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ApplicationPerformanceManagement BestPractices
The foundation for any good application performance management strategy isan understanding of the current environment. With network and applicationusage increasing, IT organizations face serious challenges in meeting corporateand business unit demands. Read this expert E-Guide—a series of previouslypublished Expert Tips from SearchNetworking.com—and see how organizationsare keeping application traffic moving smoothly and efficiently, while introducingnew applications seamlessly into the mix.
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Application performance management
If you are asking yourself about application performance management, three common dynamics are probably atplay within your organization.1. You are deploying a new application and wish to understand the impact of the application on the network(such as SAP or ECRM applications) and the changes required on the network to support the new applica-tion.2. You are deploying real-time convergent applications (such as voice and video over IP) and need to managethe performance of the applications.3. The applications that are currently deployed on your network are performing poorly.Each of these dynamics can create a situation in which robust application performance is the key criterion for theoverall business. Today's applications are what drive today's businesses. The ability to manage the IT infrastructureto deliver quality application performance, introduce applications, and resolve application performance problems isa focus that is most often overlooked.Convergent applications and applications such as SAP are delay sensitive and perform terribly in networks thatexhibit high latency, packet loss and jitter. For this reason, you must have a good handle on the applicationenvironment in order to ensure that the applications will perform as expected regardless of what changes areoccurring on the network, server or applications themselves. This is where application performance managementcomes into play.Application performance management relies on gathering critical information about the network, the servers andthe applications themselves. If an application has already been deployed and there is limited understanding of howthat application is performing on the network, then there is really no way to know how additional applications willperform. Therefore, application performance management consists of managing applications before they aredeployed (impact readiness), managing the applications that are already deployed (discovery and profiling), andmanaging the applications after they are deployed (measurement and monitoring).These tasks require support from traditional siloed organizations within IT, including the application developmentteam, the server team, the network team and the operations team. In the past, the developers would create anapplication and deploy it, and the server and network folks would argue and point fingers at each other regardingperformance issues.This is unacceptable in today's environments because the applications are much more sophisticated and prone toperformance problems. Each of these groups plays a part in the lifecycle of an application across an enterprise—from development to infrastructure readiness and deployment to ongoing management. In addition, today'sapplications are generating more revenue than ever before.This is the first in a series of articles to discuss application performance management to include strategies,application framework, application impact analysis, infrastructure readiness, and application management tools.Application Performance Management Best Practices
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