CA Releases Wily Introscope for Microsoft .NET

This whole web site is about the fact that despite the billions spent on Systems Management and Applications Performance Management, knowing that a user is having a problem with an application, and then knowing how to fix remains a largely unsolved problem. For the last few years, Wily Technology (now part of CA) has lead the market for addressing this problem with high-end production J2EE based applications.

Wily has now announced that they have extended support in their market leading Introscope product to Microsoft .Net based applications. The detail is that Wily ported the agent that runs inside of the J2EE applications server to C#, and did the remaining steps necessary to allow that agent to manage .Net applications as well as the Java agent manages J2EE applications. The .Net agent also leverages the rest of the Introscope product line. This will prove to be a boon for customers who have both J2EE based applications and .Net applications (or applications that are comprised of some of each environment), as it will allow for a common way of measuring performance, tracing transactions, and performing root cause analysis.

What this new release does not do (and does not claim to do) is solve the APM problem for the general case of Windows applications no matter how they are developed. This remains a really hard (and probably impossible) problem to solve since there have been and continue to be so many different ways to build and deploy Windows applications.

Bernd Harzog
CEO
APM Experts
bernd.harzog@apmexperts.com