Unified Performance Management
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[edit] Unified Performance Management
Unified Performance Management (UPM) is defined as the application of all available, “mainstream” WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration methodologies and technologies for IP based Wide Area Networks (WANs), in a single platform and with a single management interface, which has been made universally available to the market through both the technical aspects as well as through application of appropriate commercial parameters.
UPM systems are designed to accelerate applications on the network, measure application response times, manage applications at layer 7 and report on system wide application usage on a unified platform.
A single appliance providing Application Acceleration, Protocol Optimization, Caching & Data Compression, Application (Layer 7) Monitoring, Traffic Shaping / QoS, Application Specific Monitoring (ASAM - VoIP, Citrix, URL), Service Level Management (network & application), and Reporting & Notifications.
The UPM definition was first created by Exinda Networks in 2006.
