Web Performance Webcasts On-Demand
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Moving to a Private Cloud? See the forest for the trees. Monitoring mission-critical applications in private virtualized environments |  |
| A growing number of IT organizations are turning to cloud to expand the reach while at the same time reduce the cost of their services. Many are discovering that the choices, complexities, and governance of cloud services can quickly become a puzzling labyrinth leading to unforeseen consequences. In fact, recent EMA research indicated that 70% of the IT organizations surveyed had to redo or rethink their cloud initiatives. This webinar looks at best practices behind successful cloud adoption with specific focus on practical monitoring solutions. Dennis Drogseth, VP, Enterprise Management Associates explores the growth drivers for private cloud and organizational dynamics. He provides guidance on mapping application complexity to cloud environments, as well as establishing metrics for effectively managing cloud services. Also hear from Ian Withrow, Senior Product Manager, Keynote Systems as he discusses key considerations for infrastructure changes like moving to a private cloud. Learn how a user perspective-based monitoring framework can support the success of your initiative. |
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| Presenter(s): Dennis Drogseth, VP of Research, Enterprise Management Associates and Ian Withrow, Sr. Product Manager, Keynote Systems | ||
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Banking’s Best Websites: Who is Leading the Way and Why | |
| In a recent study of online banks with over 10,000 participants, it was quite clear that some banks are doing a much better job in delivering what customers want from a banking website. What’s more, performance data shows us that some bank websites have better up-time and can complete a transaction much quicker. Watch this webcast to learn what banking customers really want and what makes some banks so much more effective at delivering a great user experience. Learn: Which banks are leading the way; why your website enhancements are getting different reactions; how banks can improve the customer experience; how to monitor the performance and availability of your Internet site and mobile content and applications; and which of your competitor’s online enhancement to emulate and which to ignore. | ||
| Presenter(s): Chris Musto, General Manager, Keynote Competitive Research and Financial Services, Keynote Systems and Ken Harker, Senior Consultant, Keynote Systems | ||
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Is 3rd-Party Content Crushing Your Website Performance? | |
| View this webcast to find out how 3rd party content may be affecting your website performance, and what you can do to quickly identify and fix performance problems before they impact your customers. This webcast discusses test cases that show the latency impact of 3rd-party content, how Cars.com is diagnosing website performance issues, and how to identify and monitor website slowdowns caused by 3rd-party content. | ||
| Presenter(s): Jeremiah Wilson, Sr. User Experience Manager, Cars.com and Dave Karow, Sr. Product Manager, Keynote Systems | ||
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Introduction to OPNET Technologies | |
| Learn about Keynote Open APM™, a great new way to integrate trusted Keynote External website measurements with the internal APM solution of your choice. In this webcast, we cover how Keynote and OPNET solutions enable IT teams to respond to performance issues with unprecedented speed. | ||
| Presenter(s): Brian Chau, Director, North America Field Solutions Consulting, and Bill Eastman, Director of Applications Engineering, OPNET Technologies | ||
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Self-Service Strategies for Load Testing Your Banking Web Site | |
| If Web sites have replaced the teller window for customer interaction, Load is the factor that determines how many windows can be opened at the same time. With every change you make to your Web site, understanding the impact on load is critical in optimizing your overall user experience. This webcast shows you tips and techniques for conducting self-service load tests, whenever and wherever you choose. This webcast is for banks of all sizes. | ||
| Presenter(s): Dave Karow, Product Manager, Keynote Systems | ||
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Optimizing Web Performance for SaaS Success | |
| If you deliver products or services through the Internet, the performance of your Web applications is critical to the success of your business. Fail to deliver on your SLAs due to a less-than-ideal end-user experience, and you'll lose revenue and suffer irreparable damage to your brand. Learn how you can optimize Web performance to deliver on your SLAs and build your brand's good reputation. Keynote's Web Performance Testing and Measurement Products can test, measure, and improve service levels, giving you a user's-eye view of how your e-business performs at the application, transaction, and infrastructure levels—all in real time. View this Webcast to learn how Web performance affects your business and how optimizing it sets you up for SaaS success. | ||
| Presenter(s): Robert Hughes, Keynote’s Global Director of Solutions Consulting | ||
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Making a Site and Checking it Twice: How Sephora Prepares Its Website for the Holiday Rush | |
| Find out how the Sephora Web operations team successfully prepares its site for holiday traffic. Learn how to minimize website abandonment due to slow and unavailable pages and transactions, what mistakes you may be making, when to web load test your retail site for the holidays, and much more. | ||
| Presenter(s): Melanie Lucas, Director, eCommerce Technology, Sephora, Dave Karow, Sr Product Manager, Internet Test and Measurement, Keynote and Harry Lister, VP, Stores | ||
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Holiday Readiness – Ensuring Peak Web Site Performance: How The Home Depot Web Operations Team Prepares for the Holidays |
