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Wily Technology's Introscope distributed application management solution is unrivaled
in the industry. Most competing application management tools cannot compete with
Introscope's agent technology, which can run in Java Virtual Machines (JVMs),
production J2EE application servers or can be embedded in JavaBeans or Java classes
that predate J2EE applications.
As Java/J2EE becomes a key hub for integrating and managing enterprise-wide
apps and data, Java/J2EE devs have a unique opportunity to play a big role
in the about-to-boom career sector -- end-to-end applications management. So
say execs at Wily Technologies, and they've talked to 100s of enterprise customers
that share their view.
Wily Technology takes a new approach for deploying and maintaining applications
by ensuring a unified, collaborative method for J2EE reliability and resiliency
across the application life cycle. Rather than employing the traditional IT
silo-focused optimization for system management, Management 360 provides the "dimensions
of visibility" necessary to manage the information supply chain in enterprises
that require a collaborative management solution where critical Web applications
have an impact on business processes.
Package aids management of Java apps, IT Week, 1 November 2004, by David Neal
Wily Technology last week launched its Management 360 system to help firms
manage their Java-based web application and diagnose problems. The system is
particularly designed to support mission-critical and complex applications,
the vendor said.
Managing Java applications as services within a services-oriented architecture
got a little easier this week with an expanded version of Wily Technology Inc.'s
Introscope application-management toolset. Called Management 360, the expanded
offering includes Introscope 5.3, an upgraded version of Wily's core software
that was also released this week. To the core product Wily has added tools
and services designed to let IT managers spot application problems early, identify
the cause, and alert the right technical staffer to correct it. Such a sequence
helps a company meet service-level agreements with customers and partners.
Wily's new management package, Management 360, seeks to bring all the stakeholders
within enterprises together, sharing information using a common language. Wily's
approach, the company says, enables organizations to act in real-time in a
cooperative manner.
Wily Technology, which has built a strong following in the J2EE Web application
management space with its Introscope software platform, today released Management
360, a solution set of software, services, training, and best practices meant
to provide a more strategic approach to managing spreading Web-based infrastructure.
Application management is becoming one of the hottest sectors in enterprise
computing as IT organizations try to optimize their system and network resources.
Wily Technology focuses exclusively on this space for Java-built applications.
In an interview with CRN Editor in Chief Michael Vizard, Wily founder and CTO
Lew Cirne explains why next-generation, component-based applications create
a need for more sophisticated application management — in turn, opening
up opportunities for solution providers.
J2EE is now well entrenched in the enterprise. More than half of all new enterprise
applications are being deployed on J2EE platforms, and many enterprises now
have hundreds, if not thousands, of applications running on J2EE. Its use spans
projects ranging from internal line-of-business to customer-facing Internet
commerce infrastructures. With widespread adoption of J2EE now in full swing,
are enterprises addressing or planning for the long-term maintenance and performance
of these applications beyond initial implementation? In his Java Pro Live!
session, Lewis Cirne delves into the most pressing Java application management
issues.
Following
After a Wily Thread, WebSphere Journal (56kB pdf), September 2004, by Lewis Cirne
Within the next five years, more and more enterprises will standardize on the
J2EE platform, resulting in thousands more commercial Java application deployments.
And in many cases, that means migrating existing legacy application and mainframe
applications to J2EE. These applications, while varying greatly in their technology
complexity and their business functions, will all share a common trait: the need
to be monitored and managed proactively so that organizations can prevent outages
before they occur.
Ptak, Noel & Associates
Commentary: Survey Shows Enterprises Still Wrestle With J2EE Application
Performance (61kB pdf), June 2004, by Jasmine Noel
The availability and performance of J2EE applications
is of primary concern to both business and IT executives because these applications
encapsulate the business logic behind many enterprise initiatives. Unfortunately
data from a recent survey of enterprises developing custom J2EE applications
conducted by Wily Technology indicates performance issues are a greater concern
than functional issues.
Wily Technology
is looking to fill the gap for devs and architects struggling for ways to pry
more visibility out of their J2EE-based integrated legacy networks. "A maturing
J2EE application architecture that supports applications, portals and [uses]
middleware to connect to legacy apps and databases simply needs higher levels
of performance and availability than can be secured out-of-the-box.," Mike
Malloy, Wily's vp of marketing told Integration Developer News. To begin to
address the problem, Wily is offering Wily 5, an upgraded app management platform
that includes enhancements to its Introscope line of PowerPack probes and components.
Wily Technology Ramps Up Its Channel, CRN, 19 May 2004, by Paula Rooney
Wily Technology is expanding its partner
ecosystem to accelerate adoption of its J2EE application platform performance
monitoring and management solution. The Brisbane, Calif.-based company this
week said it appointed CrossLogic, eBuilt, E2E Consulting, Haverstick Consulting,
Merlin Technical Solutions, Net2S, RFD & Associates and Selesta to its Wily
Business Partner Program.
Wily Technology's Introscope 5.0 has completed
the BEA Validation Program and is integrated with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.
Joint Wily and BEA customers can now easily integrate Introscope 5.0 with WebLogic.
Wily Technology helps companies successfully manage service-oriented architectures
by providing real-time visibility into the performance and availability of
critical Web applications and infrastructure systems in production environments.
Together, Wily and BEA can help customers build and deploy applications with
the highest levels of availability and manageability.
Wily Technology has extended its application
management tools to support Java applications running on HP NonStop servers.
