Tech Center: End to End Application Performance Management

Upcoming Events

In most data centers, DCIM rests on a shaky foundation of manual record keeping and scattered documentation. OpManager replaces data center documentation with a single repository for data, QRCodes for asset tracking, accurate 3D mapping of asset locations, and a configuration management database (CMDB). In this webcast, sponsored by ManageEngine, you will see how a real-world datacenter mapping stored in racktables gets imported into OpManager, which then provides a 3D visualization of where assets actually are. You'll also see how the QR Code generator helps you make the link between real assets and the monitoring world, and how the layered CMDB provides a single point of view for all your configuration data.

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A Network Computing Webinar:
SDN First Steps

Thursday, August 8, 2013
11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

This webinar will help attendees understand the overall concept of SDN and its benefits, describe the different conceptual approaches to SDN, and examine the various technologies, both proprietary and open source, that are emerging. It will also help users decide whether SDN makes sense in their environment, and outline the first steps IT can take for testing SDN technologies.

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End to End Application Performance ManagementTech Center

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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Tags: Cisco, Rebecca Jacoby, Interop, OpFlex

Channel: End to End APM, Next Gen Network, Interop

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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Tags: data center, management, virtualization, application, single pane of glass, one size fits all

Channel: Data Center, End to End APM, Servers & Storage, Private Cloud

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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Tags: Cisco, Insieme, ACI, data center network, overlay network, software-defined networks, SDN

Channel: Data Center, End to End APM, Next Gen Network, Virtualization,

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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Tags: network performance, SaaS, DNS, HTTP, troubleshooting

Channel: Cloud Computing, Data Center, End to End APM, Networking & Mgmt, Public Cloud,

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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Tags: applications, smartphones, tablets, mobility, BYOD, social networks, enterprise social networks, performance

Channel: End to End APM, Networking & Mgmt

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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Tags: Mobile, Internet, Akamai, browsing, Web site optimization

Channel: Cloud Computing, Content Management, End to End APM, Networking & Mgmt, Wireless, Public Cloud

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End To End APM Reports

Optimizing Application Performance In Virtualized Environments

Virtualization can hide performance issues from traditional tools. We provide guidelines to help you understand the hurdles that virtualization puts in front of APM, and how to get over them.

APM: How to Calculate Your Costs

Application performance management products are essential for monitoring and troubleshooting critical apps. They're also very expensive. This report guides you through a TCO exercise to help you calculate the capital and operational expenses of an APM product set, including pre-deployment steps and consulting and IT costs.

Bringing APM to the Cloud

Moving applications to the cloud renders most APM tools useless. We look at how APM products are evolving to meet cloud challenges, and steps IT must take to adapt APM tools and metrics to public cloud environments.

APM Deployment Options

IT has many choices to make when deploying application performance management (APM) tools. This report drills into APM architectures and provides guidance for optimal deployment. We also examine results from our 2010 APM deployment survey.

Perception Is Reality: Why IT Must Own Application Performance

Proactive is the name of the game in today's ultra-competitive environment. And if you're banking on moving to the cloud or heavy virtualization, make sure you don't go too far down these roads without having an application performance monitoring (APM) plan in place. Otherwise, even the most basic problem may cause hours of downtime and a level of user frustration that no one wants to deal with.Yet, deal with frustration we are-it's disturbing that 25% of the 320 business technology professionals who responded to our InformationWeek Analytics APM survey say they experience application performance problems on a daily or weekly basis. An additional 28% say issues crop up monthly.