Compuware Releases PureStack Analytics For Infrastructure and End User

Compuware announced the release of PureStack, what it is calling the next generation of Application Performance Management (APM). Purestack correlates guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transaction and affected end users in real-time. It allows application operators to quickly gauge the impact of infrastructure problems for both infrastructure and end users in order to expose how IT infrastructure conditions impede the performance of critical business applications.

“We’ve connected application monitoring and the infrastructure health into a single correlated view,” said Kieran Taylor, Director of Product Marketing. “Historically, monitoring application and infrastructure required two different sets of tools, this is a single pane of glass”

PureStack compliments Purepath in that a user is now able to go down into infrastructure health metrics. Combined with Compuware’s dynaTrace PurePath Technology, PureStack Technology directly correlates guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transactions and affected end users in real-time. “With the current set of tools on the market, they’re siloed,” said Taylor. “In the case of infrastructure monitoring solutions, they look at infrastructure in a high level way. They don’t break down on a per user or per transaction kind of way.”

“With PureStack, Compuware is significantly extending the depth and range of its APM solutions,” said Tim Grieser, Program Vice President of Enterprise System Management Software at IDC. “Real-time cross-correlation of end-to-end transaction details with system and application health metrics, improves both the ability to understand the business impact of performance issues on end-users and provides extended information for faster root cause analysis.”

PureStack Technology automatically discovers, maps and collects critical system and infrastructure health information along the infrastructure “stack” including hypervisor, operating system, storage, process and CPU. This infrastructure health information is tied directly to each PurePath, which contains cross tier transaction detail, including end-user and code-level context. Together, PureStack and PurePath provide a three-dimensional view of how infrastructure health impacts application performance and availability.

“When evaluating cloud providers, understanding how the virtual infrastructure affects application performance is critical,” said David Snyder, Enterprise Architect at American Greetings Interactive.  “The PureStack technology is a huge time-saver, offering a single view for all the data we need to monitor these less predictable environments and deliver a great experience for our customers.”

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“While our competitors struggle to get beyond their sampling and averaging constraints to catch up to our industry-leading PurePath Technology, we have innovated again with PureStack,” said Bernd Greifeneder, CTO of Compuware’s APM business unit. “By combining these two powerful technologies, we now provide the industry’s first 3D application and infrastructure topology model with the exact link between every transaction and its guest and host infrastructure. IT application management analytics will never be the same again.”