New Relic Now Tracks Fastest Apps & Industries, Lets You Compare Your Speed To The Competition

New Relic, one of a number of startups that have emerged in the last 5 years to address the costly, patchwork BS of old-school enterprise monitoring solutions, gives developers an easy, cloud-based way to keep tabs on their apps in realtime -- without breaking the bank. Of course, while any old monitoring and analytics service might bring that measurable 5 to 10 percent performance boost, what does it matter if your apps are still tortoises compared to your competitors? Today, New Relic is launching a tool that aims to give businesses some of that comparative insight, report card-style. The App Speed Index shows New Relic users how their performance compares to that of 25,000 other companies -- in 14 industry-specific categories -- to help them avoid losing millions to the speedier competition.

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