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| Are you wondering if you have done all you can do to prepare your online shopping site for the holidays? Learn how The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, takes the guesswork out of holiday readiness with a tried and true performance management strategy. | ||
| Presenter(s): William Bonnell, Sr. Manager Online IT Operations, The Home Depot and Dave Karow, Sr. Product Manager, Keynote Systems | ||
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SIIA/Keynote Webcast: Improving Service Quality through Web Performance Monitoring | |
| Do you deliver your products or services through the Internet? Is the performance of your SaaS applications critical to the success of your business? Does not delivering on your SLAs mean lost revenue and irreparable damage to your brand? View this webcast and see this panel of industry experts deliver their critical insights to these and other important questions. | ||
| Moderator: Dave Karow, Senior Product Manager, Keynote Systems Panelists: Dave Wiggins, CTO, DocuVantage, Jason Muldoon, VP Product Development, InsideView and Vik Chaudhary, VP Product Management and Corporate Development, Keynote Systems |
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A World of Content on Every Web Site: Solving the Performance Challenges of Media, Entertainment, and Portal Sites | |
| For the average Internet user, a Web site is a single destination that delivers information or entertainment in various forms — video streams, photos, localized weather, feature stories. Providing a rich Web site experience today involves using content and components from 3rd parties such as ads, community forums or even blogs. In addition, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) host images and video, improving the overall load time of Web pages. But when Web performance issues arise, identifying the root cause quickly can be difficult. Watch this webcast and learn how it’s done. | ||
| Presenter(s): Paul Kohler, Product Marketing Manager, Keynote Systems and Eric Goldsmith, Operations Architect, AOL | ||
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How to Drive Growth, Monetize and Deliver A Superior End-User Quality with Streaming Media | |
| As the online video market continues to grow in size and sophistication, so increases the support demands across the medium's business segments. Watch this Webcast to get insights into the growth trends expected from 2009 to 2012. Explore category shifts, and hear how Keynote’s customers are guaranteeing a superior experience for their end-users. | ||
| Presenter(s): Palumbo, Research Director of Accustream, Scott Frost from BitGravity, Ken Vodicka, Senior Product Manager, Keynote Systems | ||
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E-commerce in Today's Economy: How Best Buy Uses Site Performance to Minimize Abandonment | |
| External factors wreaked havoc on the 2008 holiday forecasts. Leading indicators showed that online retail was not growing at the rate of the previous two years – but it was still growing. Now is not the time to economize on your retail website. This year, the focus is on retaining every shopper opportunity – and not providing any reason to click away from your site. View this webinar to hear how Best Buy, one of the largest multi-channel retailers, implements a proactive website strategy to prevent site slowdowns, shutdowns, and performance problems that could drive customers away, and how Keynote plays a critical role in helping Best Buy manage the online experience. | ||
| Presenter(s): Adam Sand, Senior Manager-Online Operations, Best Buy and Donald Foss, Director of Testing Services, Keynote Systems | ||
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Designing For and Managing Performance in the New Frontier of RIAs | |
| While the industry is buzzing about the promise of Rich Internet Applications and Cloud Computing, these new applications and methods for implementing compounds underlying complexity, presenting new challenges for Web and application developers as well as IT professionals. In this session, Ben Rushlo examines and discusses performance issues Web developers face as they look to develop Rich Internet Applications and utilize Cloud Computing. Rushlo covers how to combat these issues to minimize potential downfalls and ensure optimal performance through testing and monitoring. | ||
| Presenter(s): Ben Rushlo, Director of Web Performance Consulting | ||
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How to Build and Maintain High Performing Web Applications in the Web 2.0 Era | |
| Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX and Flash promise a strategic advantage and a radically different customer experience – Customer Experience 2.0. With rich interfaces, live data, and instant feedback, applications based on these technologies can be more engaging and productive than the static applications of the past. View this Webcast for best practices to ensure high performing Web 2.0 applications. Learn how to overcome the challenges of complex applications including AJAX and mash-ups. | ||
| Presenter(s): Ben Rushlo, Sr. Consulting Manager, Web Performance, Keynote Systems and Stan Gibson, Technology Host | ||
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User-Generated Video: What You Need to Know Before You Invest in the Game | |
| View this Webcsat to learn more about the industry's first real usage metrics and quality benchmarks for User-Generated Video (UGV) sites like YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, and more. Find out which companies are succeeding and how they are doing it. Gain insight on how technical factors such as connect time, buffer time, latency and availability affect video site performance. | ||
| Presenter(s): Paul Palumbo, Research Director, AccuStream, and Jeff Geiser, Global Director of Streaming Media, Keynote Systems | ||
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