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Oct 09

The Top Five Trends We Observed at Strata Data Conference 2019

The Pepperdata team had a fantastic time at this year’s Strata Data Conference in New York City. All of us are still buzzing from all the discussion of cutting-edge data strategies, techniques, and technologies. Here are the top five trends that kept coming up: 1. Big Data Applications are the... read more →

October 9, 2019
Pepperdata Team
Blog, Events, Industry

Sep 03

How Pepperdata Optimized Hadoop and Helped a Leading Online Travel Agency Save Millions

One of the world’s largest Online Travel Agencies (OTA) uses Pepperdata application and infrastructure performance management solutions to continuously optimize their Hadoop-based distributed computing environment. With more than 650 nodes, the customer’s installation ranks as one of the larger Hadoop clusters in existence. Our customer relies on this big data... read more →

Aug 20

Why MTTR Matters and How Big Data APM Can Help

In the world of big data IT, performance is everything. User satisfaction with IT infrastructure is determined by application availability and response times. But in that same world, failure is inevitable, even within the most robust IT infrastructure. And each instance of downtime or failure to meet availability and/or performance... read more →

August 20, 2019
John Armstrong
Blog, Industry, Products

Jul 16

Why Financial Services Needs Big Data APM

Why Financial Services Needs Big Data APM Financial Services organizations operate in a challenging environment. As one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world, they are a constant target of hackers and fraudsters. At the same time, their applications and services are essential components of the global economy.... read more →

July 16, 2019
John Armstrong
Blog, Industry, Products, Uncategorized, Use Cases

Jul 10

How Pepperdata Big Data APM Delivers ROI by Controlling Cloud Costs

For most big data enterprises, application performance management (APM) is considered an essential element of application-centric IT operations and a DevOps-enabling bridge between production and development on one side, and IT and digital business on the other. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an... read more →

Jun 12

AI – Separating Hype from Reality

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. Most AI examples that you hear about today – from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars – rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing. Using these technologies, computers can... read more →

Jun 04

Now That You’re in the Cloud: How to Manage Costs?

Remember the early days of moving to the cloud? It seemed like there was nothing the cloud couldn’t do — and for less money than dedicated on-prem servers. A lot has changed in just a few years. In the early days of cloud adoption, it was normal for businesses to... read more →

May 28

How AI Helps ITOps Keep Pace with Cloud Adoption

ITOps (IT Operations) was never easy. Many environments grew organically, with new equipment added over the years. Most enterprises have infrastructure from multiple vendors, each of whom requires companies to update to the latest releases and patches. These factors have made ITOps ever more complex. And the trend to a... read more →

May 21

Five Mistakes to Avoid When Using Spark

Apache Spark is playing a critical role in the adoption and evolution of Big Data technologies because it provides sophisticated ways for enterprises to leverage Big Data compared to Hadoop. The increasing amounts of data being analyzed and processed through the framework is massive and continues to push the boundaries... read more →

May 14

Key APM Functions and Metrics – A Primer

For those of us who are APM industry “insiders”, there’s not a lot of mystery when it comes to understanding the functionality and value of application performance management. We tend to take for granted that everyone else shares the same knowledge, but that’s not a wise assumption to make. So... read more →