EMA Radar for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: Q1 2012
sponsored by Aternity
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Widespread adoption of cloud computing is changing the structure of IT organizations and making inroads on traditional on-premise application hosting models, shaping design decisions and product investments by APM vendors. This essential resource explores crucial considerations APM vendors must keep in mind when offering cloud services.
Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012
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What’s New in VMware vSphere 5: Availability
sponsored by Dell and VMware
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In vSphere 5.0, VMware provides several features that can help you increase the availability of your applications, the infrastructure, and the management platform to achieve a highly available virtualized environment. Discover how vSphere 5.0 tackles manageability, usability, and application support in this white paper.
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012
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Reshaping IT in a Consumer Driven Era
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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Mobile applications, smartphones, tablets, public cloud services, and social networking represent a new wave of technology adoption — one that significantly blurs the lines between business and personal domains. By unifying APM, IM, and SOM technologies, a successful service assurance implementation can focus an IT staff on business services.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012
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Driving Situational Awareness: Optimizing informational visualization to facilitate decisions at the executive level
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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Learn how IT leaders can foster visibility across their organization that arms the executive community with the knowledge needed to make proactive decisions — and identify and mitigate emerging risks and issues before they negatively affect the bottom line, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012
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Ensuring Service Assurance in the New Normal
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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Access this white paper to learn about service assurance, the modern IT management solution designed to meet the requirements of a cloud-connected enterprise, whether it is leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), or a combination of the three.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012
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Application Performance Management: The End User is King
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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A key component of operating a successful IT infrastructure is application performance management (APM), for which business transaction management (BTM) plays an important role in ensuring a positive end-user experience. APM helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring, measuring, and resolution of end-user problems.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012
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The 2011 Handbook of Application and Service Delivery
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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A new generation of challenges face IT organizations: the emergence of a sophisticated mobile workforce, adoption of varying forms of virtualization and cloud computing, and shifting emphasis and growing sophistication of cyber crime. Access this handbook to learn how to ensure application delivery despite these challenges.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012
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Accelerated Networks Drive Better Business Outcomes
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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Discover how you can improve the performance of applications by 5-50 times and boost productivity with a next-generation approach that incorporates service-level assurance and managed WAN optimization.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012
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Managing Application Sprawl in the Cloud Era - Regaining visibility and control with next-generation application performance management
sponsored by New Relic
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This paper addresses how diverse teams within the organization can use next-generation application management tools to collaboratively monitor application performance and meet stringent goals for application health and availability without sacrificing the speed and advantages of agile development.
Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012
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Application Transformation to Cloud Assessment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited
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The Application Transformation to Cloud Assessment is a consultative service, directed at evaluating an application’s fit to a cloud environment. Read this white paper to learn more about how this solution can provide assessment for up to 50 of your applications and discover the many benefits you can enjoy.
Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012
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The Case for Applications Transformation: Harnessing Applications for Innovation and Agility
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited
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Discover why applications are necessary for greater business agility and innovation, how they have come to play such a critical role, and what IT needs to do to create and implement a world-class approach to leveraging applications for business benefit.
Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012
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Case Study: Florida Insurer Drives Service Availability Gains
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Read this case study to find out how Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida combined application lifecycle management (ALM) best practices with performance management software to drive improvements in the performance and availability of their business-critical services.
Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011
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Gartner Evaluates Five Performance Monitoring Vendors
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This paper evaluates application performance monitoring (APM) vendors in each of five categories of functionality: end-user experience monitoring; application runtime architecture discovery, modeling and displays; user-defined transaction profiling; component deep-dive monitoring in application context; and application performance analytics.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011
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ALM eBook
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Read this e-book to learn how to approach application lifecycle management (ALM) in order to deliver the timely, effective, modern applications that real business outcomes rely on.
Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011
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Performance testing for mobile applications Will your mobile application fail your users?
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper reviews key mobile trends and analyzes how performance testers must change their testing methodologies to ensure they are accounting for the changes caused by mobile usage.
Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011
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Optimize Vmware View VDI Deployments with F5
sponsored by F5 Networks
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Find out how you can resolve VDI networking challenges, by managing and optimizing it the same way other applications in your data center are. Learn how you can deploy VDI over the WAN and optimize the traffic to deliver a better user experience.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011
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Traffic Valuation and Prioritization with Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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Every company wants to maximize its network resources, but doing so can be tough when struggling with traffic floods, malicious users, or underperforming applications. Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager helps guarantee service levels for your important users by prioritizing key transactions and much more.
Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011
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Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager VMware vSphere 4 Performance on Cisco Unified Computing System
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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This white paper examines the performance figures obtained by the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) running on VMware vSphere 4.0, which was installed on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). It compares those figures with tests run on a previous generation of Intel Xeon processors.
Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011
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Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges, and Solutions
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager makes it easy to migrate and scale data on demand, and is also the only application delivery solution available as an easily deployed virtual appliance.
Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011
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Five Compelling Reasons to Take An Integrated Approach to Virtualizing Your Full Hardware and Software Stack
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
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This white paper explores a single-vendor solution that addresses the entire hardware and software stack, allowing organizations to successfully manage their virtualized environment and improve business agility.
Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011
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How to effectively deliver data center services
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
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These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center automation environment that meets the needs of both IT and business users.
Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011
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Six Desktop Virtualization Pain-points and How XenDesktop 5 Helps Overcome Them
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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Many IT departments see the benefits of desktop virtualization and are in the early planning stages of developing various solutions; however, there are still a range of management issues for IT. Review key pain-points that administrators deal with in regards to virtualizing desktops, and learn about ways to alleviate them.
Posted: 01 Oct 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011
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Microsoft SQL 11 “Denali”: What To Expect
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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Are you ready to upgrade to Microsoft SQL 11? Access this exclusive resource to learn how Microsoft improves on SQL Server 2008, and check out the underlying themes emphasized in the new features in Microsoft SQL 11 and how they work.
Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011
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Application Transformation Experience Workshop Brief:
sponsored by HP
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Read this white paper to learn how to make the most of your IT investments by transforming your existing applications.
Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011
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Extreme Performance, Predictable, & Econ Scale & Continuous Avail for J2EE Apps
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment.
Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011
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