A pioneering application performance management (APM) tool that’s now in the hands of Symantec has been updated to work better with the multitiered applications that are increasingly popular for enterprise and online use.
Called i3, the software was developed by Precise Software and bought by Veritas four years ago.
Veritas was subsequently acquired by Symantec, which has now enhanced i3 so it can correlate transactions across application tiers – a vital factor for today’s complex and fast-growing application infrastructures, according to Sateesh Narahari, senior product marketing manager at Symantec.
Also new in the latest i3 version 8 is a software development kit to let customers adapt i3 to monitor legacy, custom and packaged apps, he said. It also has extended support for Microsoft SQL Server and .Net, for Sybase and SAP, and for J2EE platforms such as WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Oracle.
Also new in version 8.0 is an Application Service Dashboard, which provides a consolidated view of relevant business metrics from monitored systems, and an expert tuning advisor called SmartTune, which Narahari claimed can help admins improve the performance of SQL Server and .Net systems in particular.
The software costs from US$1500 per physical CPU – whether single or multicore, and regardless of how many virtual systems it supports.
