The Hidden ROI of Cloud-Friendly Security

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Businesses of all sizes are undergoing a digital transformation, moving applications and services to the cloud in an effort to boost productivity and speed innovation. It seems like every day there’s another article about IoT, big data analytics, and cloud architectures—and their unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge […]

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Choosing the Right Model: A Guide to DDoS Protection

Until recently, security teams for organizations in many industries believed they didn’t need to worry about DDoS attacks, but the latest data from the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report indicates that businesses of all sizes in nearly every industry run the risk of being attacked.¹ IoT devices are increasingly compromised, recruited into botnets, and offered up by their creators […]

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Automating NetOps: Closing the IT Skills Gap

For many infrastructure teams, the gap between their current implementation-centric operational model and the future where they spend time building automation and integrations for others to self-implement is wide. Fortunately, their critical suppliers have a vested interest in assisting them as they cross this gap. By providing both tools and training, vendors can help their loyal customers automate their key […]

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Five Critical Steps to Prepare Your Business for new Funding, Whether IPO or Private Equity

While the paths are different, the steps to prepare a finance organization for an IPO or to seek private equity converge in many ways. They both require a historical view of data and real-time access to financial and operational data to satisfy stakeholder concerns, make good decisions, and act as a guide for sustainable business strategies. With that in mind, […]

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Best Practices for Monitoring Cloud-Based Applications and Infrastructure

Despite its overwhelmingly positive impact, the rise of cloud computing has undoubtedly created many new challenges for the development and operations of applications. But those very challenges also represent an unprecedented opportunity for enterprises to fundamentally rethink the way they develop, monitor, and maintain their IT environments. Perhaps most notable is the chance to finally address the archaic (or non-existent) […]

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Measure Twice, Cut Once

Now that you’ve made the decision to migrate, where do you start? What does success mean? How do you ensure you don’t regress in performance? There is an old adage in carpentry that you should measure a board twice before you make a cut so you can limit the need to make a second cut correcting a mistake. This same […]

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7 Requirements for Monitoring Cloud Apps and Infrastructure

Cloud computing changes everything, and application and infrastructure monitoring are hardly exceptions. The flexibility, scale, services, and pay-as-you-go pricing options provided by modern cloud platforms—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and tools like Pivotal among them—have completely changed how companies architect their applications as well as how they deploy the corresponding infrastructure. Enterprises no longer rely on […]

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Successful Cloud Migration in 3 Easy Steps

New Relic has helped many organizations modernize their software stack by giving them the visibility, insights, and confidence needed to move their applications to the cloud. Our powerful, real-time, and iterative analytics provide 360-degree visibility into on-premise and cloud-based applications, with perspectives on infrastructure, application, end-user experience (synthetic and real), and business success. To ensure a successful migration, it’s important […]

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