AppDynamics Makes Application Management Free

According to AppDynamics CEO Jyoti Bansal, AppDynamics Lite is not only intended to gain more visibility for the product among companies already using application management software, but to also help expand the overall size of the market.

As noted by Bansal, one of the things that has held up adoption of application management software has been the complexity associated with first deploying these types of management applications and then managing them on an ongoing basis.

AppDynamics Lite, said Bansal, will provide 80 percent of the functionality found in most application management systems in the free version, which should entice customers that still need a more robust management platform to upgrade to the commercial version of AppDynamics.

According to Bansal, AppDynamics is the first application performance management tool designed specifically to meet the challenges associated with managing applications running on modern distributed networks based on service-oriented architectures that will span public and private cloud computing platforms.

Company officials claim that their software can discover application performance issues within two minutes of installation and diagnose the root cause of those problems within 15 minutes.