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A new APM approach across the entire lifecycle
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Leveraging Performance Optimization for Business Advantage
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Automate Diagnostics While Increasing Test Center Throughput
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Analyst White Papers
Optimizing the Performance of Web Applications:
Directions for Improvement
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Written by Jeffrey DeBarros, Aberdeen Group (incl. customer case study)
Aberdeen surveyed 100 organizations between September and October of 2009 to identify
the best practices enterprises are using to optimize the performance of web applications.
The results revealed that deploying web applications continues to increase in complexity.
Multiple emerging technologoes including server virtualization,
cloud computing, and browser diversity challenge IT's ability to provide great web experiences.
Additionally, today's Web 2.0 architectures that assemble services and content delivered from
multiple sources make monitoring and managing performance a major challenge for organizations.
This report will help organizations overcome these challenges and optimize end to end web
application performance.
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Optimizing the Performance of Web Applications: Directions for Improvement
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Leveraging Performance Optimization for Business Advantage:
Bridging the Life-Cycle Gap Between Development, Transactions, and Production
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Written by Melinda-Carol Ballou, IDC (incl. 2 customer case studies)
One of the great challenges for IT organizations is managing the application life
cycle from development to production - using information obtained from automated
tools to pinpoint performance problems to find and resolve them throughout the software
life cycle and, most importantly, when they occur in production.
This White Paper considers the business, IT, and operations challenges of bridging
this gap to enable users to proactively find and repair performance and xtransaction
problems in distributed applications (from development to deployment).
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Bridging the Life-Cycle Gap Between Development, Transactions, and Production
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dynaTrace White Papers
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Continuous Application Performance Management |
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This whitepaper describes a new approach to application performance management (APM).
Fundamental changes in the way that software is developed (e.g. agile methodologies,
geographically distributed teams, and a growing reliance on third-party code) and
the increasing complexity of application architectures (e.g. SOA, ESBs, heterogeneous,
virtualized, and increasingly cloud-based) are rendering traditional APM approaches
increasingly obsolete. A new approach – continuous application performance management
– that can be deployed across the entire application lifecycle – from development
through test and into production – is required. This paper explores the requirements
of this new approach and describes the impact it can have not only at each individual
phase of an application’s lifecycle but also as an integrated, consistent approach
to ensuring application performance across the lifecycle.
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Continuous Application Performance Management
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Transforming the Load Test Process - How Continuous APM Automates Performance and Scalability Diagnostics While Increasing Test Center Throughput |
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This whitepaper discusses the shortcomings of traditional load testing and problem diagnostic approaches with today’s complex applications. These shortcomings lead not only to guessed fixes and multiple test iterations, but also prohibit agility, preventing performance testing from becoming properly integrated into iterative development approaches. Consequently, time of critical test and development resources is wasted with tricky bug-hunts just before software release is scheduled to occur, limiting test coverage, frequently resulting in missed release dates and poor quality.
That is an untenable position for any enterprise depending on timely delivery of high quality applications in order to maintain competitive position. Thus, an innovative, new application performance management approach – Continuous APM – is needed that exposes the application black box to deliver visibility into the dynamics of modern enterprise applications that both testers and developers need – in the first test run.
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Transforming the Load Test Process
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Continuous Application Performance for Enterprise .NET Systems
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.NET and SharePoint provide a framework and environment for rapid application development.
Coupled with this are inherent performance limitations that must be taken into consideration
– otherwise applications will suffer from severe performance problems. Consequently,
if not addressed, development finds themselves more frequently in a firefight situation
with complex application issues. It is also imperative to find and fíx performance
issues as soon as possible, as the cost of defects rise exponentially the later
they are found in the lifecycle. Finally, business stakeholders require insight
into the performance of production applications, as they become more dependent on
them. Learn how you can master these challenges with Continuous Application Performance
Management across the entire software lifecycle. dynaTrace enables efficient collaboration
among all stakeholders to proactively prevent and to quickly find and fix performance
issues in .NET applications.
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Continuous Application Performance for Enterprise .NET Systems
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On the PurePath - Go Beyond Profiling
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Tracing transactions across distributed Java/.NET application components at production-safe
overhead
Using profilers for application performance analysis relies on many assumptions
that do not hold true in most situations. The collection of simple statistical performance
values may mask systemic performance problems and often makes root cause isolation
difficult. High execution overhead and the lack of support for distributed, heterogeneous
systems additionally prohibit their use under real world conditions. dynaTrace Diagnostics®
steps in to fulfil all those requirements that profilers miss.
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On the PurePath - Go Beyond Profiling
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A New Way to Diagnose, Tune and Monitor Remoting in Distributed
Java™ Applications
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Deliver High Performance Remoting with dynaTrace Diagnostics®.
Business applications have become increasingly complex, heterogeneous and distributed
as organizations seize upon SOA, web services and other remote communication technologies
to build their IT infrastructure. With these new levels of complexity have come
a host of challenges associated with the accurate and timely monitoring, diagnosing
and tuning of distributed applications. In this paper, you will learn how dynaTrace
Diagnostics, with its revolutionary PurePath Technology®, can dramatically simplify
these processes and provide you with the visibility and context you need to ensure
distributed application performance at the highest level, from development and QA
and into 7x24 production operation.
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A New Way to Diagnose, Tune and Monitor Remoting in Distributed Java™ Applications
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