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Demand growing for application performance management tools, experts say
The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management...
Microsoft to start automatic updates of IE without asking the user
Microsoft next year will change its automated update process for the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser to push out the latest version of the browser...
5 reasons to avoid agents for application performance management
Despite rapid evolution in the application performance management (APM) market, few enterprise IT organizations would say they have sufficiently...
Cloud computing presents new challenges for management software
The cloud is revolutionizing networking, and this overhaul presents enormous challenges for IT managers who are used to being able to see, monitor...
The Role of APE for an Application in Production
This is the tenth and last newsletter in a series of newsletters that has been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance...
The Relationship Between APE and APM
This is the ninth in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering (APE)....
The Relationship Between Application Performance Engineering and Network and Application Optimization
This is the eighth in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering (APE)....
The Limits to Mathematical Models
This is the seventh in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering...
The Testing Phase of Application Performance Engineering
This is the sixth in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering (APE)....
Survey says: Bad alignments hamper app management
A recently completed NetForecast/Network World survey of application performance management (APM) practices has uncovered serious gaps between the...
The Linkage Between APE, Design and Implementation
This is the fifth in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering (APE)....
The link between APE and SLAs
In our last couple of newsletters we began to discuss a seldom-mentioned IT discipline - Application Performance Engineering (APE). In this...
Where network and systems management is headed next
Depending on where they stand in the overall environment, network and systems management companies hear different concerns from their enterprise IT...
Marketing Associates takes advantage of Compuware APM tools
Marketing Associates this year implemented Compuware’s Vantage tool for end-to-end APM and Gomez, an on-demand platform for managing Web application...
What to expect of APM tools in 2011
As IT managers expect end-to-end visibility into application performance, tool vendors will focus in on several differentiators, one analyst says.
Blue Coat brings in new CEO
Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the...
China Unicom to use Android despite Google-China row
Chinese mobile carrier China Unicom will use Google’s Android operating system on phones, its top executive said Wednesday, showing interest despite...
Compuware integrates Gomez technology
Compuware announced a new subscription-based offering called Gomez adVantage that combines application performance metrics, user monitoring tools and...
M&A in the WAN optimization market
A handful of mergers, acquisitions and auctions changed the WAN optimization market in 2009. Will there be more in 2010?
10 IT management technology start-ups to watch
IT management software and appliance vendors used the downturn to show how they could help companies reduce manual labor, cut costs, streamline...