Business View - February 2016 51
TECHNOLOGY
mance. If the demand gets what it needs from a sup-
ply perspective, then you’re going to be able to meet
your performance goals. But when you’re not able to
match that demand to your supply, and you are just
guessing at application demand, you’ll have some ap-
plications that are starving and some that are overfed.
This ultimately leads to slower performance in a busi-
ness’ most critical applications that cannot afford to
be slow. It’s said that ‘slow is the new down.’ If you
have an application that’s running slow, you’re going
to lose people on your website because they’re not go-
ing to wait for your application to run and you’re losing
dollars in the meantime.”
She continues: “Businesses want to have highly per-
forming applications. Before VMTurbo, if something
wasn’t performing
well, the IT admin-
istrator would get
an alert, decide
if it was worth re-
sponding to and if
so, drill down man-
ually to figure out
what to do next.
But by the time
you have an alert
on something that
isn’t working, it’s already too late. Either your perfor-
mance is degraded in the system, or something isn’t
working as it should. VMTurbo is an application per-
formance control system; what makes it unique is its
