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DETROIT, Nov. 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (CPWR) (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that Michael Kopp, a Technology Strategist for Compuware's application performance management (APM) business, will present a session titled: "Speeding Up Big Data Processing? Beyond Just Adding Hardware" at the QCon San Francisco 2012 Conference.

Session Title:  "Speeding Up Big Data Processing? Beyond Just Adding Hardware"  
When: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time: 2:50 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: QCon San Francisco 2012 Conference, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Why:
There are many Hadoop distributions, each promising faster processing than the next. Additionally, nearly every day a new NoSQL solution promises unprecedented performance.
What: During this session, attendees will learn:
  "  why performance is still driven by applications and users; and
  "  how to approach performance by going beyond just adding hardware or adjusting configuration knobs on big data solutions, to addressing the issue at its core.
Speaker:

Michael Kopp is a technology strategist in the Compuware APM center of excellence and has more than 10 years of experience as an architect and developer in the Java/JEE space. Additionally, Kopp specializes in architecture and performance of large-scale production deployments with a special focus on virtualization and cloud.

Compuware is a silver sponsor of the QCon San Francisco 2012 Conference and will exhibit there, November 7-9 at booth #18.

Compuware APM® is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market's only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chainfrom the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM helps customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.

With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring" report. To read more about Compuware's leadership in the APM market, click here.

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Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, makes technology make a difference by providing software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com .

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CONTACT: Press Contact
         Kayla Siefker, Senior Public Relations Manager
         Compuware APM Business Unit
         kayla.siefker@compuware.com, 313-227-1402

         Jackie Lucas, Warner Communications
         978-526-1960, Jackie@warnerpr.com

         For Sales and Marketing Information
         Compuware Corporation
         One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226
         800-521-9353, http://www.compuware.com
  

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Source: Compuware 2012 GlobeNewswire, Inc.