BlueStripe & Analyst Whitepapers

Virtual Vigilance: Managing Application Performance in Virtual Environments (Registration Required)

Aberdeen's research found that organizations that are conducting server, desktop and storage virtualization projects are experiencing 18% reductions in infrastructure cost and 15% saving in utility cost. As organizations are conducting virtualization projects to achieve operational efficiencies and manageability of enterprise infrastructure, they are looking to ensure that virtualization projects do not negatively impact performance of business-critical applications. This report investigates and reveals the best-in-class practices that have helped project leads avoid mistakes led organizations to success in virtualization efforts.

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Improving Application Performance Troubleshooting (Registration Required)

Diagnosing why an application is slow is hard, at times taking multiple IT professionals weeks to isolate and resolve, making it a costly endeavor. Understand how you can quickly resolve slowdowns and become more efficient with faster application troubleshooting. This paper explains the challenges involved using current tools, provides a ‘wish list’ for application management and analysis, and explains the need for an application system-wide approach that monitors entire applications, not components.