The Cloud. Opportunity - and Risk

The promise of cost and productivity benefits of private and hybrid cloud computing platforms addresses top of mind concerns of the enterprise. This is why nearly every Global IT department is considering moving applications to this new platform. However, veteran IT execs are cautious knowing too well that those who will move too early will suffer from being on the "bleeding edge", while those who will move too slow will be subject to corporate pressure on their cost structure. Indeed, the private cloud has its application risks:

• Old application performance problems do not go away
  
  
• Applications will need to be adjusted for dynamic provisioning on the Cloud
  
  
• Adverse effects of virtualization and resource sharing on application performance will have to be addressed

IT departments will have to address the following application QoS (Quality of Service) concerns to enable a gradual transition to the cloud:

• Avoid degradation of service during the phases of transition and thereafter
  
  
• Address negative impact of inter-application shared resource contention on QoS
  
  
• Leverage instant application provisioning to boost QoS at peak application load times

Precise TPM: Automated Transaction Management for Cloud-based Applications

Designed for Mission Critical Applications, Precise automates QoS management on physical, virtual and hybrid infrastructure. Customers use Precise to manage and improve transaction processing time, reduce resolution time of performance incidents, and prevent transaction performance loss incidents altogether. Precise provides application and transaction QoS information to the key IT stakeholders through multiple role views - based on a federated PMDB (Performance Management Database).

• Precise consistently monitors every transaction through all application stack tiers – from URL, through application, middleware, database to storage-spindle - for custom (Java/.NET), packaged (SAP, Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel) and composite (SOA) apps
  
  
• Precise automatically detects, isolates, and guides the resolution process for application performance incidents increasing the overall application uptime, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and the systems’ capacity to service an ever growing transaction flow
  
  
• Precise provides role-based transaction performance views to all stake holders (LOB managers, ops managers, app support, experts)
  
  
• Precise detects and reduces inter-application impact on QoS such as: VM events, Batch scheduling, Database jobs (ETL, SOA services, foreign applications), and storage contention, increasing overall datacenter efficiency
  
  
• Precise is co-provisioned on the VM with its underlying monitored application - adjusting to expansions and contractions of the virtual platforms for persistent QOS management on the private cloud