CEP on Ulitzer

I have yet to meet anyone in Dev or Ops who likes alerts. I’ve also yet to meet anyone who was fast enough to acknowledge an alert, so they could prevent an application from slowing down or crashing. In the real world alerts just don’t work, nobody has the time or patience anymore, alerts are truly evil and no-one trusts them. The most efficient alert today is an angry end user phone call, because Dev and Ops physically hear and feel the pain of someone suffering Why? There is little or no intelligence in how a monitoring solution determines what is normal or abnormal for application performance. Today, monitoring solutions are only as good as the users that configure them, which is bad news because humans make mistakes, configuration takes time, and time is something many of us have little of. It's therefore no surprise to learn that behavioral learning and analyti... (more)

Fujitsu Launches Cloud Services as a Platform for Big Data

Fujitsu on Monday announced the launch of Data Utilization Platform Services, which use cloud services as a platform leveraging big data. This is a cloud service for gathering, compiling, and integrating massive quantities of sensing data; combining it with knowledge; processing it using realtime processing or batch processing; and using it for such purposes as making future projections. It covers four specific services offerings: Data Management & Integration Services, Communications Control Services, Data Collection and Detection Services, and Data Analysis Services. Fujitsu is p... (more)

No Fragile, “Cobbled” Solution Need Apply

The number of vendors vying for the application performance management space has exploded in the last year. Almost every vendor in the space comes to it from a specific strength and has expanded its core offering to provide some level of application performance management (APM). What differentiates a strong APM solution from one that is a fragile, cobbled solution? Strong APM solutions are built to integrate into complex application environments. It won’t require you to replace your existing application monitoring tools. It will leverage them. Fragile APM solutions aren’t scal... (more)

Does 'Teaching to the Test' Actually Encourage Cheating?

"Teachers matter," said President Obama this week in his State of the Union address. "Instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn." WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Mark Hyatt, President & CEO, Character Education Partnership: (Logo: http://photo... (more)

Starboard Value Delivers Letter to CEO and Board of Directors of Progress Software

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starboard Value LP (together with its affiliates, "Starboard"), today reported a 5.1% ownership stake in Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) and announced that it delivered a letter to the Company's President and CEO, Jay Bhatt, and the Board of Directors.  In the letter, Starboard stated its belief that Progress Software is deeply undervalued, and at its current price, the Company's Application Development Platforms (ADP) segment alone is worth as much as, if not more than, the entire market value of the Company.  Starboard believ... (more)