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2013 Application Performance Management Spectrum

Application Performance Management (APM) is not a single class of technology, but the wider concept of monitoring the delivery of applications to end-users. This concept consists of multiple underlying technologies and nine sub-markets that cover unique buyers' requirements. APM has become one of the key IT management initiatives - the importance of having full visibility and control into application performance is impacting nearly all major IT and business goals. Currently, more than 50 technology vendors are providing nearly 200 products that...
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30 Angles for Analyzing Application Performance Management Markets

Back in 2012, my team and I had hundreds of conversations with user organizations to obtain their thoughts in regard to improving research and analyst coverage of IT management markets. Their feedback can be summarized in 4 key areas: • Situational analysis. These organizations are looking to get more insight into what IT management technologies mean for different job roles, use cases, company types, etc. • Start with the business problem, not the technology class. Organizations are requesting more power to view the...
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Web Performance Optimization Solutions Shift Into High Gear

In my first four months here at TRAC Research I’ve had some really terrific conversations with end-users, service providers, and solution vendors in the Web Performance arena. While we are just kicking off our efforts on formal research publications in the space for this year, I wanted to summarize some of the key trends we’re seeing and how they will impact the market in 2013 and beyond. Dynamic Web Sites and Applications Have Become Standard In a recent TRAC survey 69% of organizations...
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Five Key Trends in WAN Optimization

WAN optimization has long been a mechanism for reducing bandwidth cost and moving more data over a network faster. However, TRAC's upcoming WAN Optimization Spectrum report shows that organizations no longer see WAN optimization deployments as simply a way to better manage capacity of their traditional wide area networks. Five key findings of this state-of-the market study include: User experience is becoming the key performance indicator for evaluating WAN performance TRAC's recent survey of 332 users who implemented WAN Optimization...
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Complete Application Performance Management Is More Than Just Checking the Boxes

On July 6th, Compuware announced that it acquired dynaTrace Software for $256 million in cash. dynaTrace provides solutions for tracing and capturing application transactions, code level application diagnostics and real-user experience monitoring (RUM). This company has particular strengths in monitoring Java applications and its products are used in both pre-production and production. Analyzing drivers behind this acquisition uncovers some of the larger trends in the APM market and brings to light new requirements for creating competitive advantages in this space. Compuware's position prior...
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Application Inspection Triggers: New Approach for Making Application Performance Data Relevant

TRAC's article from October, 2010, "BI Becoming the Key Enabler for IT Performance Management" talked about how the complexity of managing IT performance is driving the need for new analytics and reporting capabilities for IT management solutions. These capabilities are especially important when it comes to monitoring network and application performance – a deeper and wider view of the application infrastructure is vital as companies add more complex and dynamic IT services. Many organizations that use several APM solutions at the...
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Current Research

TRAC Network Monitoring Market Insight Instrument

This research instrument is designed to gather insights from end-user organizations around Network Performance Monitoring in areas such as business impact of network performance, top challenges, performance indicators, capabilities deployed, or planned to be deployed, key use cases. Key technology areas covered in this instrument: Network Management Systems, Network-Based APM, Network Monitoring Switches, Packet Flow Monitoring, Packet Capture, Network Emulation. Who should participate: IT and Web operations, CIO/VP of IT, Service Delivery Manager, Network Manager, Network Architect, WAN Manager, Business management, Line of...
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Large File Optimization For AEC Industries

Today’s Architectural, Engineering, and Construction distributed workforce is only as good as its ability to collaborate and share critical information without boundaries. Large AutoDesk, Bentley Microstation, and Nemetschek projects inevitably are subject to bandwidth constraints, collaboration and data integrity challenges, that...
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