Managing multi-tenant big data clusters is complex. Pepperdata partners with you to deliver predictable performance, empowered users, managed cost, and managed growth with proven big data APM.
Pepperdata delivers proven big data APM products, operational experience, and deep expertise.
PHILIPS WELLCENTIVE
“Before Pepperdata, we experimented with various approaches to solve our big data performance issues, but we couldn’t see deep enough into our Hadoop cluster. Platform Spotlight shined a bright light into our Hadoop cluster and provided detailed data that helped us isolate and resolve the problem.”
RUBICON PROJECT
“At Rubicon Project, having the appropriate visibility and insight into our big data applications is extremely important when delivering detailed reports to our clients and meeting our SLA. We challenged Pepperdata to find a solution to profile our applications before going to production that would help us maintain our SLA to our customers as we introduce new applications. Pepperdata listened to us and quickly understood the problem we were trying to address.”
CHARTBOOST
“Chartboost is the world’s largest mobile games-only advertising platform, reaching one billion active players around the world every month. Chartboost utilizes Apache Spark on large Amazon EC2 Hadoop clusters for machine learning and ETL workflows. Understanding Spark application performance in these complex environments is always a challenge. As a current user of Pepperdata Platform Spotlight, it has been great to work with Pepperdata on the development of the Application Spotlight self-service portal software. It will give us a comprehensive insight into Spark jobs.”
EXPEDIA
“The level of support and expertise that we receive from the Pepperdata team made a big difference to us. Pepperdata worked closely with us on our Platform Spotlight implementation to ensure success on our big data cluster. With Pepperdata capacity optimization, the DevOps team runs more jobs, faster. We’ve seen a big performance boost across the cluster and have a much more efficient data footprint. Using the Pepperdata dashboard to see application-level metrics, unique custom views, resource utilization per workload drill-downs, and hardware utilization by various workgroups has significantly improved the way that we manage and troubleshoot big data cluster performance issues.”
See who’s using Pepperdata big data APM solutions to achieve predictable performance, empower users, and to manage cost and growth for their big data investment.
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Request a trial to see firsthand how Pepperdata big data solutions can help you achieve big data performance success. Pepperdata’s proven APM solutions provide a 360° degree view of both your platform and applications, with realtime tuning, recommendations, and alerting. See and understand how Pepperdata big data performance solutions helps you to quickly pinpoint and resolve big data performance bottlenecks. See for yourself why Pepperdata’s big data APM solutions are used to manage performance on over 30K Hadoop production clusters.
360° Reports Empower Executives to Better Understand Financial Impacts of Operational Decisions
CUPERTINO, Calif. — February 19, 2019 — Pepperdata, the leader in big data Application Performance Management (APM), today announced the availability of 360° Reports for Platform Spotlight. Pepperdata 360° Reports leverage the vast amount of proprietary data collected and correlated by Pepperdata to give executives capacity utilization insights so they better understand the financial impacts of operational decisions.
“Pepperdata 360° Reports demonstrate the power of data and the valuable insights Pepperdata provides, enabling enterprises to make more informed and effective operational decisions,” said Ash Munshi, Pepperdata CEO. “Operators get a better understanding of what and where they’re spending, where waste can be reclaimed, and where policy and resource adjustments can be made to save money, maximize capacity and improve application performance.”
360° Reports for Pepperdata Platform Spotlight include:
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Pepperdata 360° Reports are available immediately for Pepperdata Platform Spotlight customers. For a free trial of Pepperdata, visit https://www.pepperdata.com/trial.
About Pepperdata
Pepperdata (https://pepperdata.com) is the leader in big data Application Performance Management (APM) solutions and services, solving application and infrastructure issues throughout the stack for developers and operations managers. The company partners with its customers to provide proven products, operational experience, and deep expertise to deliver predictable performance, empowered users, managed costs and managed growth for their big data investments, both on-premise and in the cloud. Leading companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Pepperdata has attracted executive and engineering talent from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. Pepperdata investors include Citi Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Data Capital and Wing Venture Capital, along with leading high-profile individual investors. For more information, visit www.pepperdata.com.
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Sample Capacity Optimizer Report – memory and money saved with Capacity Optimizer
Pepperdata Application Spotlight Free for Enterprises with a Single Cluster with Up to 20 Nodes
NEW YORK — January 8, 2019 — Pepperdata, the leader in big data Application Performance Management (APM), today announced a free version of Application Spotlight™ for enterprises for use in a single cluster with up to 20 nodes.
