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Is it a bird? Well no, but you can tweet about it. Is it a plane? No, but it does go on AutoPilot. Is it Superman? No. But it has super powers that allow organizations to get their business-critical applications running with the highest performance. It’s Nastel’s AutoPilot M6, an application performance management solution, providing enterprises a powerful mechanism for managing the performance of complex composite applications and their transactions. And the award-winning Nastel AutoPilot On-Demand for WebSphere MQ, a solution for self-service access to visibility and diagnostics for WMQ is offered as a free download from the Nastel site. Don’t just take our word for it; see for yourself how the product works by watching the video below.   ... (more)

Need More Network Visibility to Troubleshoot Application Performance Effectively?

When you monitor the availability and performance of your organization’s mission critical applications do you get all the information you need about the network to troubleshoot effectively? In many organizations the answer is no. IT teams use multiple solutions with no integration to monitor applications and the network separately with no shared visibility. To address this issue, Nastel partners with Kratos Networks to deliver an integrated network and application performance management solution. Our joint solution provides IT managers with a real-time, end-to-end analysis of th... (more)

Nastel Receives More Recognition as a Leader in APM

It’s not often that we like to give ourselves a pat on the back, but when we feel it’s deserving, well then we do it. Therefore, Nastel was named a Bronze-level winner in the Best in Biz awards in the Enterprise Product of the Year category. The winners were announced this week. Nastel is honored to have been included among the many prestigious companies that also received high marks and praise, namely Scandisk, Hubspan, Pure Storage and Spigit, which all competed in Nastel’s category. This is a fantastic accomplishment for Nastel and further showcases our expertise in the appli... (more)

What a T-shirt and hockey stick have to do with cloud computing

It’s no secret that 2011 saw the adoption rates of cloud computing increase, and 2012 should see even more growth as organizations not only move their critical applications to the cloud, but small and mid-sized businesses begin to request more cloud-based applications.   For all its popularity right now, cloud computing is only in its infancy stages. Years and even decades from now we’ll be looking at what happened in 2011-12 and repeating the phrase commonly heard on those annoying AT&T 4G LTE television ads, “that was so two decades ago.” That’s because ubiquitous computing is ... (more)

Seven Ways APM Can Prevent Profit Drain

Routines — we all depend on them. When we don’t, not much gets accomplished. The same can be said of IT. If we don’t establish certain protocols, routines if you will, applications run amok. Business processes are interrupted and the business fails to accomplish its goals.   So what makes application performance monitoring (APM) such an important solution for keeping a business flowing smoothly, growing profits, letting everyone go about their normal routines without interruption? When the right application performance management system is doing its job behind the scenes, there a... (more)