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Author:	Tyler Jewell	Created:	4/3/2008 11:14 AM
Author: Tyler Jewell, Senior Director of Product Management, Application Management Guest Bloggers: Quest Product Team Blog Topics: Industry trends in application management, challenges Quest sees in customer sites, vendor activity, tool innovation, and more... Related Blogs: See blogs about Service Level, End User, Application Performance, Database, and Virtualization and Management

Foglight in 1H08

By Tyler Jewell on 7/18/2008 12:20 PM

Every quarter at Quest, we go through a series of business reviews with executive management. Each business unit prepares a summary of the business, key findings, and action plans for the coming quarter. We take three full days to review each business individually with stakeholders representing a cross-section of the company from R&D to sales to PSO to finance and everything in between.

The Cost to Manage a Metric

By Tyler Jewell on 6/3/2008 9:13 AM

In my last post, we started to talk about a performance management roadmap. In this post, I’d like to share some of my thoughts around the nature of the APM problem that we are trying to solve and the economic implications of that.

We’ve been working around this theory that the goal of APM is to identify the root cause of any issue whether it has happened, is happening, or will happen, and then take protective measures to prevent it from repeating. One approach to solving this problem says that it’s key to have every possible metric generated by an environment collected and kept historically. While this is impossible from a number of dimensions, let’s exercise this philosophy a bit. Disr Read More »

The Performance Roadmap

By Tyler Jewell on 5/9/2008 9:49 AM

Over the past few months, we have been working on a performance management roadmap. An industry-level view of how enterprises have viewed performance management, what they are doing with it today, and where it's going in the future. I wanted to share some early thoughts we've had in how we are characterizing the problem and the types of solutions the market is going to need in the future to solve the problems facing us.

Foglight Launched at Gartner ITExpo and Symposium

By Tyler Jewell on 4/9/2008 9:46 AM

We have spent the week at the Gartner ITExpo and Symposium taking place at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

Welcome to Foglight.org! Let's Discuss Application Management.

By Tyler Jewell on 4/3/2008 8:12 PM

My name is Tyler Jewell and I head product management for Quest’s application management business. For Quest, application management includes systems management solutions for application environments and solutions targeting enterprise database deployments. This blog will focus on markets trends, common challenges, possible solutions...and more...