Lexington, Massachusetts — April 28, 2008 — Gomez, Inc., a leader in web application experience management, has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors in AD, 2008,” April 3, 2008 report by Gartner, Inc. analysts Jim Duggan, Matt Light, and Thomas E. Murphy.

The “Cool Vendors in AD 2008” report states that “the business’s expectations of IT traditionally have outstripped the IT organization’s ability to deliver.” It highlights three vendors that “improve the match of delivery to expectations,” with a “cool’ approach to the specification and the quality delivery of complex projects.”. [More]

Los Angeles, California — April 28, 2008 — EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), today announced that it has partnered with Gomez, Inc., a leader in web application experience management. EdgeCast will now offer its customers a suite of independent tools to evaluate and measure the availability and performance of its content delivery network.

As a result of the partnership, EdgeCast will immediately offer the Gomez® ExperienceFirst℠ platform to existing and potential customers. These services will enable active “real world” monitoring and benchmarking of the EdgeCast CDN from the Gomez ExperienceFirst network of more than 150 globally-located Internet backbone nodes and 40,000 end user desktops at the “last mile”.. [More]

Gomez Grows Global Peer Network of Web Experience Monitoring Desktop Computers to 40,000

The Gomez Peer Community is the Industry’s Only Global Network for Website Experience Load Testing and Performance Monitoring at the Last Mile

Web 2.0 Expo (booth #211,) San Francisco, Calif. — April 22, 2008 — Gomez, Inc., a leader in web application experience management, today announced that its Peer community, a global network of desktop computers used to test and measure website performance at the “last mile,” has grown to 40,000.. [More]

Mu Co-Founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy to Present:
“Who’s Watching the Watch Dogs?”

Sunnyvale, Calif. - June 24, 2008 - Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, announced that Co-founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy will speak this week at the 20th Annual FIRST Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The presentation titled, “Who’s Watching the Watch Dogs? Automating Security Audits for Faster, Better and Less Expensive Results,” will be on Thursday, June 26 at 12:10 p.m.

Redwood City, Calif., April 10, 2008 — Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing technologies, announced today that The Pennsylvania State University, one of the 10 largest public universities in the United States, achieved 100 percent DHCP network service uptime for the fourth year in a row. DHCP plays a critical role in the delivery of converged IP services, and Nominum Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS) provides resilient, always-on IP addressing and connectivity for Penn State’s growing IP network that delivers VoIP, wireless and data services to. [More]

Javascript framework usage among top websites

Which Javascript frameworks are the most common?

To answer that question, we here at Pingdom have examined a set of almost 200 popular websites to see if they use a Javascript framework, and in that case which framework they have chosen. The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit.

We quickly saw that Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit were not used at all by these sites, which lead us to focus on the other four in this article.. [More]