Stop Playing the "Whack-a-Mole" Game

We recently hired TechValidate to survey our customer base and heard some great stories about how IT organizations are using wire data analytics to work more efficiently.

One Global 500 financial services company reported, "We are now able to isolate and remediate many potential customer-impacting issues prior to severity thresholds being met, often in less than one minute of the occurrence beginning. The flexibility through triggers and alerts allows us to become more predictive in remediation, rather than just playing the reactionary whack-a-mole game."

Read the survey results.  

HTTP Compression and Other ADC Optimization Wins

ExtraHop is a great way to evaluate the effectiveness of application delivery controller (ADC) policies and settings. One IT team used ExtraHop to optimize how its F5 BIG-IP supported a critical sales productivity application.

Learn how to tune ADC performance.   

Paying Down Technical Debt in Your IT Infrastructure

Technical debt is one of the most important concepts that IT operations professionals must learn. A character in the DevOps novel The Phoenix Project describes it this way: "Like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work."

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Target Data Breach: Alerts, Alerts Everywhere and Nary a Drop of Insight

In case you missed it, Bloomberg Businessweek published an in-depth report that describes how Target's security team was alerted to the data breach but did not take action. One wonders how many alerts the Target team received each day. It's a familiar and chilling scenario that points to the need for organizational adjustments to take full advantage of new technology.

We recommend a follow-on article from Network World that discusses the operational and policy changes that can prevent alert-fatigue.