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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Borland, Segue Collaborate To Optimize J2EE Performance
Segue Software and Borland Software Corp announced a strategic relationship.
The two companies will jointly market a comprehensive J2EE solution and
methodology for optimizing the performance of enterprise Java applications.
The joint offering is comprised of Segue's SilkPerformer, an enterprise load
and performance testing solution, and Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace, an
in-depth J2EE root-cause analysis solution, the performance management
component of the Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technology
set. With the combination of these two products, customers obtain an
end-to-end solution for proactively meeting performance targets for J2EE
applications by eliminating application bottlenecks.
Today, there exists tremendous business risk and revenue loss through
application outages in high-transaction, J2EE environments. Market trends
clearly demonstrate that J2EE technology adoption is growing; particularly in
Web-based, mission-critical enterprise applications. J2EE is becoming a
leading technology for use in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the
current trend towards the use of SOAs further increases the need for a robust
load testing and root-cause analysis solution to ensure acceptable levels of
performance.
"Growth in the development of transaction-intensive, enterprise J2EE
applications has underscored the criticality for the performance testing of
J2EE applications, prior to deployment. Borland and Segue deliver a powerful
lifecycle approach for performance management, offering a solution that can
test from the end-user perspective and also easily diagnose performance-
impacting issues deep within the J2EE tiers," said Kevin Gallagher, vice
president of Research and Reporting at Newport Group. "The combined solution
drastically reduces the risk, time and expense of resolving performance issues
to better meet the needs of enterprise customers."
Successful implementation of critical e-business applications depends on
proper planning, testing and management of applications, both before and after
deployment. The Borland/Segue solution and methodology are specifically
targeted at helping organizations minimize the risk of application downtime
and efficiently leverage QA and development resources on tuning activities
that will have immediate impact.
Organizations use SilkPerformer to model anticipated user load and surface
performance vulnerabilities, proactively. Performance testing is critical, as
even the most well-designed application "breaks" at relatively low Virtual
User (VU) levels in initial performance testing. Once SilkPerformer has
uncovered a performance problem, Borland's Optimizeit ServerTrace quickly
captures and reports on deep root-cause diagnostics information from within
all J2EE application tiers. Whether the performance issue exists in an
application, server or back-end system, Optimizeit ServerTrace can pinpoint
not only the individual component and method -- but also the actual line of
code in which the problem resides. Further, integration with Borland ALM
technologies, allows issues to be corrected at the code level for rapid
resolution with Borland JBuilder, the market leading Java development
environment.
"The key advantage of the Borland approach is the ability to troubleshoot
complex, enterprise applications and immediately isolate problems and
communicate them in an unambiguous way to development teams who can then take
action to correct critical problems in the code," commented Boz Elloy, senior
vice president of Software Products at Borland. "Combining load testing
approaches with the appropriate level of J2EE diagnostic information offers a
powerful performance solution for our joint customers."
"Collaboration between the quality assurance and development teams is key to
making any application a success," said Rohit Gupta, vice president of
alliances at Segue. "The strategic relationship with Borland provides our
joint customers the capability to performance test in J2EE environments in
tandem by quickly identifying and resolving issues deep within the J2EE tier
as problems are uncovered. Swift identification and resolution of performance
issues increases staff productivity, resource efficiency and return on
investment in all phases of application deployment."
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