Throughout our Patient Care Performance Management (PCPM) series, we have reviewed individual performance management categories. When I consider the notion of “Advanced APM”, I see it as APM (based in traffic flow data) combined with a “service based” mentality. This leverages APM+ metrics … Continue reading
Category Archives: Application Triage
Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism, specifically in the area of Critical Services? As we work from the bottom up in creating the strategy, I will admit that this topic may not be extremely “sexy”. But … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism? How can I use my Application and Network Performance Management tools to help assist? Nope, not starting this article out with 80’s movie reference, music video, silly … Continue reading
While traffic utilization and link error rates (NPM) have their place and uses, we must look deeper to truly impact patient care. Service enablers for example are services which are often overlooked and neglected, yet have the most widespread impact to … Continue reading
Network Performance Management’s (NPM) roots date back to the early 90s with emergence of SNMP, MIBII, and NetFlow. Quickly every IT shop, small and large, had various toolsets graphing all sorts of network metrics. Many of Network Managers lived and … Continue reading
When I refer to Patient Care Performance Management (PCPM), I am referring to applying Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) strategies in a healthcare environment. (While this is directly applicable to healthcare, these can also be applied to other … Continue reading
Problem to Solve – My company is experiencing application response time and DNS issues in our IPV4 environment. What could be the issue to troubleshoot and resolve this pain? This topic is so easy and well documented I paused before actually … Continue reading
Problem to Solve – My company is having application performance issues, and there is a high suspicion they are being caused by network packet loss. What can we do ? One of the most exasperating activities for any networking … Continue reading
Problem to Solve – My company has many different IT and business solutions and it is difficult to a get a “single pane of glass” service dashboard to see how everything is performing. What can we do? I will admit that … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: How can we guarantee the collection of network traffic that feeds our APM/NPM, Security, & Big Data tools inside of our production network? In my previous video blog, I discussed the use of SPANs with their associated pros and cons (“To … Continue reading