Gomez First Mile can help companies find the root cause of Web performance problems Compuware is offering this week a hardware appliance to monitor Web applications both inside and outside of a user site’s data center.Compuware’s Gomez First Mile appliance plugs into a network. Organizations can identify and resolve Web application performance problems.“It looks at real user traffic across the network, and then it feeds that data back into the Gomez platform so you get a picture of application performance across the entire delivery chain,” said Rich Bentley, director of solutions marketing at Compuware. Gomez First Mile is managed through the Gomez SaaS (software as a service) portal. Leveraging Compuware’s Vantage technology for application performance management, Gomez First Mile can quantify business impacts and isolate root causes of Web performance issues, Compuware said. Organizations whose business depends on Web applications can determine if a problem resides in the data center, on the Internet, with a third-party provider, or within a user’s browser or device.Vantage, meanwhile, offers deeper analysis of a data center than Gomez. Vantage can assess internal applications. Compuware this week also is announcing Vantage 11.5, which adds the ability to monitor virtualized systems.“What we’ve done is we’ve provided visibility into [a] virtual environment as part of your overall APM solution,” Bentley said. Version 11.5 also features application performance visibility into WAN-optimized environments.Gomez First Mile is shipping now, while Vantage 11.5 is set to ship on October 20.This article, “Compuware rolls out Web traffic analysis appliance,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Technology Industry