Forrester Research recently published a report on the application performance management (APM) market, titled “Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011.” Led by Principal Analyst and Forrester Vice President Jean-Pierre Garbani, the research proposes an APM reference model that customers can use to plan their APM strategies. The report goes on to evaluate 26 APM vendors, including ExtraHop Networks, in the context of the Forrester APM reference model.

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Virtualization and cloud computing are taking enterprise IT by storm. Every customer that we work with is either expanding their virtualization practice or looking to see how they can take advantage of the public cloud. Even so, we know many owners of business-critical applications are prudently cautious about migrating from physical to virtual infrastructure or adopting public cloud computing. 

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When trying to determine the value of application performance management (APM) tools within your IT department, often the first step is to consult both the application and network teams. They deal with application and network traffic day in and day out and in many organizations are the first to jump up in support of an APM solution. However, don’t overlook the storage team, an important stakeholder and potentially strong supporter of APM. Storage teams may not be the easy targets or the ones who use these tools every day, but there are several important scenarios where they will be sorely remiss without an APM solution in place that can monitor the storage tier:

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Performance management in virtualized environments is the topic of Gartner analyst Cameron Haight‘s post, Server Virtualization Performance. Haight notes that during a Gartner client gathering, he conducted an informal poll to see what part of the virtual server infrastructure caused clients the most performance problems. While individual VMs came out on top at 42%, Haight found that the underlying issue was very likely an application problem.

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Computerworld UK reporter Leo King recently highlighted a global survey by PAC Consulting that found that 43 percent of SAP customers are dissatisfied with the system’s response times across all components. What’s more, 96 percent of respondents said they feared financial risk if their SAP system experienced performance problems.

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