What's one of the biggest causes of downtime? Surprisingly, it's not power failures or server Overload. According to a recent Gartner study, 40 percent of service downtime is caused by application-related failures. And guess what - as application architecture and network design becomes more complex, so do the challenges involved in maintaining application performance. As a result, application performance management continues to grow in importance and complexity.

Network General has released a report, "True Visibility for Application Performance Management" that addresses a new class of solutions that provide a high-level view of business services with integrated network intelligence applications that correlate the complex interrelationships between IT components. Go here to download the report.