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You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.
We’ve partnered with Instana since 2016, when they first came to market with a refreshingly modern and easy-to-deploy infrastructure monitoring tool. This quickly evolved into a fully-fledged Application Performance Management...
At Application Performance, as independent application performance specialists, we take a keen interest in the capabilities of the major APM vendors. When it comes to monitoring Kubernetes in particular, application...
If you build or manage a web site or web application, then performance and user experience will be top priorities for you. Knowing which metrics to collect and which ones...
In Application Performance Management (APM), there are two main technologies used to measure end-user perspective performance: synthetic transaction monitoring (STM) and real user monitoring (RUM).
For many of you, working from home has recently become the new normal. As someone who has mostly worked from home over the past 15 years, lockdown has meant very...
We’ve all heard the expression that beauty is only skin deep—and believe it or not, this can be applied to website design. When a big brand unveils a flashy new...
We happened upon a website recently, following an unrelated Google search and, out of curiosity, decided to run a Rigor performance test against it, due to its tardy response. The...
We are living in unprecedented times, doing unprecedented things, and living in an unprecedented way… Things that we took for granted, only a month ago, are now distant memories. We’re...
Dear Customers and Partners, we want to take a moment to share with you the approach that we are taking to support our staff, customers, partners, and community during this...
Last year we made the decision to move both our blogs (blog.applicationperformance.com and blog.webtuna.com) to a Jekyll generated static site. Static sites are in fashion right now because they are...
In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline.
This post may seem very early, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Day this week (15-16th July 2019) is a good reminder that as an e-commerce platform you really do need...
OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...
Last week the AppDynamics Global Tour arrived in London and it was great to meet many of our customers there. The event was aimed at technologists driving transformation in their industries,...
OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...
Last week we launched a new free web performance report on our website. The report is generated using the optimisation engine from our partner Rigor who analyse your website against a database...
ELEXON is vital to the running of the GB electricity wholesale market. Its role is to compare how much electricity generators and suppliers say they will produce or consume against...
When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...
During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...
Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...
Continuing with our recent Rigor announcement, I was recently questioned over some advice I had given on domain sharding, and whether it was still relevant today.
After the success of our last industry dinner in November 2018, we are pleased to hold another at Gaucho (City) London. We look forward to you joining the informal discussion...
You may have seen our recent announcement, but if not, we’re pleased to reveal that we are now officially the sole UK representative of Rigor; we look forward to helping many more businesses enjoy...
Rigor and Application Performance announce UK web performance monitoring and optimisation partnership.
Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...
Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...
You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...
For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...
We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets.
While our legs and backs may not have quite fully recovered yet, we are now a week since the successful Devoxx conference ended, and we thought it would be a...
OverOps adds a new feature to time the response time of Java Methods, alert when they exceed their targets, and see the complete source-code and variable states responsible.
AppDynamics Winter ‘17 product release, also known as version 4.4 of their App iQ Platform, was launched recently. Many SaaS customers will have already been upgraded to this latest version,...
For most organisations Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a journey, not a destination. Here are some of the typical steps along that journey. See where you are in your organisation....
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You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Singles Day?
At AP we love partnering with innovative companies, and are really pleased to introduce you to Ymor, and their CEO, Martin van den Berge. Martin started Ymor back in 2003,...
Last week Dockercon 17took place in Copenhagen so we thought it topical to discuss Docker monitoring and why it matters. In this article we also look at some of the...
Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven IT operations analytics firm. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, which it purchased for $3B early...
With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we thought we would take a look at Zombie VMs and how you can eradicate them from your virtualised datacenter. Unlike the...
If you are running the free version of New Relic Server monitoring you will have received an email notifying you that as of November 14th, 2017 New Relic Servers and...
With Turbonomic’s previous release, they extended their platform’s on-premises capabilities with new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments. In Turbonomic 6.0 they are going...
Yesterday AP sponsored and attended Nexthink’s annual customer event. This year rebranded as Experience’17 compared to Analytics’16 last year with the company choosing to focus on why it does what...
One of the main drivers for the adoption of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is the complexity and dynamism of modern applications. Take a simple example - caching.
Register for the Java 9 First Impressions Webinar Java 9 is here and it’s expected to revolutionize the way we think of and build large scale applications. In this...
Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar
As a Turbonomic partner we invite you to participate in a discussion with your peers around consumption, costs and compliance constraints.
Application Performance are a partner of Turbonomic and also Cisco now through their acquisition of AppDynamics. So we followed with interest their recently announced partnership.
On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...
Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...
Control F1 in Northern Tech top 10 fastest growing companies We’d like to congratulate our long-standing partner Control F1, who have been placed in the top 10 in the fastest...
Turbonomic recently announced major advancements to our hybrid cloud management platform with Turbonomic 5.9, enabling customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud.
Wow… not just #1 in the UK but now #3 in Europe as well !
