Application management (app performance) for data centers

Akamai's Web Application Accelerator takes a unique approach to solving the Web application delivery challenge by filling the gap between the data-center and end-users while requiring no additional hardware by the customer. Application Delivery Controllers serve an important role in improving the delivery of Web...

capital expenditures for your virtualized data center. With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, hear from Laura DiDio, Principal at...

manage infrastructure fault, performance and capacity issues within hybrid environments combining both physical and virtual environments.

With the addition of CA Virtual Performance Management to CA Spectrum® Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth® Performance Manager, IT organizations can use proven management tools for both their...

design considerations and recommendations for data center LANs. Today's IT organizations are need a data center LAN design that meets the growing performance demands of users and network-centric applications from a variety of locations. It must also economically scale and flexibly accommodate new computing trends and IT initiatives without an entire...

Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage...

costs and reduces the amount of maintenance and management required of more hardware-intensive WAN solutions. Corporate networks are in a new phase of change today. Innovative network and bandwidth-intensive applications, such as disk mirroring and disaster recovery, have become essential parts of Wide Area Network (WAN) architectures. In the race to build new networks...

environment across SAN fabrics and even across data centers on a single pane of glass. By preventing application disruptions and optimizing infrastructure, VirtualWisdom helps improve enterprise revenue top line, reduce or defer capital spending as well as increase operational efficiency of storage and IT administrators. It provides necessary capabilities to...

Free Forrester Consulting study - "Application Delivery Takes Center Stage" -- helps you cut costs, improve performance and increase security for your app delivery. Whether you're using SAP, Oracle, SharePoint or home-grown apps, this study will help you make delivery of all of your apps WAY better! Compliments of Citrix Systems. Complimentary Forrester...

to ensure the availability, security and performance for VDI. What benefits can you realistically expect from these solutions, and how do you deploy them?

This live 60-minute webcast will reveal the answers to these questions and more. Learn from virtualization expert Brian Madden and Cisco Application Delivery Networking expert Liad Ofek. Understand how these...

years, or however long it takes for their new data centers to be designed, approved, constructed and eventually brought on line. Without the capacity to readily deploy new applications, a key ingredient for remaining competitive, the impact to these businesses could be devastating.

One remedy is for IT to find ways to reduce the number of required servers without...

center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted interfaces.

You will learn about network virtualization and the...

some of the challenges and best practices with application performance management and its impact on the network. It's no secret that the network has become the foundational platform for managing applications performance, troubleshooting, access control and more. A recent SearchNetworking.com survey of over 1,200 companies shows just how focused networking managers...

help reduce energy consumption in power-hungry data centers.

This whitepaper discusses the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment using Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays...

less, because you don't need to need to pay for all the people, products, and facilities to run them. And, it turns out they're more scalable, more secure, and more reliable than most apps. Plus, upgrades are taken care of for you, so your apps get security and performance enhancements and new features-automatically.

The way you pay for cloud-...

of new applications, simplify server management and improve disaster recovery.

The Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) is a perfect complement to the VMware environment because virtualized storage offers significant and complimentary benefits to virtualized applications. By creating a pool of virtual storage volumes, the Compellent...

Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle maximizes PeopleSoft's performance by focusing on the factors responsible for database inefficiencies such as SQL statements, indexes and database changes. Learn what using Quest SQL Optimizer and Quest's methodology for optimal performance can do for your PeopleSoft applications. PeopleSoft...

the business.

The move to next-generation data centers entails a fundamental shift in perspective. For your enterprise to succeed in this new era, it must have an agile technology foundation that can speed business innovation and allow your company to move quickly to capitalize on market opportunities. HP Data Center Transformation solutions are designed to...

based 2-socket 1U server is ideal for corporate data centers and remote sites that require a dense, highly available single - or dual-processor server at an excellent value. Designed for versatility and high performance, it provides many of the virtualization, system management, and energy-efficiency features you need now and the scalability necessary to change as your...

that consolidates Web, Gateway, Application, and Database tiers on a single Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server, reducing the number of physical machines needed to effectively deploy applications. Founded on a service-oriented architecture, Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 8 software allows businesses to build scalable...

sharing has caused a rapid growth in data centers. IT managers are now struggling with the task of managing many small servers that have been added on over the years.

Sun's new family of servers is ideal for:

• Grid Computing
• Database management
• Web Infrastructure
• And Consolidation and Virtualization

FalconStor's data deduplication solutions address the problem of duplicate data from backups. It slashes media costs, streamlines management tasks, and minimizes the bandwidth required for replication. Data deduplication improves efficiency and saves money, exactly what is needed when IT budgets are tight. Backup is...

how you can deliver the necessary I/O throughput for HPC applications. It will also cover Sun's offerings for addressing HPC challenges in the form of flash technology, network attached storage, parallel storage, and archive solutions. This paper provides an overview of the current trends and challenges in delivering the necessary I/O throughput for high...

infrastructures be considered together as a "application infrastructure" that supports strategic business objectives. This paper examines the challenges associated with SAP application delivery Mission-critical Web apps are at the heart of your business, any delay or disruption results in lost productivity and profitability. But delivering fast...

the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new...

to improve/provide common tools and services for disparate storage platforms such as...

• Centralized Management
• Pooling
• Capacity trapped in allocation
• Money wasted overbuying
• Provisioning
• Capacity trapped in over allocations to avoid disruptions
• Disruption to operations/applications adding storage
• Consolidation
• Migrating to fewer larger systems

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