Application Performance Management

Many organizations are breaking down on the traditional IT silos to look at applications, infrastructure, and management as one organization working together to provide a real-time model of what is happening across the enterprise. Read this eBook from a recent IT executive panel to learn how industry experts are addressing these challenges.

In this white paper Quest's data protection experts offer five tips for effective backup and recovery to help you avoid the challenges that might keep you from fully protecting your virtual assets and infrastructure.

Download the white paper "Evaluating and Contracting for Cloud Financials: Best Practice Considerations." You'll find practical advice and tips to ensure your choice is both cost-effective and right for your organization.

Download this white paper to learn some of the real-life examples of problems found when load testing and what approach is required to find them.

Learn why you should keep your software subscription up to date.

IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management solutions provide leading functionality and enable new best practices for managing and ensuring the operation of critical business services.

This paper aims to discuss the various capability acquisition and it solution deployment options and provide a perspective on how to evaluate the suitability of those options, given an enterprise's situation, and to get the best outcome.

Managing a mixed platform and vendor IT environment presents many challenges. The problems escalate with the number of different tools used to manage the infrastructure. Customers are looking to reduce the number and variety of management tools they must use. One early adopter of IBM's ITCAM for Microsoft Applications shares the lessons learned from that experience and comments on the benefits of the latest version.

The internal staff at Ptak, Noel & Associates determined that their ability to deliver services was highly dependent upon their capability to operate with highly reliable and efficient IT operations. The changes described in this case study explain how Service Desk Management help them to achieve that goal.

IBM CloudBurst is a family of built-for-purpose, workload-specific cloud computing packages that provide IT executives with the capabilities required for a Dynamic Infrastructure. View this complimentary demonstration video to learn more.

AP&S International Sharpens Semiconductor Performance with SAP Business All-in-One and IBM

Learn how Symantecs SBE Solutions faired when benchmarked by PassMark Software.

This ESG white paper confirms that momentum continues to build around server virtualization. Learn about an in-depth survey of 463 senior IT professionals in both large midmarket and enterprise-class organizations in North America and resulting trends.

What You Can Do To Make Customers Happier and More Loyal

In a recent global survey of 474 business and IT decision makers, conducted by IDC on behalf of Compuware, respondents offered insights about their needs for effective operation of Internet-enabled business activities.

In this paper, addressed are three key areas of concern, and what you can do about them.

This white paper addresses best practices for web performance monitoring, and provides guidance on selecting the best approach for your business.

A Critical Look at Key Technologies to Help Ensure that Your Cloud Investments Work For and Not Against You.

Load testing is not a new concept and many of you have probably used various load testing tools prior to major releases with varying degrees of success. Yet, we still see new web applications or newly launched web sites for which performance is not meeting the demands of the customer base.

IDG Research Services recently conducted a study via the CIO Forum on LinkedIn. The results found that CIOs and IT leaders recognize the business impact of web application performance. It's all about the end user: ensuring customer satisfaction, increasing employee productivity, and lowering IT costs.

While the rise of web-enabled applications and the zero latency customers expect from them has driven many enterprises to adopt performance management solutions, they are finding that basic understanding of how their overall user populations are being served is simply not enough.

The explosion of data and consumer mobility trends put more pressure than ever on the back office systems across telecommunications companies, defense, transportation, healthcare, financial services and more. Using selected customer scenarios this webcast describes how VisiBroker, the market leading CORBA ORB, is the most cost effective, high performance solution to bring together tens of thousands of end points across distributed applications.

This white paper and accompanying webcast highlight what makes VisiBroker the best fit for mission critical needs, and how its intelligent engineering delivers high throughput and reliability for both server-centric and decentralized application architectures, and onto the cloud.

This paper examines the trends towards server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations address the challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

This white paper describes how Fluid Data storage reduces the capacity required to support VMware, maximizes system performance and efficiency, accelerates storage provisioning, simplifies resource management and streamlines disaster recovery.