Demand-Driven Application Control: Assuring Application Performance

In this paper, we examine the evolution of enterprise applications, the data centers in which these applications reside and the increasing expectations of businesses and end-users on the Quality of Service (QoS) their applications deliver. We also compare the differences between Application Performance Monitoring and Application Control and why traditional approaches to application performance assurance are no longer sufficient to meet today's complex data center and application design, nor meet end-user and business expectations.