Bristol's eSleuth tracks transaction performance
WITH ITS RELEASE this week of eSleuth, which is designed to analyze bottlenecks and system failures in applications based on IBM MQSeries middleware, Bristol Technology targeted the growing complexity of application integration.
According to Ken Blackwell, CTO of Bristol, most analysis programs simply point out when a problem occurred and alert the company to it, whereas eSleuth helps define why and where the problem occurred.
Blackwell said that "eSleuth is about helping organizations analyze and diagnose performance or logic problems in distributed transaction systems."
Thomas Murphy, program director at Meta Group, a Stamford, Conn.-based business-analysis company, commented that the ability to analyze transactions is fundamental to the health of any e-business.
"Any glitch in these applications represents millions of dollars that can be lost in overall revenue in a very short time. You really can't afford to fail," Murphy said.
The Bristol offering's capability of pinpointing why and where the problem occurred gives programmers powerful tools in problem resolution, according to Murphy.
"Knowing where the problem is is 90 percent of the solution," Murphy said.
Competitor Rational Software offers more breadth and a more integrated suite of products than does Bristol, Murphy said, but in terms of Web site-and system-testing capabilities, Bristol offers greater depth. Another competitor, Mercury, is currently developing a best-of-breed testing solution that complements Bristol's technology, Murphy said.
» posted by ITworld staff
InfoWorld
Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery. Download this whitepaper to find out the top reasons to upgrade and how to get continuous data protection and complete system recovery.
Data and system loss — from a hard drive failure, malicious attack, natural disaster, or simple human error — can happen anytime. Don’t leave your business vulnerable. Make sure you have a secure recovery strategy in place. Symantec's latest backup and system recovery technology can efficiently restore critical applications, individual emails and documents and even restore your entire system in minutes in the event of a loss.
Businesses face a growing challenge to ensure that the IT environment is properly protected. Backup Exec 12 integrates with other applications in the Symantec family of products, to complement your current data protection strategy, keep your data securely backed up and make it recoverable when you need it most.
