Charles Rich

Nastel recently joined a conversation on Infoworld.com around what writer Dan Tynan described as “IT’s worst addictions.” From our perspective, data is one of these addictions, and by far one of the biggest pain points that the IT industry is forced to deal with today. ‘Big Data’ is the hot potato of 2012—everyone is talking about it and the term is increasingly tossed around within operational circles in organizations. Everyone wants to know “What are we doing about Big Data?” or “What’s our Big Data strategy?” If you’re a vendor and you don’t have a solution to manage it, analyze it, optimize it, minimize it, or otherwise be involved in Big Data, you’ve missed the bandwagon. How much of it is hype? Mr. Tynan correctly identified data as an IT addiction to be dealt with. Technology and culture are pushing us toward a critical point where information will be gener... (more)

Sorting Through the APM Clutter

Alexander Podelko, a performance expert working with Oracle, recently wrote a blog post in which he takes a look at the current state of the APM market and what he thinks needs to change in order for companies to get the most out of their solutions. In his post, Alex discusses the vagueness around the term APM – is it Application Performance Monitoring or Application Performance Management? The APM market is fairly crowded and not well defined – every solution claims to be the best at monitoring all of your application performance needs; however, that just isn’t the reality. And... (more)

Nastel Named to EMA’s APM Elite

We’re very excited to announce that Enterprise Management Associates has named Nastel Technologies a Value Leader in the latest EMA Radar™ for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: Q1 2012 report. Report author and Research Director, Julie Craig, notes that Nastel is known as a lower cost APM alternative, and in particular, focused on delivering rich APM functionality at less cost than the traditional solutions. Craig says the company’s flagship product, AutoPilot, is a top-notch aggregator of data that has the ability to assimilate and analyze data from its... (more)

Making Big Data into Small Data

It isn’t every day you get to write about Immanuel Kant and Big Data in the same blog post but last week Gartner Analyst Will Cappelli did just that. As you’ll see in his post, “AI and IAM: Will Two-Tier Analytics Become the Norm for IAM?” context is the key. Cappelli addresses Kant’s conclusion that human reasoning is a two-tier process that first involves what is—the contextual lens in which we view our existence—and how the pieces all relate to each other. From this standpoint, we reason and make decisions.   In technology, our view and approach to something like Big Data is im... (more)

You’ve Got to See It to Believe It

Is it a bird? Well no, but you can tweet about it. Is it a plane? No, but it does go on AutoPilot. Is it Superman? No. But it has super powers that allow organizations to get their business-critical applications running with the highest performance. It’s Nastel’s AutoPilot M6, an application performance management solution, providing enterprises a powerful mechanism for managing the performance of complex composite applications and their transactions. And the award-winning Nastel AutoPilot On-Demand for WebSphere MQ, a solution for self-service access to visibility and diagnostics... (more)