Chapter 2

The Evolution of Application Management

Abstract

Application management is closely coupled to the technologies of application software and the associated networks, systems, and databases. As such, it is always constrained and at the same time driven by those technologies. It is important to understand how application management has developed and evolved in order to help the reader better understand and give context to modern application management. Although built on the innovations of the past, modern applications and the management of them have been revolutionized since the beginning of the 21st century. The complexity of the management challenge has increased tremendously as applications have become componentized, virtualized, and often ...

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