Archive | December, 2008
Microsoft Visual RoundTrip Analyzer (VRTA)
In a prior post, I mentioned a new tool – Microsoft’s Visual Round Trip Analyzer ( VRTA). The Microsoft Global Performance team has developed this innovative tool for visualizing application performance. Check it out at VRTA. I have tested it out with a few customer transaction traces and am quite pleased with the concise way it [...]
Continue reading...Slow website – What can you do?
16. December 2008
For years, Shunra has been a mainstay for companies wanting to understand how their websites will perform around the world. Our suite of products offer companies many ways to understand what is happening, what will happen, and why. A common question we hear a lot is, “Now that I know there will be a problem, [...]
Continue reading...Latency and Web Performance
16. December 2008
The performance of web pages is an important topic for many IT managers. Speed, security, appearance, and reliability are common metrics for measuring performance. What is a mystery to many is what affects those metrics. The article, Web Performance Matters, Slowness Considered Harmful does a good job explaining key network influences on websites, common misconceptions [...]
Continue reading...Web 2.0 impact on Managing Enterprise Applications
4. December 2008
Application development and delivery faces many new challenges for performance testing in a world of Web Services and Web 2.0 technologies such as mash ups. For successful APM, IT executives now need to manage a bigger picture in terms of defined through practices such as ITIL and COBIT. I was reading an article about how a single user, on [...]
Continue reading...User Experience with Enterprise Web Applications
2. December 2008
I recently read a very interesting white paper that I found on CIO.com titled “Providing Around-the-Clock Customer Satisfaction.” It focused on how critical APM was to any business where online customer experience can have immediate revenue implications. There are some interesting statistics in the paper noted from a survey done by IDG Research Services on [...]
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18. December 2008