August 26, 2008 5:03 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
Performance ManagementThere are two ways of measuring application performance from the end user’s perspective: Synthetic transactions and real end user monitoring.
With synthetic transactions, an admin performs typical user functions while on a scripting screen; those actions are captured and run across multiple...
August 22, 2008 4:50 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
DataCenter,
Dell,
HP,
IBM,
server consolidation,
server virtualization,
virtual machines,
Virtualization,
VMmark,
VMwareThis week I wrote a follow up story on VMware Inc.'s virtualization performance benchmarking tool, VMmark, and found it is mainly used by vendors as a way to market...
August 21, 2008 3:24 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center disaster recovery,
DataCenter,
x86 serverMicrosoft's announcement of licensing changes on 41 of its server software products was a welcome change for users (and analysts) alike, although as reporter Bridget Botelho wrote, the
August 20, 2008 6:27 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
Performance ManagementLast week, while doing some background research for our application performance management tutorial, I got into a discussion with Julie Craig, a...