Introscope 5.0, cornerstone of the Wily family of products for monitoring and
managing mission-critical applications, will enable HP customers to achieve
the highest levels of availability and performance for Java applications running
on HP NonStop servers.
It
Pays to be Wily, San Francisco Business Times, 14 May 2004, by Lizette Wilson
Wily Technology
continues to craft a cash-fat future with big-boy partners. The 6-year-old
company, which sells software analyzing glitches in Java applications, has
deepened its partnerships with IBM, BEA and Hewlett-Packard since the beginning
of the year. The arrangements, which include everything from product integration
to strong sales leads, mean the 180-person company is tracking to pump revenue
another 50 percent to 100 percent this year to as much as $48 million and turn
a profit by the fourth quarter of 2004.
Wily Technology's Introscope
alerted Northern Trust Corp. to a developers' error that could have slowed
the following day's reporting. Software developers at Northern Trust Corp.
earlier this year made a change in one of the bank's IBM DB2 database systems
that resulted in a performance slowdown that, if left unattended, could have
interrupted the bank's ability to produce a handful of reports.
Wily
5 Supports JBoss, ADTmag.com, 28 April 2004, by Jack Vaughn
By the time Lewis Cirne founded
Wily Technology in 1998, it was already clear that there were too many Java
application servers on the market. What was less clear was that these servers
were beginning to spread in corporations, and none of them came with much onboard
manageability. Developers that experienced that era may agree that in going
from development to deployment, Java apps might have lost a few beats in terms
of performance. But -- after some blame games between programmers and system
administrators -- best practices took hold, and some Java performance analyzers
came to the fore as well.
Wily Technology Inc. has
introduced seven extensions for IBM WebSphere to its flagship Introscope 5.0
software, which monitors the performance of a running Java application. The
extensions, called PowerPacks, can reveal whether an adapter from the IBM WebSphere
Business Integration set of middleware is acting as a bottleneck.
Java application management software
provider Wily Technologies Inc. this week is introducing a series of adapters
for IBM's WebSphere Business Integration and releasing version 5 of its flagship
Introscope app management product.The company also announced it is beginning "a
more formal relationship" with JBoss Inc., with CTO and founder Lewis Cirne
saying it will support the management of applications deployed on the open-source
JBoss application server.
A study conducted by Line56 Research
last year found that, across a broad sample of respondents, the average enterprise
with greater than $250 million in revenues fields an average of 121 Web applications.
Nearly 20 percent run more than 200, a figure that is expected to grow as Web
applications support a growing number of business processes It is in this environment
of heterogeneous application and infrastructure that Wily Technology makes
the case for robust application management in the ubiquitous J2EE realm.
Managing
Integration, Network World, 29 March 2004, by Denise Dubie
Wily Technology continues to
improve on its Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) products with the release
of Introscope 5.0 and the company's new PowerPacks for IBM Business Integration
Server. The software add-ons would let network and application managers see
into the "black hole" of performance regarding integrated applications. The
connections among, say, a PeopleSoft application server with an SAP server
that's integrated with an Oracle server, are difficult to manage. Wily's new
software opens a window into the integration server.
Wily Technology this week plans
to unveil software to let companies go beyond managing applications on an individual
basis by providing an in-depth view into how those programs interact. The add-ons
to Wily's flagship Introscope application performance management system are
designed for Java 2 Platfrom Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based programs linked
via IBM's WebSphere Business Integration software. The new software, dubbed
PowerPacks, sits on the Business Integration server and works with adapters
for Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel Systems applications and with adapters
for Java Database Connectivity, JText and HTTP.
Anyone who has ever encountered repeated error messages
while under the pressure of a deadline knows the meaning of frustration. However,
users aren't the only ones who get upset in such situations. The frustration
level is equally high for those individuals responsible for maintaining the
applications, especially when the application in question is cobbled together
from multiple systems and made available through a portal. Wily Technology,
which is best known for its application management offerings, hopes to solve
this with Wily Portal Manager 4.0.
Deploying
WebLogic on Linux. You are not alone. (760kB pdf), WebLogic Developers Journal, February 2004, by Eric Gudgion, Wily Professional
Services Engineer
The rising business trend toward using open source software
platforms has brought an increase in tne number of critical applications deployed
on Linus and BEA WebLogic. For many organizations, in fact, WebLogic deployments
are their first major Linux installation.
Companies deploying enterprise
portals now need a way to manage them. At least that's what Wily Technology
is betting with this week's release of software to monitor performance across
the multiple multiple applications that portals unite. Wily Portal Manager
builds on the company's Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application
performance management software by letting companies track the performance
of multiple applications and how they respond in the portal environment.
Wily Technology, an Enterprise Application Management
company, debuted Wily Portal Manager 4.0 for IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0, which
is a first-to-market portal management solution and the only enterprise portal
manager to exclusively support IBM WebSphere Portal customers.
The launch of Wily Portal Manager 4.0
builds on the company's strategic direction to manage the performance and availability
of next-generation, application platform suites that are being implemented
by leading enterprises today.
Europe
John Lewis gets Wily to Keep its e-commerce Web site
on form, Retail Week, 27 August 2004, by Andy Favell
John Lewis Partnership is monitoring its Web applications
using Wily Technology, to ensure that problems are identified
and fixed on the Web site before they happen. The technology
ensures that customers do not see anything go wrong on
the site. |
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