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To achieve smooth delivery of applications at all times, Applications Operations groups need APM solutions that can give them insight and analytics to manage their apps. This SlashGuide gives IT managers a scorecard to identify APM solutions that will deliver more efficient application performance.

To build such modern applications, developers could use some help. That is where application performance management (APM) solutions come in. Here are 10 ways developers can use APM to improve the quality and performance of their software.

Application Performance Management For Dummies, Riverbed Special Edition, introduces you to application performance management (APM) solutions and how these tools can help you monitor and troubleshoot your mission-critical applications — from the perspective of your users, as well as your systems.

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.

Many organizations continue to struggle with outdated IT in branch offices. Whether driven by a server refresh project, or by the need to solve a more acute problem posed by IT, adopting branch converged infrastructure solution as your next architecture can drive significant dollar savings while securing data and improving recovery.

Many organizations have invested in converged infrastructure for data centers. In remote offices however, servers and storage exist as isolated islands of disparate infrastructure that require management through separate operational processes. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

In today’s global economy, companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to disaster recovery. It can take days to restore branch operations. Branch converged infrastructure delivers local performance, stores data safely in the datacenter, and enables instant recovery.

Branch offices and remote locations generally lack the protections typically employed by data centers to keep out the unwanted and those who intend harm organization’s data. By enabling complete consolidation of remote servers and data to the data center, SteelFusion makes it possible to mitigate the risks associated with data in remote locations while delivering local performance, instant recovery, and lower TCO.

Your branch offices are a critical point of productivity and revenue yet come with a tremendous amount of overhead and risk. Branch converged infrastructure combines storage, and networking, and compute all in one device to fundamentally improve branch office service delivery while eradicating the risks associated with traditional branch office infrastructure. See how Riverbed SteelFusion can help you.

In today’s app-centric world, poor performance is bad business. It’s your job to protect the end-user experience—but that’s a tall order without a UNIFIED VIEW of performance that puts your network and application health in crystal-clear focus.

Reasons to centralize your performance monitoring & management controls:

· Increase ROI

· Troubleshoot Faster

· Drive Change

"Across industries, companies are looking for smarter and more efficient ways to guarantee the performance and availability of business-critical applications. Like many, you may have invested in Network Performance Management (NPM) and/or Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to gain visibility into the health of your application delivery infrastructure. The problem with this approach however, is that APM and NPM operations are rarely integrated—meaning little collaboration or collation of data occurs between the teams operating them. When performance degradations occur, troubleshooting efforts are often lengthy and marred with finger pointing as teams look to defer blame. A better approach is needed—one that assesses network and application performance as a whole."

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.

For many of today's data centers, the existing architecture is not designed for the needs of an increasingly mobile customer base. Users — no matter their location or specific device — are increasingly demanding rich, dynamic content. In this environment, a change in the network architecture is required for Web servers/Internet-facing content. IT organizations need to keep pace with end customer demand while still delivering highly efficient infrastructure. With Web-based applications and services now mission critical, there is a new focus on the end-user experience and the performance and availability of applications.

PCI DSS is a pragmatic set of best practices and security measures that any organization must follow if they accept and handle cardholder data online. The standard encompasses network security, data protection, data encryption, system security, access control, ongoing monitoring and testing and security policy development.

One of the key tenets of a modern data center is the ability to leverage technologies that enable automation in order to accelerate business processes and ultimately time to market. Organizations that continue to deploy legacy infrastructures and ignore this transformation to modern automated environments will soon face a harsh reality: Their legacy IT environments have restricted their ability to compete. Considering the fact that all modern businesses rely on IT to power their operations, IT organizations need to examine all aspects of the IT infrastructure for its ability to be automated and ensure that the deployed technology is an enabler for this transformation and not an inhibitor.