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The Mandate for Application Performance Engineering whitepaper

Over the past decade, IT organizations have increasingly focused on ensuring acceptable application delivery, leveraging two main disciplines: application performance management (APM) and network and application optimization (NAO). Both of these disciplines are traditionally practiced in a reactive fashion, after an application has been developed or a major change has been made to the infrastructure. Increasingly, this risks and costs of this reactive approach are becoming less tolerable.

Mobile Application Performance Engineering

We are in the midst of the mobile evolution – the ways in which we communicate with customers and employees is changing, and end users are demanding ubiquitous access to information. However, traditional approaches to application performance management are broken – they have not evolved at the speed of mobility and are unreliable at best. This white paper describes a proactive approach to mobile application performance that addresses both the challenges of ensuring end user experience and back-end server resources.

Mobile Zone

Application Performance Engineering

There is a perfect storm of paradigm shift that is deepening the crisis conditions in enterprise IT. We demand that our critical business applications continue to perform. Our customers expect equal or better performance as they ride the Mobile revolution wave. Ongoing cost reductions have driven us to look for efficiency in virtualization of computing resources and the promise of cloud computing. The result is an alarming increase in failed application deployment. Download the white paper

Application Performance Engineering, Mobile Zone

Deploying Your Application in the Cloud

Corporations worldwide are shifting technology resources and infrastructure to the Cloud. These businesses expect to realize gains in operational efficiency and scalability as a result of the Cloud’s elasticity, and they expect to reduce capital expenditures on IT infrastructure as they migrate to an operational pay-as-you-go expense and offload typical infrastructure management responsibilities (and costs) to the Cloud provider. Download the white paper

Cloud Zone

Application Performance Testing with Shunra and HP LoadRunner

The unique integration of HP LoadRunner and Shunra offers SAP customers the tools they need to deploy applications with confidence. Read the paper to learn about a best practice for performance testing distributed applications in virtual environments. Download the white paper

Satellite Network Simulation

Any application in today's mobile world faces the probability of being used over a wireless network, whether it is being accessed by corporate users with cellular handhelds or a traveling workforce using Wi-Fi hotel connections through mobile combat systems connecting to headquarters over satellite networks. Satellite networks especially introduce challenging conditions for data and voice applications. Download the white paper

Preventative Performance Testing Takes Hold

An increased focus on cost reduction is moving organizations towards a smarter way to enable successful application delivery – the  predictive approach of testing performance earlier in the application lifecycle. This approach enables organizations to mitigate the risk of application failure leading to revenue loss, and it also increases their time-to-value by not having to fix problems in production. Download the white paper

The Evolution of Federal IT Networks: Best Practices to Ensure Success

The demands of converged applications, geographically dispersed users, and OMB mandates (IPV6) have dictated technology upgrades to current Federal IT infrastructures. The complex interaction of all of these elements and their impact on network performance make it impossible to reliably predict successful delivery of services to all users. Download the white paper

Application Performance Management Report (Aberdeen Group)

This report examines best practices for managing application performance. The report findings serve as a guideline to organizations looking to improve the performance of their business critical applications. Download the white paper

Benchmark Report: Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration

This report is a roadmap for organizations interested in best-in-class technology solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration.   Download the white paper