RyanAir operate more than 1800 flights per day carrying over 116 million passengers every year. They have a team of more than 10,000 highly skilled aviation professionals delivering Europe’s number...
Turbonomic is an application performance control platform that enables you to guarantee the quality of service for those applications whilst using the underlying infrastructure our cloud as efficiently as possible.
TechValidate found that 90% of CIOs and CTOs trust Turbonomic. This was based on a survey of customers who were highly likely to recommend Turbonomic.
We’re excited to announce that our partner OverOps has been chosen by Gartner to be one of the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis! Out of over 2,000 developer...
As the repercussions of the WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) RansomWare attack continues this week, it once again highlights the risks cyber attacks pose to businesses around the globe.
Join the webinar to hear Security Expert Matthew Aylard of Nexthink discuss the risks and what can be done to avoid becoming the victim of a cyber attack.
With the release of v6.10, Nexthink continues to improve its integration with ServiceNow. With Nexthink, the ServiceNow console is populated with real-time end-user analytics that improve incident management, problem management,...
Last week more than 1,000 people from 34 countries gathered at AppD Summit Europe in London. Thank you to everyone who attended to make this APM summit the largest to date...
This latest release brings end-user feedback to new heights! The End-user Feedback module offers a simple yet effective method for gathering direct feedback from end users. It gives you both...
New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT. Join Nexthink for“Three key steps to transform your IT department from a technology gatekeeper to a business enabler”....
Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...
Last week AppDynamics interviewed AP co-founder Mick McGuinness ahead of their upcoming AppD Summit Europe Event to talk about APM, sector trends and more. AP are specialist APM consultancy and long-term AppDynamics partner and a Platinum sponsor at...
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with digital strategists Metalogix on Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online on 3 March....
AppDynamics does a great job of understanding the performance and quality of the user experience delivered by your applications, as well as deep insights into how well the multiple servers,...
AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...
We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of AppDynamics Summit Europe 2017.
We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of SQL Saturday in September.
Hot on the heels of version 6.8, released back in January 2017, Nexthink v6.9 is just around the corner, and expected to be GA on March 27th 2017.
Many applications can be thought of as a pipeline, with things being fed in at one end and emerging in a modified form at the other end. Here throughput is...
As a consultant I often get called in to help organisations improve the performance of their applications. The first requirement is usually to install some monitoring to see what is...
I’m sure that you have all heard the exiting news that Cisco has announced it’s intent to purchase AppDynamics. We have worked with AppDynamics since their first beginnings here in the UK, and...
The graphic below looks back at the history of Application Performance Management. Starting from the late 90’s when the first solutions started to appear, such as Precise, Wily, Mecury Interactive...
Like the delegates who attended Mick McGuinness’ webinar last week on ‘What Can SharePoint Learn from E-commerce’, I was intrigued by the ways in which common SharePoint issues are being...
Listen to Russell Luke, Managing Director of Application Performance talk about how Application Performance and AppDynamics partner to monitor “one version of the truth” across all aspects of your applications.
Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.
At AppSphere 2016, the AppDynamics annual global conference in Las Vegas last week, we learned about a new integration with ServiceNow. The ServiceNow App is available immediately to download from...
We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...
Industry analyst Forrester recently released their latest analysis of the top 14 application performance management (APM) vendors and evaluated them against 28 criteria. AP partner AppDynamics came out on top when compared...
AP partner AppDynamics has scored top in Gartner’s recent report into Application Performance Management (APM). Ranked against its competitors, AppDynamics garnered the highest scores in all categories which included:
AppDynamics is now being used to provide business-wide visibility into the customer experience – both in production and during the test and development phase at Tesco.
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with Brett Lonsdale, owner of Lightning Tools, a Microsoft® SharePoint® tools and web parts vendor.
We are delighted to announce that we will be running a webinar entitled How to Get Great Performance from your Network presented by network specialist, Cliff Chapman.
We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’
We are pleased to announce that Mick McGuinness, Technical Director of Application Performance will be speaking at the SharePoint User Group on Thursday 17th September.
Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...
We’re delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting and speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge on 12th September.
Application Performance are sponsors and exhibitors at SharePoint Saturday.
If you’re concerned with delivering a smooth Office 365 migration, we’re focusing on these issues next Thursday 26 November in a day of webinars and public appearances by the AP...
We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.
We are delighted to announce that SharePoint expert Simon Hudson from Cloud 2 is to present an AP webinar on SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud.
We’re delighted that Riverbed has now concluded the eagerly awaited review of its brands, delivering more clearly defined products that we’re pleased to be able to offer our customers.
Precisely how do you analyse the cause of a fault with your SaaS products and find out whether it’s something you can fix?
We’re impressed with the new version of AppDynamics’ comprehensive and smart Application Performance Management software which not only presents more features but does so with responsive and multi-layered custom dashboards....
