TIBCO ActiveSpaces appears to be gaining traction in the marketplace for in-memory data grids against competitors like Oracle Coherence as well as open source alternatives. For many E-Commerce applications it offers an effective solution for session caching, optimizing access to database content, and data replication on a large scale. In these systems, scaling is achieved…
When my son was about 6 years old, he spent some time watching Home Shopping Network at his grandmother’s house. A little later he announced that, for his next birthday, he wanted a Burmese Ruby in a Marquise Cut. I hated to disappoint him, but he ended up with a big box of Legos instead.…
Ottawa, Ontario and Corte Madera, CA, October 14, 2014 – Solace Systems announced today that SL Corporation, a leading provider of IT monitoring solutions, has introduced a solution that gives system administrators and application support teams more unified and visual information about the state and performance of their Solace message routers. The Solution Package for…
RTView provides industrial-strength real-time monitoring of many different technologies, especially the middleware, app servers, and data grids used to integrate large scale complex applications. While RTView offers many of the Application Performance Monitoring features (APM) defined by Gartner, most people are not aware of how much business value RTView provides as a solution far beyond…
Load-balanced, parallel, and complex … these words apply to the large-scale, distributed, mission-critical applications built on top of Oracle middleware components like WebLogic and Coherence. The resulting systems can be highly functional and scalable, but also very fragile. The probability of failure increases exponentially with complexity. Many large organizations are dependent on these applications for…
Corte Madera, CA – September 30, 2014 – SL Corporation, the leading provider of end-to-end monitoring solutions for complex distributed applications, announced today at Oracle OpenWorld that it has expanded its coverage of Oracle technologies with the release of its Connector for Oracle Enterprise Manager . This new connector collects performance and diagnostics data directly…
September 24, 2014 – Corte Madera, CA – Corte Madera, CA – September 24, 2014 – SL Corporation, a leading provider of application and service-level system monitoring solutions, today announced the availability of RTView Core version 6.4. Major enhancements include an updated Splunk data adapter, using the recent Splunk java SDK, to support connection to…
Corte Madera, CA – January 27, 2014 – SL Corporation, a leading provider of application and service-level system monitoring solutions, today announced the appointment of Mike Margulies as Vice President of Global Sales. Reporting directly to SL’s COO, Ted Wilson, Mike will be responsible for driving worldwide RTView product license and services sales for SL.…
With every new year, we see a flood of research notes, articles and blog posts regarding the latest IT strategic priorities. This year, these priorities range from analytics, to single transaction platforms, to cloud and mobile strategies, etc. However, it is rare to see a list that includes, as a top priority, improvements to the…
In his recent post in The Virtualization Practice, Bernd Harzog hits the nail on the head with Real-Time Monitoring: Almost Always a Lie. Here, Bernd points out that, in contrast to marketing claims that a monitoring solution is real-time, the fact is that multiple stages of data collection, processing and distribution introduce significant delays that dramatically limit…