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Thousands of abandoned or rarely used applications cost organizations millions of dollars every year, according to recent survey results. IT can be more vigilant in curing this application bloat within the infrastructure, which is just waiting to wreak financial havoc on the enterprise. Without thorough monitoring of these unused applications, millions more dollars in operating costs are at risk, along with overall IT performance. More than half of the respondents of the survey, conducted by research firm Harris Interactive, believed this IT diagnosis was affecting their infrastructure.
Here are five tips for how an application performance monitoring (APM) solution can diagnose bloated apps and bring your infrastructure back to life:
1) Focus on what's important
The Symptom: There's a storm of noise with applications and the din intensifies when there are performance issues (e.g., your monitors may generate a large number of alerts in no particular order that indicate any number of problems, but it's difficult to see the true root cause of the issue).
The Cure: Using an APM solution, IT can see all alarms correlated within the context of associated applications, users, and transactions and can quickly spot the root cause of an application performance issue instead of spending a lot of unnecessary time solving 'symptoms' or peripheral issues.
2) Make sense of the complexity
The Symptom: As enterprises grow, so do the number and complexity of their applications. Many IT departments are at the mercy of independent, seemingly unrelated alerts to make them aware of performance issues across their environment. These alerts can be overwhelming and contradictory, with disparate teams dealing with each separate alert. The database team deals with database-related alerts, and the network team with network-based alerts, but nobody is looking for trends or cross-function relationships between any of the alerts, making resolution much more difficult.
The Cure: IT needs to look at alerts in a different way, to avoid traditional first-in-first-out processing by multiple individual technology silo teams who have no way to understand which individual alerts are associated with what business impact or priority. An APM solution provides a more accurate picture of the complete problem, its severity, the issues that need to be resolved, and in what order.
3) Cut through the complaints
The Symptom: Any time there's a performance issue, IT is inundated with complaints. To further complicate things, stakeholders sometimes provide inaccurate information, which results in an incomplete and inaccurate picture of the performance issue.
The Cure: IT can proactively identify these issues before the barrage of angry phone calls by leveraging tools that quantify performance issues with actual facts. IT can then see exactly what users are seeing in real-time, with full correlation to what is happening within the associated applications and infrastructure.
4) See it from the user's point of view
The Symptom: As applications become more complex and users become increasingly savvy in how they use them, expectations about application performance increase.
The Cure: Developers and IT often don't adopt a user's perspective when pinpointing application problems, even though this can be the fastest path to resolution. An intuitive APM solution will help you see exactly what your application users see, so you can resolve problems faster.
5) Keep up with the pace of change
The Symptom: To meet or exceed users' expectations, apps must be upgraded more regularly than ever before. This constant cycle demands new ways of looking at application development, deployment and day-to-day management ─ including formalized Agile Development and DevOps disciplines, in which APM plays a critical central role.
The Cure: As enterprises embrace the fact that their critical apps need to be constantly updated, they must ensure that the updates perform optimally. APM enables IT to continually monitor performance from development and test cycles all the way through production, minimizing the number of post-deployment performance 'surprises.'
So, the ultimate cure? Exterminate application bloat with APM and stop the drain on financial resources and overall IT performance. The enterprise ─ and your infrastructure ─will be glad you did.
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- 1 teaspoon baking powder
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- 1 large egg
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- 1 1/4 cups pine nuts, lightly toasted
Bring 1 1/2 cups water to boil in small saucepan. Add tea leaves. Remove from heat. Cover and let steep 15 minutes.
Strain tea into small bowl; discard tea leaves. Add raisins and currants; let soak 45 minutes. Strain soaking liquid from raisin mixture; reserve 3/4 cup soaking liquid and raisin mixture separately. Discard any remaining liquid.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2-inch metal loaf pan. Sift flour, sugar and baking powder into medium bowl. Add reserved 3/4 cup soaking liquid, corn syrup, egg and vanilla. Using electric mixer, beat until well blended. Stir in raisin mixture and pine nuts. Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top.
Bake bread until deep golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn bread out onto rack. Cool completely. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Wrap in plastic; store at room temperature.)
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The Effects of Guidance Frequency and Guidance Goal on Managerial Decisions
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2012
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Grammy-nominated producer Rich Harrison has worked with a "Who's Who" list of the industry's top acts, including Usher, Mary J. Blige and Beyonce. Last year the budding producer started up his own label, Richcraft Records, and immediately signed singer Young Steff to be his flagship artist. After securing a deal for the singer, Harrison brokered a distribution deal with Atlantic Records and they were quickly on their way. After providing Steff with a beat for the single Dat Girl Right Dere, Harrison turned around and pawned it off to Usher for a song of the same title. In order to once again build a buzz for his generation-next artist, Harrison has crafted Put That On Everything. While Steff's vocals sound sped up (or Harrison gave this one to the Chipmunks to use), they match the increasingly high-level of BPM. Does this track bump over headphones? No. In the club with a few drinks? Possibly. With more than a few drinks? Now we're getting somewhere.
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Music review: Letter to Santa
Date: December 16, 2009
by: June LeBell | Music Critic
Dear Santa,
Rather than ask for gifts specifically for me, I thought I'd ask for some things my adopted city of almost eight years needs really, really badly. Ready?
1. We need a centralized ticket center.
You see, Sarasota is a cultural kingdom. We have so many arts organizations here, it's hard to keep track. And we need a place where the smaller ensembles can sell tickets from one central office — sort of like Ticketmaster, but not so expensive. Someone tried to start a place like that a few years ago, but it was by Internet access only. And, as you know, not everyone in Sarasota is computer literate.
2. We need a centralized arts calendar.
This could be started on the Internet and then printed in a free calendar — as a handout — with changes made each month. Those of us in smaller arts organizations need to have a place where we can post all of our events for everyone to see what we're doing. And we need to have links to our own Web sites and links to our ticket office. (Editor's note: Visit YourObserver.com for a comprehensive Arts and Entertainment calendar. Also, see SEASON magazine in the Jan. 7 issue of The Observers.)
3. We need an Arts Center.
Something patterned along the lines of Lincoln Center or the Kennedy Center would be nice — with a concert hall specifically for our wonderful orchestra and visiting classical ensembles; a smaller recital/chamber music theater for the Sarasota Music Festival, La Musica, Perlman Music Program and the myriad choral and chamber ensembles visiting and residing in this cultural paradise; and a black-box theater that could be used by small-theater companies such as The Banyan, as well as lectures series like SILL.
I hope you don't think I'm asking too much, Santa. I know these things don't happen magically, and, perhaps, a whole music center is a bit too big to fit into your sack this year. But maybe some of your elves could get together to do something. I'd be glad to help.
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