Since the initial delivery of the .NET Framework from Microsoft in 2002, .NET technology adoption has occurred at a rapid pace. .NET technologies are being utilised for customer facing, revenue generating applications as well as internal applications that are critical to business operations. These applications have become more distributed in nature, which increases management complexity.

In this environment of continuous change and increasing application complexity, IT organisations struggle to meet, much less exceed, application performance and availability service levels. To aid in the response of .NET application management challenges, this technical brief discusses how IT organisations can gain control of their business critical .NET applications.