Are Enterprises Ready for the Performance Challenges of Big Data and Cloud?

Explore Application Performance Blog (May 15 2012) Application Performance

Big Data applications suffer from many of the performance challenges and bottlenecks that plague current distributed applications, though the volume of performance data can be much larger, making troubleshooting all the more challenging. To facilitate speed and real-time results, a new approach to application performance management (APM) is required to support massively scalable architectures and dynamic, elastic resource allocation...

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Comment Mentions:   APM   Big Data   Hadoop

Synthetic and Real-User Monitoring: The Best Approach

Explore Application Performance Blog (Feb 20 2012) Application Performance

When we speak with customers, we’re often asked questions about the pros and cons of monitoring of real users vs. synthetic transactions and whether one approach should be used over the other. The truth is both approaches are relevant and they complement each other. However, there has been some chatter about synthetic monitoring no longer being relevant or needed. We disagree...

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Comment Mentions:   APM

All Websites Are Vulnerable To Crashing

Explore Application Performance Blog (Oct 28 2011) Editor's Spotlight

All websites are vulnerable to crashing. You need to look no further than several recent instances in which major company websites have crashed because of high traffic peaks. Target’s website crashed several times as the result of its exclusive, limited-time offering of its Missoni for Target collection... (Read Full Article)

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The Application Performance Impact

Explore Application Performance Blog (Aug 18 2011)

The application is what the user sees, not what the developer creates. There is an entire chain of events that occurs between the application behind your firewall and the browser (what the customer sees), called the application delivery chain. While it is important to understand the dependencies along the entire chain, you need to understand how your choice of hosts and services impacts the user. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Application Performance Management   Outage

Video: Defining the New Application Performance Management Market Space

Explore Application Performance Blog (Jul 25 2011)

I recently spoke with Steve Tack, Compuware’s CTO, about the upcoming merge of dynaTrace and Gomez APM in the application performance management market space. This 6 minute video covers 3 questions: 1) What’s driving the need for a next generation approach to APM within the application performance management marketspace? 2) What value does the dynaTrace acquisition by Compuware offer current and future Gomez APM customers? 3) How is the combination of dynaTrace and Gomez unique in the application performance management marketspace? (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Compuware   Application Performance Management