Pepperdata Application Spotlight is a self-service APM solution that provides developers with a holistic and real-time view of their applications in the context of the entire big data cluster, allowing them to quickly identify and fix problems (failed Spark applications, for instance) to improve application runtime, predictability, performance and efficiency. Pepperdata Application Spotlight also provides automatic tuning for applications, delivers job-specific recommendations, and enables users to set up alerts on specific behaviors and outcomes to avoid the risk of failure.
“This free offering gives developers a powerful introduction to the robust capabilities of Pepperdata,” said Ash Munshi, Pepperdata CEO. “Application Spotlight gives them self-service access to all the data on their applications in one place so they can determine whether performance issues were caused by their application or other applications running on the cluster.”
With Pepperdata Application Spotlight, developers can:
Availability
Application Spotlight is available immediately for free for use in a single cluster with up to 20 nodes by visiting www.pepperdata.com/free-enterprise-apm.
About Pepperdata
Pepperdata (https://pepperdata.com) is the leader in big data Application Performance Management solutions and services, solving application and infrastructure issues throughout the stack for developers and operations managers. The company partners with its customers to provide proven products, operational experience, and deep expertise to deliver predictable performance, empowered users, managed costs and managed growth for their big data investments, both on-premise and in the cloud. Leading companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Pepperdata has attracted executive and engineering talent from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. Pepperdata investors include Citi Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Data Capital and Wing Venture Capital, along with leading high-profile individual investors. For more information, visit www.pepperdata.com.
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Pepperdata and the Pepperdata logo are registered trademarks of Pepperdata. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Extensive Enterprise Reporting Capabilities for Application Spotlight and Platform Spotlight and Expanded Professional Services Unveiled at Strata Data NYC
NEW YORK — September 11, 2018 (Strata Data New York 2018, Booth 741) — Pepperdata, the leader in Application Performance Management (APM) for big data success, announced enterprise-grade features to its APM suite that include auto-tuning, enhanced recommendations, and management and operational reporting, powered by an easy-to-use self-service interface. The company also announced professional services offerings that include best-practices, performance planning, capacity planning, and architecture design for big data success.
The company’s new professional services are directly enabled by the vast amount of metrics — 600 trillion data points every year — that Pepperdata collects from tens of thousands of nodes every few seconds. This data provides unique insight into all aspects of operationalizing big data applications. Pepperdata is unique in its ability to deliver not only enterprise-grade software, but also expertise, experience and knowledge that ensures big data success.
“Customers are demanding more than features and function from us — they’re asking us to become partners in making sure their big data investments yield business results,” said Ashfaq Munshi, Pepperdata CEO. “We are the only company offering expert services along with a solution delivering instantaneous time-series data that provides precise insight relevant to enterprise platforms and applications.”
Proven Products
The Pepperdata APM suite — comprised of Platform Spotlight and Application Spotlight — enables tight collaboration between developers and operators, improves overall efficiency and performance, and enables enterprises to do more with their existing big data investments.
Platform Spotlight provides infrastructure and capacity managers with:
Application Spotlight provides developers with:
Operational Experience and Deep Expertise
Pepperdata continuously monitors over 250 production clusters across its customer base — over 30,000 nodes across all Big Data distributions and hardware configurations — for a total 550 million jobs and 600 trillion data points every year. Coupled with its success serving Fortune 100 customers, this uniquely broad set of data empowers Pepperdata to help customers:
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About Pepperdata
Pepperdata is the leader in Application Performance Management solutions and services for big data success, solving application and platform issues throughout the stack for developers as well as capacity and infrastructure managers. The company partners with its customers to provide proven products, operational experience, and deep expertise to deliver predictable performance, empowered users, managed costs and managed growth for their big data investments, both on-premise and in the cloud. Leading companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Pepperdata has attracted executive and engineering talent from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. Pepperdata investors include Costanoa Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Data Capital and Wing Venture Capital, along with leading high-profile individual investors. For more information, visit www.pepperdata.com.
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With tight margins and increased competition, savvy online retailers are leveraging big data in ways that set them apart from the competition. It’s the only way to move forward in this data-driven world. When done right, big data can be leveraged by retailers to make more sales, enhance forecasting, refine supply chain efficiency, improve inventory management, and reduce costs. Let’s look at some of the effective big data use cases for retail. The one thing they all have in common is the need to ensure performance and reliability.
To ensure system availability for predictive analytics, retailers need a performance management solution that monitors the entire environment — the infrastructure as well as the applications. Pepperdata’s unified solution combines application performance management (APM) and infrastructure performance management (IPM) into a single, comprehensive platform to ensure uptime. Driven by AI and machine learning, Pepperdata continuously learns, identifying and addressing abnormalities in infrastructure and analytics application behavior to automatically detect and prevent performance roadblocks.
