10 Steps For Stronger Application Performance
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Unless business processes are seriously disrupted, IT generally just puts up with sluggish apps. So what if it takes a salesperson a few extra seconds to access an inventory database, right? Wrong. Subpar application performance has an impact—on employee productivity, perception of IT, and the expectations customers and partners have about your organization's overall ability to deliver. We can—and must—do better. Here's how.
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Table of Contents
- Tech Basics
- Need For Speed
- Plan ahead to accommodate growth without a performance hit
- Know where your users are
- Get visibility into your application network
- Create metrics and set reasonable goals for application performance
- Traffic Cops
- Find the bottlenecks
- Examine asymmetric options for defeating problems
- Examine symmetric options, too
- Integrate APM with other management and reporting systems
- Test application performance
- Close the loop. Repeat
About the Author
Mike Fratto is lead analyst for InformationWeek Analytics. He covers network infrastructure and network access control and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. Mike has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and previously was managing editor/labs for InformationWeek and NWC.com, a senior technology editor with Network Computing, and executive editor for Secure Enterprise. Mike speaks regularly at industry conferences, including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, and the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.
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Blue Coat
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in application delivery networking. Distributed enterprises view the network and business-enabling applications as critical to their success. Unfortunately, they are struggling to keep pace in a rapidly changing business environment which can compromise their competitiveness. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. Unlike competitive offerings, Blue Coat offers unmatched visibility into the performance and security of business applications and web traffic running across the networks of the distributed enterprise, which provides the comprehensive application and user control required to contain costs, enhance business productivity and respond quickly to changing business requirements.
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