Application Performance ManagementIn today’s economic climate companies need to source solutions that help them drive efficiency whilst ensuring business continuity and improve communications performance.
Effective data centre consolidation will help to achieve this goal by reducing costs at the branch office, increase operational flexibility and improve data security.
Easynet APM (Application Performance Management) suite of services offers the customer a global and fully managed service that helps them to drive further operational efficiencies and business continuity through IT consolidation whilst optimising the end-user experience of application response times.
Driving Business Efficiency
The server centralisation can bring great improvements in operational efficiency if the application delivery challenges can be addressed.
In this new environment the end-user will access applications via the WAN, instead of the LAN. This can introduce poor application response times impacting employee productivity. The APM suite of services is the ideal solution for this by enabling customers to centralise their application to Data Centres optimizing the performance of the applications running over the WAN.
Delivering a great end-user experience
APM employs several innovative capabilities to improve application response times restoring the ‘LAN-like’ experience for the end-user.
Customer environment often contains different types of application running over the Network, APM manages the right performance for most of the applications being used (SAP, Outlook, Citrix, CIFS…).
APM can also include Reporting and Monitoring Tools to offer traffic and application performance visibility and control.
Enhanced consolidation
Our approach helps you drive a deeper level of consolidation. In addition to comprehensive WAN optimisation APM also includes a file object caching feature. This reduces processor loading on the servers allowing you to achieve higher server virtualisation ratios.
APM includes functionality for:
- Application and User Breakdown Analysis
- Application Performance Scores
- Network Trending, Rightsizing and Planning
- Dynamic traffic shaping to prioritise performance on a per user & per application basis
- WAN Optimisation
- CIFS acceleration (Windows File Service Acceleration)
Freeing up your resources
Delivering the performance required to meet the needs of your business is of paramount importance. APM is a fully managed service built seamlessly into the WAN.
Safeguarding Business Continuity
Data centre consolidation provides control of your data and infrastructure; however it doesn’t guarantee the continuity of legacy applications.
Our design and implementation allows you to centralise applications whilst maintaining usability.
Ensuring regulatory compliance
Issues ensuring the security of data are magnified when data is hosted within a branch office. Centralised data is easier to manage in terms of security, integrity and corporate compliance.
Integrated design
To be effective, WAN acceleration needs to be designed as part of the WAN and not around it. APM devices are installed off-path, rather than in-line, to ensure that there is no single point of failure on the WAN.
Keep your Business Communicating
Consolidation helps keep communications consistent but to maintain availability & usability, the WAN and its optimisation needs to be designed to work consistently with LAN-like performance.
Uninhibited communications
APM bolsters your communication capability, enabling you to effectively engage with your employees on business specific subjects via communication tools, such as email, CRM, ERP and collaboration.
Flexibility for change
Communications techniques change over time. Despite the current economic climate, IS organisations have increased pressure to launch new applications and support new methods of communication. APM helps remove WAN related issues from the challenge allowing you to focus on the applications.