Altaworks Panorama 1.5 Advances J2EE Performance Management and Offers Expanded Support for IBM WebSphere and DB2.Business/Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002 New Release of Performance Management Software for Application Server Environments Extends Probable-cause Analysis to Method Level At the annual IBM DeveloperWorks developerWorks is a website run by IBM for software developers. It contains a large number of how-to articles and tutorials, as well as software downloads and code samples, discussion forums, podcasts, blogs, wikis, and other resources for developers and technical professionals. Live conference, Altaworks Corporation, (www.altaworks.com), a leading developer of performance and availability management software for application server environments, such as those built on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere(R), today announced the release of Panorama(TM) 1.5. With this latest version, Altaworks advances its leadership in managing J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. server environments by pioneering the industry's first capability for automating the detection of probable causes of performance problems down to the method level. Altaworks has also expanded its management of IBM-based environments by adding support for IBM WebSphere 4.0 and IBM's Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI See Private Mortgage Insurance. ) API and by enhancing it's monitoring of IBM's DB2(R) database. The advanced capabilities in this latest version of Altaworks' flagship solution enable IT administrators and developers to achieve an unprecedented level of insight and analysis for optimizing the performance of their application server environments. Altaworks Panorama helps companies monitor and analyze eBusiness infrastructures holistically by measuring actual, live transactions and correlating their performance with the health of critical systems, such as application servers, in order to avoid downtime and lost business. While monitoring the performance of these critical systems and environments, Panorama provides in-depth, automated, probable-cause analysis to help companies identify and strengthen the weak points of their eBusiness infrastructures to ensure maximum optimization of eBusiness transactions. With the release of Panorama 1.5, users can now receive automated probable-cause alerts for individual methods that include performance information such as average execution time, invocations, and exceptions. Such granularity radically speeds up the troubleshooting process because IT operations personnel no longer have to wait on application developers to hunt and peck Refers to typing on a keyboard using only one or two fingers of each hand. Although many hunt and peck typists can type very fast, most of them have to keep their eyes on the keys nearly all the time. They do not have the same sense of the keyboard layout as do touch typists. for the offending methods - Altaworks Panorama finds them. Panorama also benefits quality-assurance and testing personnel by visually correlating the real-time effect of a test load on all distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications tiers at the system process, method and class level. "The new release of Altaworks Panorama extends the range and granularity of performance measurement and analysis to now include the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. method level," said Tim Grieser, research director at IDC. "This means that Altaworks' monitoring, correlation, and probable-cause analysis approach can be used to penetrate more deeply into application server environments, such as those built on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. , in order to help IT avoid downtime, diagnose slow performance, and prevent lost business." Altaworks Panorama 1.5 also brings expanded management of IBM technologies to the market. With the new release, Panorama is one of the first companies to support IBM's PMI initiative. PMI is a set of packages and libraries designed to assist with the gathering, delivering, processing and displaying of performance data in WebSphere application servers. Coupled with Panorama's patent-pending WebSphere instrumentation, Panorama's PMI support enables users to obtain the broadest and deepest insight available for WebSphere application server performance. Panorama 1.5 also adds more granular DB2 management, specifically in the areas of locking, sorting and tablespace monitoring. "The functionality as seen in Altaworks Panorama 1.5 is a good example of how IBM and leading companies like Altaworks work together via the IBM Initiative for Emerging Technology Developers to deliver innovative technologies and enter new markets," said Cynthia Erdman, Director of Strategy and Business Development, IBM Developer Relations. Altaworks also delivered new functionality that takes Panorama's renowned probable- cause analysis to the next level. With Panorama 1.5, users not only benefit from built-in cause analysis but also have the option of working with Altaworks' Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and a new modeling tool for creating additional or custom probable-cause scenarios for their unique applications. "No other management solution for J2EE environments provides the power and convenience of built-in probable-cause analysis as well as the flexibility to create custom probable-cause identification scenarios," said Steve McCalmont, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Altaworks Corp. "The result is the industry's most comprehensive ability to identify the true causes of application server environment performance slowdowns without having to manually sift through thousands of individual performance metric alerts." About Altaworks Corporation Headquartered in Nashua, NH, Altaworks is a leading developer of performance and availability management software for distributed, Web-based application See Web application. server environments such as those built on IBM WebSphere(R) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) and BEA WebLogic(TM) (NasdaqNM:BEAS). The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Altaworks Panorama, was built from the ground up to give companies unprecedented visibility into the performance of live transactions and their supporting systems and applications. The Altaworks solution monitors actual, live transaction response times and correlates these key indicators with the potential causes of performance problems. Altaworks gives companies the ability to maximize their current eBusiness infrastructure investments by efficiently troubleshooting business transaction slowdowns that can lead to lost business. Founded in late 1999, Altaworks is backed by strategic financial partners St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Venture Capital, Prism Venture Partners and YankeeTek Ventures, and has raised more than $27 million in two rounds of funding. Note: Altaworks and Altaworks Panorama are trademarks of Altaworks Corporation. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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