Performance Management

Performance Management covers monitoring the physical infrastructure, the virtual infrastructure and applications for end-to-end performance and service levels.

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – Managing Applications Performance

January 15, 2013
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PerformanceManagement

Virtualizing business critical applications and performance critical applications requires the use of modern virtualization aware and cloud aware APM tools that can easily adapt to large number of diverse and rapidly changing applications.

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – Operations Management and Infrastructure Performance Management

January 9, 2013
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PerformanceManagement

Virtualizing business critical applications requires an operations management solution that is designed from the group up for a dynamic and shared data center. Virtualizing performance critical applications requires an infrastructure performance management solution that can monitor the end-to-end latency of the infrastructure in real time or near real time. As enterprises virtualize more than low…

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2013 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Predictions

December 31, 2012
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CloudComputing

Herewith we offer our 2013 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Predictions. May we also wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and a prosperous 2013.

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Is Amazon Ruining Public Cloud Computing?

December 28, 2012
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CloudComputing

The Christmas Eve Amazon outage that resulted in Netflix being unavailable for 36 hours results from an unacceptable attitude on the part of Amazon towards reliability and performance. Unless Amazon steps up to the plate with a meaningful SLA, Amazon risks damaging its own growth, and the entire concept of public cloud computing.

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Big Data Operations Management

December 21, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

If you are running business critical or performance critical applications in shared (virtualized or in a public cloud) environment then you might need big data operations management. If your environment is large enough to make monitoring into a big data problem, then choosing a product from a vendor like CloudPhysics, Reflex Systems, Splunk or Xangati…

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – The Performance and Capacity Sizing Problem

December 17, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

The process of virtualizing business critical applications should start with using a modern APM tool to establish a response time and throughput baseline for the application while it is still on physical hardware. That baseline should then serve as the reference SLA once the application is virtualized. Performance needs to be defined as response time…

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Will Cisco Buy Citrix in Reaction to VMware’s SDDC Strategy?

December 10, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

If Cisco were to acquire Citrix, it would immediately boost Cisco's business via the integration of Netscaler into Cisco's product line. It would further significantly strengthen Cisco's hand in positioning vs VMware SDDC strategy. It would also pretty much cement the position of VMware and Cisco as two competing vendors of Software Defined Data Centers.

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The Third Generation of APM

December 3, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

Legacy first and second generation APM tools have failed to keep up with customer requirements. These tools need to be replaced with modern third generation APM tools that have been modernized for today's development and deployment paradigms. These tools are also a critical part of the process of virtualizing business critical applications.

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