Proactive End-User Experience Monitoring of Enterprise IT Services
[ Source: Hypersoft Information Systems ]
June 2010-
An introductory-level presentation with speaker notes focusing on the challenges of IT services user experience monitoring and analysis with proactive alignment to business goals. Its main parts consist of user experience definitions, the differences between user and system measurements of service quality, common metering techniques used by the companies at present time and their high and low points, real-world metering examples, as well as dwelling into strategic analysis pitfalls and opportunities. The paper offers the ...
Cisco: How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
In order for application delivery to work, the applications and the network have to work in concert. Cisco Systems’ Mark Leary discusses how striking the right balance between availability, performance, security, capital costs, and operating costs in all three areas -- the network, in the data center, and the end user – is a major challenge for today’s IT organizations. According to Leary, in application delivery, knowledge is everything: recognizing the warning signs of trouble; ...
The Future Of App Delivery
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery to network and application optimization. However, ensuring successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves planning, management, and control that extends to a wide range of IT disciplines, not just networks. As Akamai’s Neil Cohen illustrates, using the flexibility and accessibility of cloud computing puts mission-critical applications only one hop away from 90 percent ...
What SOA And Web 2.0 Mean To The Network
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
In the past couple of years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services have been overhyped. Currently, Web 2.0 is beginning to suffer the same fate. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. Both of these architectures are only in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications built using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists at this ...
Cost-Effective Application Delivery: Today And In The Future
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
In recessionary times, balancing increasing application infrastructure needs against the opposing demand for cost reduction presents IT departments with a significant challenge. In this session, hosted by Radware’s Nir Ilani, you’ll learn how to reduce CAPEX and OPEX associated with data center initiatives (consolidation, virtualization, SOA, business continuity, etc.) via a “scale-as-you-grow” approach to application delivery.
The State of Infrastructure: Remote Management Gains Traction
[ Source: Transformation Enablers ]
January 2009-
The State of Infrastructure: Remote Management Gains Traction, an exclusive research study conducted by TechWeb, reveals that the market for remote infrastructure management (RIM) services is growing - especially in these tight economic times - as more companies turn to the remote delivery of services (often from lower cost sites globally) to increase businesses efficiencies and effectiveness, and to control costs without hurting performance or increasing full-time staff. Common services provided include mainframe, network (voice ...
State of Business Process Outsourcing
[ Source: Transformation Enablers ]
July 2008-
Saving Costs and Adding Value: Companies increasingly are considering how business process outsourcing can help them not only decrease costs, but also increase profits and help them transform their business.