Unified Performance Management

The demand for next-generation alternative, unified performance management solutions is growing, and the providers of these solutions are stepping forward to answer the call.

Among the best-in-class unified performance management providers, Watch4net has been enjoying record growth and success during an economic crunch that has prevented many IT companies from expanding at all.

Application performance is key to assuring high quality IT services. This is causing enterprises and service providers to reevaluate their management tool architectures and strategies.

Recent research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA (News - Alert)) shows that operations teams are growing increasingly frustrated with traditional approaches to monitoring performance.

Watch4net is meeting the need for cost-effective solutions that can bring performance data together quickly and easily to deliver an IT application or service to end-users, customers or partners.

The key differences leading to its competitive successes have been core architectural and cost attributes of APG such as ease-of-use, flexibility, lower computer platform requirements, simpler deployment and an overall lower total cost of ownership and operations.

Watch4net’s APG solution is an innovative performance management system that utilizes the single/tightly integrated service-oriented approach to unifying performance management. It offers a carrier-class solution, wide technology coverage, flexible data collection, EMS/NMS integration, cross-domain performance analysis, capacity planning, service level reporting, multi-tenant portal and scalable architecture.

One approach to fill the need for the performance manager of managers (PMoM) strategy is a single seamlessly integrated platform that has been optimized for the purpose of directly harvesting performance data from multiple sources, bringing them together and reconciling them within a central common system.

For this approach, there are two categories of technology providers for these types of solutions. The first is large, major market players in management technologies, who tend to take the loosely integrated approach, and the second is independent providers that lean more toward the unified platform approach.

Traditional solutions were built for extreme scale and reliability, at the expense of flexibility and adaptability and typically require substantial professional services both for initial deployment as well as any major subsequent changes in a managed environment. Newer generation solutions have been architected specifically to facilitate rapid deployment and easy adaptation to changing conditions and data sources in the managed environment.

Watch4net’s APG solution has been built specifically to meet the performance monitoring needs around fast-changing and growing IP-based applications and services, and has been optimized to embrace all of the interconnected technology domains that must work together for successful service delivery.

In addition to unified performance management, Watch4net offers other solutions such as network performance monitoring/reporting, data-center performance monitoring/reporting, application performance monitoring/reporting and application performance monitoring/reporting.