4 Overview of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor and Workload Simulator
1.1 Introduction
Ensuring robust systems performance and highly available computing services is
essential to maintaining customer satisfaction. In fact, exceptional systems
performance is a must-have business requirement for any IT initiative. In today's
highly distributed, on demand, multitiered, object-oriented environments, the
complexities of managing these systems has increased. Now that Java/J2EE is
no longer an experimental technology, but is mature and is adopted by world
class organizations, it has earned its stature as a core enterprise platform.
IBM recognizes that Java/J2EE, the WebSphere brand products, and other
zSeries-related software are the cornersto ...