De Topaz WeatherMap biedt als eerste een gedetailleerde inzicht in de correlatie van de Overall World Wide Web Performance naar e-Business Applications; Met Topaz WeatherMap kunnen de onderlinge relaties tussen Interne Web Infrastructuren en ISPs beter worden aangestuurd waardoor klantenervaringen verder kunnen worden verbeterd.
Mercury Interactive is marktleider in enterprise testen en oplossingen voor prestatiebeheer. De geautomatiseerde software ondersteunt bedrijven bij het aanbieden en onderhouden van applicaties die hoge prestaties moeten leveren. Overal ter wereld worden de oplossingen voor applicaties en technologische infrastructuur gebruikt om hardware en onderhoudskosten te beperken, continue inkomstenstromen te garanderen en concurrentieposities te versterken.
Mercury Interactive is opgericht in 1989 en is gevestigd in Sunnyvale, Californië. De onderneming heeft 1.400 werknemers en kantoren in ruim twintig landen. De Nederlandse vestiging staat in Utrecht en is telefonisch bereikbaar via 030- 241.70.90 en online via www.mercuryinteractive.nl
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One of the key features that the Topaz WeatherMap provides IT managers with
is the ability to create customized views of the different backbones that
correlate and connect to their business. IT managers can personalize the
Topaz WeatherMap to measure performance bottlenecks leading to their Web
site from different locations across city nodes, countries, continents, as
well as individual backbones. Reports and graphs provide historical charts
on performance between countries and city node pairs, and show the
performance between two individual backbone providers. Metrics such as
latency and availability can help users spot deviations over time, and they
can use the data to monitor and communicate with ISPs and make informed
decisions on service levels and communicate problems to customers with live
data as a backup.
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Press Release
Mercury Interactive Launches Internet Performance Map to Visually Capture
World Wide Web Traffic and Availability
Topaz WeatherMap Offers First Detailed Look at Correlation of Overall World
Wide Web Performance to e-Business Applications; Provides Better Management
of Internal Web Infrastructures and ISP Relationships for Improved Customer
Experience
Sunnyvale, CA - May 16, 2001- Mercury Interactive Corp. (NASDAQ: MERQ), the
leading provider of enterprise testing and performance management solutions,
today announced a new Web application performance component to the Topaz
family of Web management and diagnostic solutions. The new addition, Topaz
WeatherMap, is the first hosted service to monitor the primary networks that
comprise the World Wide Web, providing IT managers with a view of how the
overall Internet performance may impact their e-business applications
enabling IT to better manage their internal Web infrastructures, ISP
relationships and improve the customer experience.
Topaz WeatherMap uses data gleaned from agents located on a distributed
global overlay network, to monitor latencies and delays between network
backbones and major service providers. The data captured can be used to
gauge the impact of global, regional, or local network performance problems,
and helps managers use this data for their advantage.
"Barnes and Noble.com has been using the Topaz WeatherMap service for
network backbone issues that are beyond the firewall and beyond our control
that we can now capture visually, instantly," said Barry Weber, vice
president of Infrastructure at Barnes and Noble. "The Topaz WeatherMap is a
great addition to our performance management toolkit, helping us isolate
problems and delays within city nodes. We can use that information to call
our service provider and tell them about the performance degradation in real
time."
Topaz WeatherMap Monitors Worldwide Connection Points
E-business applications are frequently designed to support geographically
dispersed users who connect to systems through paths that pass through
several network backbones. Topaz WeatherMap is the only detailed performance
and diagnostic tool to monitor delays at connection points between the
backbone- where packets of information are handed off between major network
providers - following the same route as an e-business transaction throughout
the Internet 'cloud' until it reaches its final destination.
Using this information, network managers can proactively monitor the
performance at points of interconnectivity to gauge the impact of network
delays for their end users. With Topaz WeatherMap, they can diagnose network
problems, view trends and make informed decisions about their provider's
service levels. All of this data is delivered to the Topaz Console on the
user's browser, where managers can see several different views of
performance thresholds and alerts, and drill down to specific components in
the infrastructure for fast problem resolution.
"Mercury Interactive is offering customers a powerful capability - to see a
global map of performance metrics for the federation of networks that make
the Internet - and be able to drill down on problems and use the data to
better serve their own customers," said Ido Sarig, Mercury Interactive's
vice president of products in the Application Performance Management
business unit. "Topaz WeatherMap is a very compelling service for a variety
of applications, specifically backbone diagnostics and how performance
relates to the customer's e-business, and to monitor service levels between
ISPs and the customer site."
Topaz WeatherMap Customization Allows IT to Create Personalized Views
Pricing and Availability
The Mercury Interactive's Topaz WeatherMap is available now on a
subscription basis and starts at $200 (US) dollars a month. For a free
evaluation, please visit the Mercury Interactive site at
www.mercuryinteractive.com/products/topaz/technical/weathermap/ or call
1-866-TOPAZ4U.
About Topaz
Mercury Interactive's Topaz was designed to meet organizations' application
performance management (APM) needs. By using Topaz, organizations can
monitor the performance of their applications, receive alerts when issues
arise, identify problems and diagnose their cause. It is the only solution
that measures the end-user experience 24x7 and correlates performance issues
to their root cause in the Web infrastructure-inside and outside the
firewall and in the application. As a result, organizations can ensure users
are receiving solid performance and quickly resolve any infrastructure
problems.
MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION
Mercury Interactive is the leading provider of enterprise testing and
performance management solutions. The company's automated software and
managed services help companies deliver and maintain high-performance
applications. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive solutions across
their application and technology infrastructures to minimize hardware and
operational expenses, protect revenue streams and enhance their competitive
positions. Mercury Interactive was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, Calif. The company has over 1400 employees with offices in more
than 20 countries. Further information is available at
www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at U.S. +1.408.822.5200.