Application Management: Views on the Market

Foglight in 1H08

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:20:00 GMT

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

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:13:00 GMT

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

The Performance Roadmap

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:49:00 GMT

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

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:46:00 GMT

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.

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:12:00 GMT

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...