Five Key Trends in WAN Optimization
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WAN optimization has long been a mechanism for reducing bandwidth cost and moving more data over a network faster. However, TRAC's upcoming WAN Optimization Spectrum report shows that organizations no longer see WAN optimization deployments as simply a way to better manage capacity of their traditional wide area networks. Five key findings of this state-of-the market study include: User experience is becoming the key performance indicator for evaluating WAN performance TRAC's recent survey of 332 users who implemented WAN Optimization...
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Complete Application Performance Management Is More Than Just Checking the Boxes
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On July 6th, Compuware announced that it acquired dynaTrace Software for $256 million in cash. dynaTrace provides solutions for tracing and capturing application transactions, code level application diagnostics and real-user experience monitoring (RUM). This company has particular strengths in monitoring Java applications and its products are used in both pre-production and production. Analyzing drivers behind this acquisition uncovers some of the larger trends in the APM market and brings to light new requirements for creating competitive advantages in this space. Compuware's position prior...
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Application Inspection Triggers: New Approach for Making Application Performance Data Relevant
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TRAC's article from October, 2010, "BI Becoming the Key Enabler for IT Performance Management" talked about how the complexity of managing IT performance is driving the need for new analytics and reporting capabilities for IT management solutions. These capabilities are especially important when it comes to monitoring network and application performance – a deeper and wider view of the application infrastructure is vital as companies add more complex and dynamic IT services. Many organizations that use several APM solutions at the...
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SmartBear Acquires AlertSite: The Lifecycle of Application Management with End-User Experience in Mind
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On April 4th, 2011, SmartBear Software enhanced its traditional focus on application testing and QA by acquiring AlertSite, a developer of application web performance monitoring and management tools. SmartBear's products emphasize the importance of managing the entire application lifecycle from code review to application profiling and automated testing for QA. By way of contrast, AlertSite is focused on synthetic monitoring and testing of web site performance. The product lines of both companies are complementary and together form a suite of applications...
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Demystifying The Application Performance Market Calls for... An Application
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TRAC's recent article "Application Performance Management - The Journey of a Technology Label" talked about how diluted the APM space has became and that it is getting more difficult for end-user organizations to distinguish between vendors' marketing messaging and the true value that these solutions can deliver. Sometimes, we would get vendor requests for a call to discuss their latest customer win, selection process that an end-user organization went though and a type of IT environment that they are managing. The...
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