In order to manage application performance, you need the help of lots of different types of vendors. These vendors fall into two major categories, the performance management system vendors, and the application delivery system vendors. Performance management system vendors provide understanding about performance so you can manage it better, and application delivery system vendors apply technology to actually accelerate and/or control application performance to directly improve the end user experience.
Performance management systems look into the labyrinth of servers, networks, and/or desktop machines to see how well it functions and determine how to make it function better. Application delivery systems change, pull, push, convert, protect and perform amazing feats to make applications perform better on existing servers and networks, and to make bad applications behave.
Here is our starter lineup of the vendors that fall into the performance management system and application delivery system camps. Note that lines of distinction are not always clear because some vendors fall into both camps, but we find that despite some overlap most vendors fall predominately into one camp or the other.
Performance Management Systems
AdventNet
AlertSite
Apparent Networks
Auditec
BEA
BMC Software
Brix Networks
CA
Centrisoft
Compuware
Coradiant
Digital Fuel Technology
Dot-Com Monitor
Empirix
Fluke Networks
Gomez
HP/Mercury
Hypersoft
IBM/Tivoli
Indicative Software
InfoVista
Ipswitch
Itheon Networks
Keynote Systems
Knoa Software
Macro 4
Managed Objects
NetIQ
NetQoS
NetScout
Nimsoft
Oblicore
OPNET Technologies
OpTier
Quest Software
ScienceLogic
SeaNet Technologies
Symphoniq
TeaLeaf
Viola Networks
Webmetrics
WebSitePulse
WildPackets
Xa Systems
Xangati
Application Delivery Systems
Akamai
AT&T
Blue Coat Systems
BT
CacheLogic
Certeon
Cisco Systems
Citrix Systems
Coyote Point
EdgeCast
Exinda
Expand Networks
F5 Networks
Internap
Ipanema Technologies
Juniper Networks
Limelight
Masergy
Mirror Image
Orange
Packeteer
Radware
Riverbed
Silverpeak
Stampede
Strangeloop
Stratacache
Vanco
Verizon
Zeus Technology
Let us know if you think we are missing an important vendor that should be added to our lists.
We will be providing thought pieces about application performance with input from these two vendor types. We will include their views, insights, case studies, and other information of potential interest to our readers. Note that we will not focus on "the latest boxes or software features" because that is covered by Ann Bednarz in her weekly newsletter.
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Thank you for the lists, makes you think once you look the products!
As the article says it is not easy to categorize performance monitoring / measuring / optimizing / modeling / management / etc products and/or systems. Some of these products have more than one capability.
I don't know how to put to the list without listing all of them by name but for example almost all relational databases have performance measuring, reporting, optimizing and management capabilities. Or other systems, as MS Vista, some JIT compilers, etc which really measure, report and optimize based on usage and can be managed. Or, another examples, the products which offer measuring, reporting and either manual or automated but managed load balancing in virtual, clustered, multiprocessor, etc environments.
Not to criticize the article but because the performance management today is too often thought to be same as the capacity management, on which some products offer help and some don't, maybe that also would need a small clarification. Maybe just a small note that the performance management is (mostly) the tactical part of the capacity management which is strategic.
And arguable many transaction and operating systems also offer very good performance management with own measuring, reporting, and management functions as NonStop Pathway, z/OS work load management, etc. Ouch, a long list!
I hope I didn't confuse the issue but this is really an important subject for every company which uses computer systems and wants to manage the growth or even minute changes.
Scrutinizer: Performance Management Systems
Hello, I'd like to add Scrutinizer from www.plixer.com to the Performance Management Systems
list.
Thank You,
Mike
WildMetrix: Performance Management System
Hello,
I would like to add WildMetrix from www.ascendview.com to the list Performance Management Systems. WildMetrix monitors infrastructure performance and availability monitoring as well as ASP.NET Web Application monitoring.
Thank you,
Ryan Ringsred