Application performance, network engineers and Cisco Live

By on June 22, 2010 in Service Assurance

Going to Cisco Live? Check out these sessions on how to guarantee optimized services in virtual environments.

Network managers in the know realize they must master the art of optimized application performance just as they conquered Cisco router configuration. The application performance related job duty fell in the laps of network gurus years ago when it became clear that the network wasn’t always to blame for poor application performance — but that network engineers possibly held the best perspective on how to optimize bandwidth and other network resources to ensure business-critical apps performed as expected.

Cisco Live 2010Next week at Cisco Live attendees will get a chance to learn more about how to manage application performance from the network perspective.

CA Technologies is hosting a “super session” in which Cisco vet Cliff Meltzer, now corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA Technologies Service Assurance Business Unit will address the challenges network engineers face when virtualization is incorporated into the environment. Joined by Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of the Virtualization and Service Automation business unit at CA Technologies, Meltzer will share best practices on how to prepare for higher levels of virtualization as well as learn how automation triggers and real-time performance data can be used to enable successful QoS and SLA fulfillment.

In addition to that super session, Cisco Live attendees should check out a session entitled “Keys to Ensuring Application Performance.” According to show information, this session will feature accounts from the network team at AutoTrader.com. They are slated to discuss the best practices for optimizing application performance and managing security concerns. The session reportedly will help attendees learn how to overcome the challenges associated with troubleshooting multi-tiered applications as well as combating hacking attacks using performance management tools.

Another session, entitled “From Server Virtualization to Cloud Computing – Leveraging a Flexible Network Infrastructure to Accelerate Datacenter Service Deployment” is worth a visit as well. This session will offer attendees a “hands-on” look with Cisco experts who will explore architecture, design and best practices for developing a flexible, secure and efficient cloud.

And what would a trip to Las Vegas and Cisco Live be without some entertainment. The Cisco Live Customer Appreciation Event will give attendees the opportunity to let loose and explore the social side of networking. While word has it that the NetQoS party at Cisco Live will also happen in 2010, even now that NetQoS is part of CA Technologies.

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About Denise Dubie

Denise Dubie is New Media Principal in CA Technologies Thought Leadership Group. Prior to joining CA in 2010, Dubie spent 12 years of her career at Network World, an IDG company, covering the IT management industry and all its players (including CA and competitors) as well as high-tech careers and vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. As Senior Editor at Network World, Dubie also authored the publication's twice-weekly Network and Systems Management Alert newsletter and contributed to the Web site's Microsoft Subnet blog. Before IDG, she served as Assistant Managing Editor at Application Development Trends, managing writers and the monthly publication's production process. Dubie started her professional journalism career as a Staff Writer/Reporter at The Transcript, a small daily paper in Western Massachusetts. Dubie holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, with minors in journalism and political science, from Boston University.
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