INTEROP LAS VEGAS, — May 01, 2006 — Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), the worldwide leader in services that improve online business performance and communications technologies, will have a major presence at this year's Interop Las Vegas. Keynote will showcase in its booth the industry's latest Web 2.0 products for measuring, managing and improving application performance including recently announced services such as Application Perspective 4.0, Voice Perspective and Mobile Application Perspective. Press and analysts are encouraged to visit Keynote in its booth #467. Additionally, Chris Loosley, senior director of service level management technologies at Keynote, will make feature presentations at both Application Performance Day being held today and at the inaugural WebOps Summit occurring on May 3rd.
Mr. Loosley will appear on today's Application Performance Day "Measurement Panel" beginning at 11:15 a.m. till noon. At the WebOps Summit on Wednesday, May 3rd, Mr. Loosley will give a talk from 1:20 p.m. till 1:55 p.m. entitled "Active Monitoring Best Practices" that draws upon his decade of experience working with Global 2000 companies to manage service levels effectively. Service level management starts with the fundamental notion that you cannot manage what you do not measure. Active monitoring - - or synthetic monitoring — is a powerful means to identify, triage and diagnose Web application reliability and responsiveness. Mr. Loosley will describe the key differences between active and passive monitoring and a best practices approach for implementing active monitoring for Web applications. Both events will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center
About Application Performance Day at Interop Las Vegas 2006 (Occurs May 1st)
Businesses depend on applications that run over networks, and poorly performing applications hurt business. Most performance problems surface only after an application is unleashed onto a wide area network - and by then it's too late to fix the application itself. Fortunately a growing number of products and services speed up, off-load resources, add security, and otherwise make applications work better without changing the application or annoying the user. Applications and networks that impair performance and techniques to mitigate those problems will be described. A solution selection methodology will be presented and a methodology for integrating performance into system management to streamline operations and support your operations and business objectives will be described.
About Webops Summit at Interop Las Vegas 2006 (May 3rd from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.)
Look in any modern data center or a mission-critical network operations center (NOC) and you'll find a new breed of operations specialist that's both Web-savvy and network-fluent. Someone who's as at home with URLs and applications as they are with packets and throughput. They're part of a vital new IT discipline - Web operations - and you may already be one of them. WebOps deals with the performance, availability, scalability and security of Web-based application. It spans both big, pubic Internet sites and the internal, Web-based intranet. And it looks at the application lifecycle, from design and deployment to monitoring, repairing and reporting. The WebOps Summit brings together technology leaders and hands-on Web experts for a half-day of updates and thought-provoking discussion.
About Keynote
Founded in 1995, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN") is the worldwide leader in services that improve online business performance and communications technologies. Keynote helps approximately 2,300 corporate customers and 11,000 individual subscribers become "the best of the best" online. The business premise supporting Keynote's mission is: "Online businesses can't manage what they don't measure." As an independent and trusted third-party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with unbiased benchmarking data, competitive analysis and operational metrics from the customer perspective. This data measures service levels and customer experience of Web sites, broadband services and mobile communications.
Known as The Internet Performance Authority®, Keynote manages a market-leading infrastructure of 1,600+ measurement computers and mobile devices in over 114 locations and 66+ metropolitan areas worldwide that assess service levels and a panel of over 160,000 consumers who participate in interactive Web site tests that assess user experience. These online user experience tests capture customer attitude and behavior to answer the critical "why" behind the "what." Keynote's geographically distributed measurement services, on-site monitoring appliances, competitive intelligence and custom studies ensure that its customers outpace their competitors in online service levels and overall user experience.
Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority and Perspective are registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2006 Keynote Systems, Inc.
Editorial Contact:
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote, (650) 403-3305 dan.berkowitz@keynote.com