NEW YORK, April 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR) today announced that its Director of Cloud Computing, Doug Willoughby, will discuss how deploying cloud-based, borderless applications impacts performance management this week at SYS-CON's Cloud Expo 2010 Conference in New York City. The session, titled: "Performance Management for Composite Applications," will take place on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 1:45 p.m. ET.
Willoughby will also give attendees a sneak preview of a new collaborative cloud computing community web portal sponsored by Compuware called CloudSleuth. A beta version of the CloudSleuth goes live today, with the site officially launching later this summer. CloudSleuth uses real data to drive discussions about cloud performance management.
In his presentation, Willoughby will discuss how the benefits of cloud computing can deliver new IT functionality to the business quickly and at low initial cost. Additionally, he will highlight how borderless applications present a new challenge to IT departments: managing application performance and availability when the application assets cross organizational and geographic borders. Such borderless applications seamlessly integrate cloud, web and data center services together, while maintaining the end-user perspective that they are single applications. Willoughby will detail how enterprises can tackle the performance challenges presented by this new application delivery model.
"While mission-critical applications will still typically be provided by company-owned resources in the data center, IT departments will increasingly use cloud-based applications and services to more rapidly deliver new functionality to the business," said Willoughby. "The success of such efforts will depend on tools that stop the finger-pointing and give IT performance visibility across the enterprise and Internet to cloud services providers. I look forward to sharing use cases and real world examples with my peers at Cloud Expo 2010 and to detailing how the entire IT community—IT operations, cloud service providers, architects and developers—can build and deploy cloud-based applications with optimal performance in mind."
Check out the beta version of CloudSleuth at: www.cloudsleuth.net.
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