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Sowing the seeds of performance monitoring


By David Worthington


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February 27, 2009 —  David is using open source to take on Goliath. On Tuesday, dynaTrace Software, a Java and .NET performance solution maker, launched a community portal where customers can share plug-ins.

The portal site also includes documentation and best practices, code samples, a knowledge base, and technology tutorials and training. However, the open-source plug-ins are the "big story," said Eric Senunas, senior director of marketing and communications at dynaTrace.

The plug-ins are built to the OSGi 3.0 specification, which provides a component model for the Java Virtual Machine to make Java more modular. The plug-ins work with the dynaTrace 3.0 server, which was released earlier this month.

dynaTrace 3.0 includes Eclipse-based tooling for developing plug-ins, and a deployment architecture for installing components locally or across geographically distributed systems.

Some plug-ins are performance monitors, sending alerts when thresholds are exceeded, while others are task schedulers, said senior performance architect Andreas Grabner.

While the plug-ins are licensed under the BSD license, the server product remains proprietary, Senunas noted.

"The strategy is to augment the complementary products without using resources that are developing the core product," said Jean-Pierre Garbani, a Forrester Research vice president. "In technology adoption, one of the obstacles to overcome is the need for these complementary inputs that, given the diversity of the market, are too numerous to be all developed and qualified by the core team."

He explained that dynaTrace is accomplishing two things by seeding open-source plug-ins: creating a framework that removes the need for complements; and using the integrations to sell its core product without incurring the cost of actually developing them. Having a community that can share plug-ins also removes an obstacle to adoption, he said.

"I see this approach as spreading more and more among the small vendors as a way to effectively compete against the larger ones, especially if the small vendors pool together in partnerships," Garbani observed. Other licensed software vendors, including NetIQ, Klocwork and Tideway have adopted a similar strategy.

Open-source plug-ins will help dynaTrace customers do more with less, said Senunas. "Customers want to get rid of commercial monitoring vendors. It is less expensive using open source."




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08/20/2010 06:52:52 PM EST

Dear Mr. Rubinstein: As a former Computer Hardware support engineer and Silicon Graphics Inc. IRIX Syatem Administrator for a flight simulation company from Texas, I feel there is a significant need to provide an industrial computing concept to software development. A SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system illustration is provided on Wikipedia's website. All aspects of industrial processes seems to be discussed here. Unfortunately, the Midwest and South Central regions of the United States seem to generally know very little about it's "monitoring" aspect. The "control" aspect of a SCADA system appear to have valid concerns regarding software security. I am currently self-educating myself on this topic as a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, my hometown. Could your editorial columnists in the future discuss SCADA system software development strategies for the 21st century? I enjoy reading your magazine and hope to hear from your staff regarding this matter. Sincerely, Daryl E. Burton 3622 Regatta Way Louisville, Kentucky 40211-1656 Tel No. (502) 776-6011 Email address: setun_5@yahoo.com

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