New Compuware White Paper Talks Up The Cloud

Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq: CPWR), the Detroit IT services and software provider, Tuesday announced the publication of a new white paper, prepared by the analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates, titled "Optimizing Cloud Computing to Support Application Delivery."

The paper examines key strategies to help ensure IT organizations' cloud investments work for and not against them.

Compuware will host a live Webcast on this topic Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Register at http://bit.ly/adg8Xm.

It's no secret that cloud computing -- with its promise of improved business agility and flexibility -- is becoming more prevalent by the day. Consequently, many IT organizations are looking to adopt a cloud strategy while IT leaders wrestle with the potential risks. To date, much of the debate around supporting cloud computing has focused on security. While this concern is real, an even more fundamental issue is often overlooked: How does cloud computing impact IT's ability to deliver its application without disrupting critical Service Level Agreements and other business requirements? Understanding the bridge between application management and cloud computing investments is critical to a successful cloud implementation. After all, IT's "products" are its applications.

This Compuware whitepaper provides insight about:

* the various faces of cloud computing, public and private, and how and why they are being adopted;
* critical performance requirements and technologies most relevant to cloud computing;
* guidance on how to get started with performance management strategies for assimilating cloud services; and
* Compuware's unified solution to monitor and manage performance inside and outside the firewall.

Download the whitepaper (registration required) at http://bit.ly/clOtt7.

Together, Compuware Vantage software and Compuware's Gomez Web application performance analysis division deliver the market's only application performance management system that provides broad visibility and deep-dive resolution across the entire application delivery chain, spanning both the enterprise and the Internet.

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