Pepperdata helps retailers optimize their applications and ensure they know what’s going on in their mission-critical systems. Only Pepperdata can correlate infrastructure and application event data to determine the root cause of an application slowdown and automatically tunes resources for optimum performance.
Contact sales@pepperdata.com today and learn how we can help.
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For enterprises leveraging big data to stay competitive, Application Performance Management (APM) is crucial. An effective APM solution maintains expected levels of application services by detecting, identifying and diagnosing complex application performance problems. But APM solutions can only deliver a return on investment (ROI) if used to their full potential.
The following are 8 ROI elements to consider when evaluating APM solutions.
We highlighted the first six benefits APM delivers for ROI previously In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2). Today, we’ll finish up by highlighting the last two.
In today’s increasingly complex technological environment, pinpointing the root cause of an outage or slowdown is like looking for a needle in a haystack, while revenue during the search takes a hit. If you don’t have all the necessary data, it’s impossible to identify exactly where the problem is. A modern APM platform can accelerate the search by zeroing in on the problem quickly, using data captured from the infrastructure as well as all of the applications running on it. Not all APM solutions provide both types of data.
Pepperdata takes a holistic approach by looking at your applications and how they interact within the context of your big data infrastructure. Then we provide you with a real-time view of your cluster and provide context-aware recommendations to optimize your applications and infrastructure. This unified approach to big data performance management reduces MTTR. Pepperdata offers the most flexible, powerful, and rigorous set of performance metrics in the industry to speed up troubleshooting and improve uptime.
Remember: To your internal and external customers, the only performance that matters is the performance of the application they’re using. It’s where the rubber meets the road. This customer-centric mindset is baked into Pepperdata’s DNA.
Pepperdata offers a broadly deployable unified performance management solution that eliminates guesswork. By instrumenting all of the nodes on your infrastructure, Pepperdata provides you with visibility into how the infrastructure and applications are performing so you can enhance customer satisfaction. With the data Pepperdata collects, unique data that enables you to quickly diagnose application performance issues up to 90% faster, you get a 360° single pane of glass view of your environment with customer-centric performance insight on both.
Fine-tune your big data applications by understanding exactly what CPU and memory resources it requested, what it needs, what it used, and what it wasted. Identify the impact queue congestion, hardware bottlenecks and failures have on your big data application performance. Leverage all eight ROI benefits with Pepperdata.
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There’s no doubt that APM is an essential part of the IT toolbox. By detecting and diagnosing complex infrastructure issues and translating metrics into valuable insights, APM solutions improve MTTR, inform product development and customer service, and bolster the bottom line. In part 1, we identified eight ROI benefits of APM:
We highlighted the first few financial and non-financial benefits APM delivers for ROI last week, and today, we’ll highlight benefits 4-6.
The challenge is to discover application problems during development or QA to limit time and costs associated with fixing them. According to the Systems Sciences Institute at IBM (emphasis my own), “the cost to fix an error found after product release was four to five times as much as one uncovered during design, and up to 100 times more than one identified in the maintenance phase.” In addition to added costs, catching errors late multiplies issues since bugs can have a cascading effect, overwhelming support teams and damaging reputations.
Pepperdata automatically tunes repetitive applications for resource efficiency and continues to make improvements on an ongoing basis to improve runtime. With real-time data from applications and cluster resources, developers can make accurate decisions about application configuration to prevent problems and improve performance.
IT organizations today are tasked with managing growth and costs carefully, optimizing existing resources and buying only when needed. Developers and operators must align to reduce costs through optimization.
Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer leverages active resource management features in Hadoop to dynamically tune cluster resources and eliminate inefficiencies.
With Capacity Optimizer, travel services leader Expedia increases capacity utilization by 30-50 percent without adding hardware, saving thousands of dollars and increasing cluster productivity.
SLA breaches can negatively impact sales, support, reputation and renewals. Critical operational environments that have near-zero tolerance for downtime, like healthcare, understandably have aggressive SLAs, and there are serious penalties if they’re breached Platform Spotlight enables operators to manage and troubleshoot performance issues to ensure these stringent SLA requirements are achieved.
To overcome performance issues and the risk of breached SLA related to processing over three billion medical records daily, Philips Wellcentive deployed Pepperdata Platform Spotlight and Capacity Optimizer to automatically improve capacity utilization. The result was increased throughput, which meant jobs completed on time and SLAs were met.
With benefits for both application development and infrastructure teams, Pepperdata provides organizations with an integrated “single-pane-of-glass” that correlates application and infrastructure performance and delivers operational efficiencies that multiple, disparate tools cannot.
In the final part of this blog series, we’ll cover the last two of the eight benefits mentioned earlier.
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