New WildPackets White Paper Explores Benefits of the Apdex Standard for Application Performance Measurement.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif. -- WildPackets Inc., innovators innovators people who will try new things. early innovators important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems. in advanced network analysis, today published a free white paper about Apdex, a new industry standard for Application Performance Monitoring (APM (Advanced Power Management) A programming interface (API) from Intel and Microsoft for battery-powered computers that lets programs communicate power requirements to slow down and speed up components. See ACPI. APM - Advanced Power Management ). WildPackets is a founding member of the Application Performance Index (Apdex) Alliance, an open consortium of leading vendors in the network analysis and measurement industry that have defined a new performance reporting methodology. The new methodology normalizes the incompatible performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. reported by various APM products and by other tools, including network analyzers A specialized hardware device or software in a desktop or laptop computer that captures packets transmitted in a network for routine inspection and problem detection. Also called a "sniffer," "packet sniffer," "packet analyzer," "traffic analyzer" and "protocol analyzer," the network . Apdex provides a single metric designed to accurately reflect the experience of application end users. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]"There are lots of metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. available for measuring aspects of application and network performance," said Scott Haugdahl, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of WildPackets and author of the white paper. "But when we try to relate some of these metrics, such as transaction per second, with the quality of service end users are experiencing, we find little correlation. The benefit of Apdex is that it provides network administrators with a single metric -- a number between 0 and 1 -- that truly reflects the quality of the end user's experience while performing a task. Apdex is the first metric to look not simply at how some box or a part of the network is performing, but how an application overall is performing from an end user's point of view. And that's important, because keeping end users productive is the ultimate job of IT." E[acute accent]Haugdahl adds: "Because the metric enables administrators to tell at a glance how well an application is performing, IT organizations are showing a great deal of interest in Apdex. Just as MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from scores allow us to assess the quality of a VoIP call as a user hears it, Apdex lets us assess the performance of an application while a user is interacting with it." E[acute accent]WildPackets' OmniPeek network analyzer supports the Apdex metric, reporting on application performance along with other network data essential for troubleshooting and optimizing enterprise networks. For more information about OmniPeek and WildPackets' OmniAnalysis Platform, visit: http://www.wildpackets.com/products/omni/overview E[acute accent]IT managers and engineers interested in learning more about Apdex are invited to download the free Apdex White Paper from the WildPackets web site at this address: http://www.wildpackets.com/support/whitepapers E[acute accent]WildPackets is also offering free Web seminars about Apdex as part of the company's "Making Networks Smarter" Web seminar series. For a Web seminar schedule, visit: http://www.wildpackets.com/smarter/ E[acute accent]About WildPackets, Inc. E[acute accent]Since 1990, WildPackets has been developing innovative, high-quality, easy-to-use and valuable solutions to maintain the health and integrity of critical data-in-motion. From the desktop to the datacenter, wired to wireless, distributed and local, WildPackets products enable IT organizations to monitor, troubleshoot To find out why something does not work and to fix the problem. Troubleshooting a computer often requires determining whether the problem is due to malfunctioning hardware or buggy or out-of-date software. See debug. , and secure their network systems. Sold in over 60 countries through a broad network of channel and strategic partners, WildPackets products are deployed in all industrial sectors, including 80% of the Fortune 1000. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com. E[acute accent]All trademarks are property of their respective holders. E[acute accent]Web Release: http://www.wildpackets.com/corporate/news/06-06-27 |
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