Agentless or Agent-based Monitoring? Choose a Hybrid Approach Using BMC Performance Manager
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BMC&reg; Performance Manager, the next evolution of BMC Patrol, combines agent-based technology with the local, lightweight presence of an agentless solution. This paper discusses the deficiencies of most infrastructure monitoring products, describes the functionality needed, and reviews how BMC Performance Manager provides that functionality.
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(Source: BMC Software) This paper investigates the problems associated with client management and explains the ITIL best practices for client management.  Download the "Connecting Business and IT Goals with Closed loop Client Management" white paper, compliments of BMC Software, now.
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This whitepaper will provide information on using Veritas&trade; Cluster Server to increase application availability in a cost-effective way. It will provide an overview of the history of clustering solutions in the open systems market and detail how Veritas clustering differs from other solutions in the control of larger, more cost-effective clusters.
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(Source: Symantec) This white paper demonstrates how the Symantec APM solution helps organizations keep SOA applications running at peak performance to improve interactions and enhance business agility, flexibility and productivity.
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I can imagine the mass deployment of virtualized storage controllers. The heyday of RAID controllers is coming to an end. It has me thinking about the mass consumption of virtualization, which leads me to another thought: the mass deployment of embedded virtualized processes.
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(Source: Raritan)  KVM, serial-over-IP, monitoring and management are becoming fundamental building blocks of IT management strategies. This report looks at the business advantages, including ROI implications, of MSP Alvaka's adoption of out-of-band capabilities from Raritan.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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(Source: Symphoniq) Learn why traditional performance tools can't deliver the visibility and control required to manage today's complex architectures as well as requirements an optimal solution should provide.  Listen to this podcast now!
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The Zend Developer Zone has another new tutorial from Padraic Brady talking about testing your applications (i.e. unit tests). In this new article, he expands on his previous one and dives a bit deeper into the behaviour-driven development process.   In this article, I introduce a TDD related practice called Behaviour-Driven Development which has been gathering attention for over a year and gaining converts (like me!).   He briefly covers what BDD is and how it can be used to solidify code against issues that might come up down the road (and how it compares to test-driven development). Some sample code/tests are included to give you a better idea of how it all fits together - a set of scenarios for any given "story". True to the title, Padraic writes his tests around the construction of a Klingon Bird of Prey ship.
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(Source: Ipanema Technologies)  This paper looks at the three key reasons why some applications do not perform well over the WAN. It then describes a list of pitfalls and tips that any network manager should be aware of when designing a WAN acceleration strategy. Finally, it describes how Ipanema is tackling the application performance challenge with an integrated approach covering optimization, acceleration and visibility.
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Kinetic Data, the leading provider of third-party Business Service Management (BSM) tools for the BMC Remedy platform, today announced the details and availability of its new Kinetic Data Partner Program.
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(Source: Symphoniq) Understanding why performance problems exist requires the ability to correlate application transaction data back to the source anywhere in the application infrastructure. Learn more in this Podcast.
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Organizations face increasing pressures to optimize IT performance while reducing IT costs.  Until now, few organizations had tools to increase Service Level Compliance, adopt ITIL and convince C-level executives that the IT department aligns with business priorities.  Magnum Technologies' Business Service Management whitepaper explores these issues offering client-proven solutions to current problems facing IT organizations.
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(Source: BMC Software) Are time constraints pressuring your development, QA, and support resources to cut corners on software quality? If so, your company's not alone. According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, "...problem resolution is a major time-sink for developers and a drain on the efficiency of application development and support."
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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Analysis No delay in EC anti-trust compliance
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As important as a physical supply chain Readers may recall that I wrote last year about Silver Creek SystemsÂ®. At that time I extolled its capabilities for product data quality (matching, cleansing and classification) through the use of semantically-based content profiling and attribute identification. This is particularly relevant when information comes into the organization in unstructured formats as most conventional data quality tools have historically been limited to support for structured information.â¦