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• Lessons from Tax Day 2015: How the tax sites fared

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Concurrent Offers Performance Management for Big Data Applications

  The primary sponsor of the open source Cascading application framework for big data has unveiled Driven, a big data application performance management product for developers and dev ops.

• Smart ADCs ensure app performance regardless of the access device and network used

  With the increasing use of Web applications from mobile devices and the variety of devices accessing applications through different types of networks, a new approach to application delivery optimization is required.

• Fluke rolls application performance and network monitoring into 1 box

  Fluke Networks is announcing an appliance called Visual TruView at Cisco Live today that combines network and application performance management into a single rack-mounted unit.

• Lonely Planet embraces digital amid disruption in publishing

  Lonely Planet had to quickly adapt to a digital world to stay relevant as a publisher of travel guides. Known for physical books, the company overhauled its Web presence and publishing processes to meet consumer demand for real-time and mobile tourist information, according to Lonely Planet online platform manager, Darragh Kennedy.

• Startup claims it saw early signs of Amazon's cloud outage

  Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem.

• 5 reasons to avoid agents for application performance management

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• UTS deploys application monitoring

  The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has deployed an end-to-end application monitoring solution across its production, test and disaster recovery data centres.

• SaaS dashboard good for Plan B

  Perth-based wealth advisory firm Plan B has implemented a performance management application in the cloud to deliver a snapshot of key performance indicators.

• App performance '1.0' bad for cloud, SOA: exec

  The founder and CEO of an application performance management (APM) software vendor said that today's IT development and production environments are not adequately served by what he terms "APM 1.0."