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• AppDynamics now provides intel for business managers

  Looking to expand into a new market, AppDynamics has updated its application monitoring software to provide real-time insights that can be useful for business managers as well as IT staff.

• LucidWorks preps Solr stack as Splunk killer

  Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more information from IT system logs.

• Novell goes large for ZENworks update

  Novell has expanded the scope of its Novell ZENWorks IT management suite so that it can watch over 100,000 devices or more with a single server.

• HP simplifies automated software testing suite

  Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components, previously available separately, into its HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automated testing application so developers can test all aspects of a multi-tiered application from a single interface.

• MapReduce could be the server's newest friend

  In the future, when an administrator does a server build, he or she may be adding a MapReduce library to the usual stack of server, database and middleware software.

• Precise virtualizes application monitoring

  In an effort to reduce deployment time, software provider Precise Software has packaged its flagship application performance management (APM) application in a virtual machine, making the product the first APM virtual appliance, the company said.

• Windows debugging made easy

  When it comes to debugging hard-to-diagnose software and operating-system problems, there is no set recipe. Rather debugging is all about "having the right tools and knowing how to use them," advised Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich at the close of the Microsoft TechEd conference, held this week in Atlanta.

• Webmasters face new site optimization challenges

  From the Web's early days, companies have struggled to make their sites faster, but the problem remains a thorny one, with new challenges emerging regularly as technology advances.