You don't deliver applications in a vacuum. Applications and the infrastructure that supports them are dynamic systems that change over time. Unrelated system using the same network, servers, and storage can adversely impact application performance. With virtualization, the risk of one virtual server impacting another is quite real. Our End to End Application Performance Management (APM) Tech Center delivers best practices, emerging trends, new products and strategies to help you delivery applications effectively.
News and Analysis
VMware's Casado: Network Virtualization The Right Way
The true benefits from network virtualization will come from simplifying the network and applying it to broader use cases, rather than bickering about the finer points of vendors' SDN products, according to VMware's Martin Casado.
Behind The Scenes Building The InteropNet
Network engineers are busy preparing the network infrastructure for the multi-vendor InteropNet that will support the upcoming Interop conference. Preview the action in our video.
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Blogs

Cisco's CIO Calls For Speed And Agility At Interop
April 02, 2014 11:08 AM
Posted by Susan Fogarty
Cisco's CIO, Rebecca Jacoby, described the company's experience delivering employee IT services and how its latest announcement, OpFlex, fits into her vision.
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Can One Size Fit All in the Data Center?
March 06, 2014 02:52 PM
Posted by Doug Hazelman
In the data center, bigger doesn't always mean better, and the "one size fits all" approach may be asking for far too much in a complex and varied environment.
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Cisco ACI Solves All Your Data Center Network Problems
November 06, 2013 10:36 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
Cisco launches its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), bringing open overlay networking and SDN to the entire data center.
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ThousandEyes Peers Into Cloud Performance
October 11, 2013 03:43 PM
Posted by Ethan Banks
Startup ThousandEyes monitors the performance of cloud applications. It's got a limited range of transactions, but it can help IT identify and troubleshoot problems.
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Business Is Losing The App Usability Battle
November 08, 2012 01:16 PM
Posted by Jim Rapoza
Traditional business applications don’t fare well compared to consumer options. Is it time for companies to focus more on the user experience and less on application performance?
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Browsing Like It's 1990
October 15, 2012 11:49 AM
Posted by Jim Rapoza
Mobile computing has to rely on old tricks to keep up with websites built for screaming-fast home and office broadband.
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