Authors: Pandit-Prasad: dbta.com

Biographical Information

Pandit Prasad

Pandit Prasad, product marketing manager at IBM, is spearheading strategic product marketing tactics and execution. He is also leading several global marketing strategy and brand level marketing programs. Prasad is also a technical expert on enterprise applications. Prior to IBM, Prasad was an IT applications architect at Candle Corporation. At Candle, he led a team of developers and analysts, designed and architected their CRM and Enterprise data warehouse / analytics implementations. Prasad started his career as an enterprise application developer and moved on to become a consultant working for PwC and other consulting companies. As a consultant, he implemented ERP and CRM applications for several fortune 500 companies.

Articles By Pandit Prasad

Application Performance Monitoring and Management – How It has Evolved and Where It is Headed

Application monitoring started off with a simple need - to help an administrator or manager of an application, monitor and manage its performance. It was narrow in scope and limited in use - to monitor a single application and provide metrics useful for managing that application only. Monitoring tools were often provided by application vendors, but the growing and complex nature of IT environments necessitated the entry of third-party monitoring tools. These were more specialized, with the ability to centrally monitor several different applications. They helped administrators gain visibility across several different applications, understand where problems occurred, and helped to quickly resolve them.

Posted 10 May 2010 / May 2010 Issue