Ensuring the Performance of Cloud-based Applications

Session Date and Time: Day 2, March 24, 2010 at 9.45am EST (6.45am PST) (45min)
Keywords: application, performance, troubleshooting, best practices
Authors: James Bahn, Virtual Instruments.
Abstract: Cloud computing offers many benefits, but IT staff lose the ability to “see” behind the cloud, jeopardizing their ability to troubleshoot problems and assure performance meets application SLAs. What happens when an application slows? In large networks with physical addresses for everything, troubleshooting performance problems is often a nightmare. Moving everything into the cloud just makes it more difficult. Fortunately, there are best practices that allow the cloud infrastructure to be instrumented, monitored, and constantly, yet unobtrusively, measured to see how it is affecting applications. At the same time, these practices produce the metrics necessary for granular SLAs.

Bio:
James Bahn is Director of Marketing at Virtual Instruments. He has over twenty five years of experience in product management, marketing, engineering management and sales with HP, Veritas, Hitachi Data Systems, Brocade, and Virtual Instruments. Since 1999, Jim has specialized in networked storage, and storage management software. Jim’s current role as Marketing Director is to evangelize Virtual Instrument’s IT infrastructure optimization solutions to Virtual Instrument’s field, partners, and customers. Most recently, Jim provided a contributed piece published in IT Business Edge on how to do more with less on exploiting over-provisioned SAN.

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