Application Performance Management (APM) in the Digital Enterprise

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. About the Authors
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction
8. Chapter 1. Overview
   1. Introduction
   2. Chapter 2—Evolution of Application Management
   3. Chapter 3—Managing Traditional Applications
   4. Chapter 4—Managing Applications in the Cloud
   5. Chapter 5—Managing Virtualized Systems
   6. Chapter 6—Managing Mobile Computing
   7. Chapter 7—Managing Web-Based Applications
   8. Chapter 8—Application Management Security
   9. Chapter 9—Distributed, Tiered, and Componentized Application Architectures
   10. Chapter 10—Devops and Continuous Delivery
   11. Chapter 11—Managing Application Programming Interfaces and Connected Systems
   12. Chapter 12—Application Performance Management and User Experience Management
   13. Chapter 13—Managing Containerized Applications
   14. Chapter 14—Application Management in the Software-Defined Data Center
   15. Chapter 15—Application Management in the Internet of Things
   16. Chapter 16—The Case for Standards
   17. Chapter 17—Looking Ahead
   18. Appendices
   19. Summary
9. Chapter 2. The Evolution of Application Management
   1. Historical Perspective
   2. Definition
   3. The Early Days
   4. The 1960s
   5. The 1970s
   6. The 1980s
   7. The 1990s
   8. The 21st Century: The First Decade
   9. The Teens (2010—Present)
   10. Summary
10. Chapter 3. Management of Traditional Applications
    1. Looking Back
    2. The Management Imperative
    3. Responsibilities
    4. Knowing
    5. Controlling
    6. Functional Perspective
    7. Summary
    8. Key Takeaways
11. Chapter 4. Application Management in the Cloud
    1. Public Cloud
    2. Private Cloud
    3. Hybrid Cloud
    4. Management of Cloud Applications
    5. Summary
12. Chapter 5. Application Management in Virtualized Systems
    1. Introduction to Virtualization
    2. Why Virtualize?
    3. Server Virtualization
    4. Application Virtualization
    5. Virtual Appliances
    6. Virtual Desktop Interface
    7. Network Virtualization
    8. Storage Virtualization
    9. Service Virtualization
    10. Virtual Integration
    11. Virtual Machine Migration
    12. Workload Balancing
    13. Scaling Using Virtual Systems
    14. Image Checkpoint and Rollback
    15. Challenges of Managing a Virtual Environment
    16. Summary
    17. Key Takeaways
13. Chapter 6. Management of Mobile Applications
    1. Mobile Applications
    2. Basic Management Objectives
    3. Local Applications
    4. Remote Data
    5. Remote Functionality
    6. Applications on Laptops
    7. Tablets, Smartphones, and BYOD
    8. Security in BYOD
    9. Summary
    10. Key Takeaways
14. Chapter 7. Managing Web-Based Applications
    1. Introduction to Web-Based Applications
    2. Why Web-Based Applications?
    3. Managing Web-Based Applications
    4. Challenges of Managing Web-Based Applications
    5. Summary
    6. Key Takeaways
15. Chapter 8. Application Management Security
    1. Application Development
    2. Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors
    3. Insecure Interaction Between Components
    4. Risky Resource Management
    5. Porous Defenses
    6. Securing Applications in Production
    7. Summary
    8. Key Takeaways
16. Chapter 9. Distributed and Componentized Applications
    1. Introduction
    2. Application Diversity
    3. The Evolution of Application Complexity
    4. Heterogeneity, Scale, and Integrations: The “Loose Cannons” of Application Performance
    5. APM for Complex Applications, in a Nutshell
    6. “Real World” APM
    7. The Role of Analytics
    8. Summary
    9. Key Takeaways
17. Chapter 10. Devops and Continuous Delivery
    1. Introduction
    2. Agile Development
    3. Devops: “It Takes a Village”
    4. Continuous Delivery
    5. Devops and Continuous Delivery
    6. Summary
    7. Key Takeaways
18. Chapter 11. Application Programming Interfaces and Connected Systems
    1. Introduction
    2. The Role of Tools in the API Economy
    3. The Role of the Application Programming Interface Gateway
    4. Application Programming Interface Consumer Usage in the Enterprise
    5. Application Programming Interface Provider Usage in the Enterprise
    6. Summary
    7. Key Takeaways
19. Chapter 12. Application Performance Management and User Experience Management
    1. Introduction
    2. Application Performance Management: MultiDimensional Visibility to Application Execution
    3. Analytics
    4. Application Performance Management and User Experience Management, Compared and Contrasted
    5. On-Premises and Software as a Service–Based Application Performance Management Solution
    6. The Application Performance Management Ecosystem
    7. Instrumentation and Data Sources Supporting Application Performance Management
    8. Taxonomy of Product Categories Supporting Application Performance Management
    9. User Experience Management
    10. Summary
    11. Key Takeaways
20. Chapter 13. Managing Containerized Applications
    1. Introduction
    2. Why Containerize?
    3. The Revitalization of Containers
    4. Benefits of Managing Containerized Applications
    5. Summary
    6. Key Takeaways
21. Chapter 14. Application Management in a Software-Defined Data Center
    1. Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center
    2. Fundamental Resources of the SDDC
    3. Compute (Physical and Virtual)
    4. Software-Defined Storage
    5. Software-Defined Networking
    6. Security
    7. Why Move to an SDDC?
    8. Managing SDDCs
    9. Implement Centralized, Policy-Driven, and Application-Centric Management Style
    10. Create Blended Teams With Cross-Domain Expertise
    11. Orchestrate a Hands-On Approach
    12. Cultivate Policy-Driven Infrastructure Provisioning and Management Process
    13. Increase Capacity Management Focus
    14. Use a Multivirtualization and Multicloud Management Approach
    15. Create and Package Repeatable Software and Infrastructure Configuration
    16. Take Advantage of IT Vendor Support
    17. Challenges of Managing an SDDC
    18. IT Silos
    19. Business Pressure
    20. Performance Visibility and Operations
    21. Software Licensing
    22. Summary
    23. Key Takeaways
22. Chapter 15. Application Management in the Internet of Things
    1. Instrumentation
    2. Implementation
    3. Management
    4. Configuration
    5. Security
    6. Fault
    7. Performance
    8. Accounting
    9. Summary
    10. Key Takeaways
23. Chapter 16. The Case for Standards
    1. Introduction
    2. Managing With Internet Engineering Task Force Standards
    3. Managing With the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Standards
    4. Managing With the Tivoli Systems Application Management Specification
    5. Managing With Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. Standards
    6. Managing With ASL-BiSL Foundation Standards
    7. Managing With ISO/IEC Standards
    8. Summary
    9. Key Takeaways
24. Chapter 17. Looking Ahead
    1. Introduction
    2. Cloud Computing Innovations
    3. The Changing Face of Applications
    4. Software-Defined Everything
    5. Advanced Predictive Analytics for Performance Management
    6. Dynamic Policy Rules
    7. Autonomics and Cognitive Computing
    8. Heightened Security Needs
    9. Normalizing Devops
    10. Cloud Management Standards
    11. Changing of the Guard
    12. Other Possible Innovations
    13. Back to the Future With Acme
    14. Summary
25. Appendix A. Service-Level Management
26. Appendix B. The Configuration Management Database and Configuration Management System
27. Appendix C. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
28. Index