The explosion of Web services has spawned significant new challenges for IT
operations and the technologies they use. As the infrastructure requirements
for WebSphere applications continue to get more complex, the addition of Web
services suddenly expands the management focus to systems and applications
that may reside outside of IT's control.
Technologies are evolving to address these requirements with solutions that
monitor the various application dependencies, integrations, and layers for
WebSphere environments through a combination of component-level monitoring,
correlation/analysis, and transaction mapping. This article highlights the
challenges IT faces in maintaining Web services performance, the solutions
currently available to assist IT, and the industry/technology requirements
and standards needed to extend the reach of management tools to fully support
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Traditional network, system, and application management products deliver
incredible amounts of information about the status of a company's
infrastructure. However, if everything is up and running and a visitor still
can't purchase products or access information (for example, personnel,
financial, or health data) from the Web site, these tools have failed to
guarantee a positive end-user experience. The evolution of the Internet,
specifically e-business, requires even more scrutiny and detail about
application performance. To truly ensure the complete performance and
functionali... (more)
As developers rapidly embraced the use of component-based architectures, the
role of application servers in production has expanded from hosting somewhat
simple, servlet-based applications to exploiting Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)
and Java messaging services (JMS) to build robust eBusiness applications.
The proliferation of new, online business applications has sparked technology
innovations in what was once a completely separate industry - performance
management solutions. In the past 12-18 months, two previously unrelated
areas, development and IT operations, have been forced to... (more)
Frank Moreno is the product marketing manager for Dirig Software, a leading developer of award-winning enterprise performance management solutions. Frank has over 10 years of experience in product marketing, product management, and strategic alliances in the networking and software industries, and has written multiple articles on e-Business performance management.
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