Compuware Publishes New Whitepaper Exploring Challenges Businesses Face When They Embrace the Cloud

Sept. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- DETROIT, Sept. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation , the technology performance company, today announced that it has published a new whitepaper titled: "The World is Not Flat: How Application Location Influences User Experience in the Cloud." The paper explores the challenges businesses face when they embrace the cloud, how to monitor and measure the potential breaking points in the application delivery chain and how to gain insight into cloud performance before small issues become bigger business problems.

Many businesses deploy cloud-based applications without a full understanding of the unique characteristics of the cloud. Cloud architectures are increasingly complex; to make matters worse, end users and customers are rarely located near the very resources upon which they depend. There are a variety of points in the application delivery chain that could impact overall performance or even fail completely. Adding cloud-based services to the mix only multiplies these issues.

This whitepaper outlines:

•Why cloud-based applications are more prone to performance issues;
•How to monitor all points of the application delivery chain; and
•How to enforce Cloud Service provider SLAs.
Download the whitepaper here (registration required): http://www.gomez.com/resources/whitepapers/the-world-is-not-flat-general/.

The Gomez platform is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user's browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.