The document discusses IBM SmartCloud Application Performance and Monitoring. It introduces RTView, a solution for application monitoring in the cloud. RTView integrates data from various tools to provide customizable summary views and alerts. It can monitor applications deployed on IBM SmartCloud Application Services and help support teams determine business impact from events.
Sources:20M apps installed daily on facebook$ 17.5B mobile app industry50B mobile app downloads est in 2012 + 500K US jobs in last 3 years $15B value of facebook apps ecosystem1. + 500K jobs WHERE THE JOBS ARE: Research by Dr. Michael Mandelhttp://www.technet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/TechNet-App-Economy-Jobs-Study.pdfSouth Mountain Economics, LLCFebruary 7, 2012Graph: Help-wanted ads for computer and mathematical occupations that contain the word ‘app’; 12-month moving averageData: The Conference Board15B ecosystem around facebook apps. 20M apps installed daily on facebook The Facebook App Economy, Sept 19 , 2011http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/digits/pdfs_docs/research/2011/AppEconomyImpact091911.pdfDigits center for digital innovation , technology and strategy , University of Maryland3. Opportunities in the App Economy - The New Paradigm for Winning by MediaAgility, Version 1.0http://www.mediaagility.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/eBook-Apps-Economy-v1.0.pdfTalking about the smartphone industry, a research commissioned by Getjar , has projected that the global mobile phone app industry would reach to a humongous $17.5 billion by 2012, which is by far more than that of worldwide CD sales, which it predicted would stand at $13.83 billion for that year. In terms of number of downloads, the research document reckoned that the mobile apps download would zoom up to 50 billion in 2012 from 7 billion in 2009. Besides, another research done by the analyst firm Yankee (5)Group pointed out that the mobile apps business in the US alone would stand at $1.6 billion in 2010, and it would rise to some $11 billion in 2014. .