Stories about: Coradiant

You might believe, and with some real justification, that the term "end to end" is only used by vendors who custom-fit the definition to the scope of their particular product.

Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.

Software agents -- long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices -- have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments.

Coradiant on Thursday announced it would couple its Web-traffic-analysis product with business-intelligence capabilities to help IT managers better understand the impact on the business of the user experience with Web-based applications.

Like veteran poker players, network executives have long depended on a mix of skill, instincts and just plain luck to predict application performance. With business success hanging in the balance, however, today's stakes are too high for a gamble on application optimization.

To optimize performance, net execs must manage an application throughout its life cycle, from predeployment to the user desktop. The following technologies can help.

Network execs may need up to three layers of tools sets to ensure great application performance.

As companies have become increasingly dependent upon electronic transactions as a primary means of customer interaction, many have found that it's no longer adequate to simply monitor overall performance. For businesses such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, monitoring each user's experience has become critical.

TeaLeaf this week announced it had revamped its Web-based application performance management software to now more accurately capture and measure the customer experience with a Web site or an online application.

Kim Jahnz doesn't like to brag, but she says that over the years she has mastered managing network and systems performance and availability at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee. However, Jahnz knows she faces a bigger challenge in 2006.

Management service provider Coradiant last week week announced a deal with fellow service provider dbaDirect, which the company says will add remote database management to its suite of services.