application performance was starting to slip? Unfortunately we can't predict this and when it happens, we engage in finger pointing matches, nerve racking troubleshooting exercises, and sometimes end up losing internal/external customer goodwill. What combination of tools and other elements need to be in place, in order to keep application performance on track and predictable, monitor it, and more importantly, get it back on track quickly if it slips?

Gary Kaiser, Compuware’s subject matter expert for Application Performance Management (APM), provides an overview of APM design, implementation and operation fundamentals. Gary provides tips on getting started with APM, along with practical and achievable steps toward better service delivery.