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Conference: Application Delivery Track

Track Chair: Jim Metzler
Vice President
Ashton, Metzler & Associates

Until recently few IT organizations dedicated resources to ensuring acceptable application performance. The Application Delivery track will identify what IT organizations must do to ensure acceptable application performance both today and tomorrow. It will also discuss how emerging management technologies allow IT organizations to identify and eliminate faults.

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Application Delivery
Conference Sessions Managing and Controlling Application Performance Tuesday, November 30 - 4:00 pm–4:00 pm In the vast majority of situations, the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does and this damages the creditability of IT. In addition, there has been an explosion recently in term of how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic such as Internet Radio transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better identify, manage and control application usage. Optimizing the Performance of Enterprise Applications Tuesday, November 30 - 4:00 pm–4:00 pm The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not. The Future of Application Delivery Tuesday, November 30 - 4:00 pm–4:00 pm Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need? What SOA and Web 2.0 Means to the Network Tuesday, November 30 - 4:00 pm–4:00 pm Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Currently Web 2.0 is beginning to be over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. That would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are just in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists on this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them. Deploying an Application Aware Network Tuesday, November 30 - 4:00 pm–4:00 pm An increasing number of CIOs get the fact that their role is to ensure that the end user's Quality of Experience (QoE) is acceptable and predictable. In order to achieve this goal IT organizations must deploy instrumentation that has visibility into all the events that can impact QoE. IT organizations must also automate as much of the data gathering, correlation, and analysis as possible in order to be able to intervene to prevent the occurrence of QoE issues, or to respond to them in real-time or near real-time. The panelists on this session will discuss the various options that exist for deploying instrumentation and will outline a cost effective instrumentation architecture.
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Managing and Controlling Application Performance