Bernd Harzog on Google+On July 13, 2009 VMware announced the general availability of AppSpeed. Pricing is $1,250 per physical processor. VMware claims the following benefits for AppSpeed:
- Service-level reporting and proactive performance management for multi-tier applications running in virtual machines
- Visibility into how application performance depends on the different tiers of virtual and physical infrastructure.
- Discovery, monitoring, and reporting within minutes of installation/download
- Increase application performance and uptime
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues more quickly, saving hours of administrative time
- Virtualize more machines at a faster rate
For a complete analysis of AppSpeed and how it will impact the virtualization performance management market, please read “VMware AppSpeed Due to Shake up the Virtualization Performance Management Landscape”
Bernd Harzog is the Analyst at The Virtualization Practice for Performance and Capacity Management and IT as a Service (Private Cloud). Bernd is also the CEO and founder of APM Experts a company that provides strategic marketing services to vendors in the virtualization performance management, and application performance management markets. Prior to these two companies, Bernd was the CEO of RTO Software, the VP Products at Netuitive, a General Manager at Xcellenet, and Research Director for Systems Software at Gartner Group. Bernd has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago.
