HERNDON, VA--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 7, 2007 -- Windward, the premier operational management consulting and systems engineering firm, today announced that InformationWeek kicked off its application performance management (APM) rolling review series with an introductory article by Michael Biddick, Windward's EVP of solutions. In this series, Mr. Biddick will lead a series of reviews that provide a comprehensive look at the latest APM offerings from over 15 vendors. The products will be tested in the Real-Worlds Lab at Windward Consulting Group, where they will be evaluated in areas such as application support, scalability, high availability, performance issue detection and integration. The kickoff article reviews the need for APM, covers a framework for holistic APM solutions and describes the approach to be used for the reviews. The article, "Market Analysis: Holistic Application Performance Management" is in the August 6th InformationWeek print edition and may be viewed at:
The Network Computing article may be viewed at: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070807/0287268.html
The article "Market Analysis: Holistic Application Performance Management" may be viewed at: Information Week
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Founded in 1997, Windward provides strategic management consulting and systems integration services to organizations that rely on their network and systems infrastructure as a key business asset. Windward takes a fresh look at organizational objectives and develops a strategy on which to build dynamic solutions that continually increase clients' return on investment, increase efficiencies and overall reliability, as well as reduce operational costs. Windward works with a diversified, global customer base consisting of Fortune 500 companies, service providers, and government agencies. For more information on Windward, please visit www.windwardcg.com or email solutions@windwardcg.com