Comprehensive thought leadership for executives, IT professionals and developers. Topics include: the ROI, cost and economics of on-demand computing; Migration strategies to move from on-premise to cloud-based IT; Vertical cloud specialization, tailoring features and architectures to specific applications, industries, and customer ecosystems
Managing, Maintaining, and Growing Performance Management Architecture
Managing,
Maintaining, and Growing Performance Management Architecture
Today, if an application
is slow, users consider it unavailable. To offer services in this low
tolerance environment, performance and capacity must be monitored. Operations
should discover performance problems before users call the help desk.
Capacity must be added before utilizations impact performance. We consider
performance to include the end to end environment – from the user
back to the database, including the network. You’ll find a number
of process questions in this quiz because managing performance is mostly
about managing – it’s process.
Take our quiz below
to see where you stand in this process.
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Jeff Drew, Practice Director, Application and Systems Performance Brooke Stockton, Practice
Director, Network Operations & Infrastructure Management Aaron Meyers, Director of
Strategic Operations
Data deduplication is emerging as a critically important new arrow in the storage administrator's quiver to answer hard questions about the increasing problem in storage growth costs.
One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system.
Optimization is a fantastic way of saving money and creating really happy customers at the same time, but it doesn't work flawlessly for all applications.
This insight examines how organizations outsourcing their WAN optimization initiatives to a third-party go about achieving their goals for application performance, reducing operational costs, and streamlining enterprise infrastructure.
No-maintenance RAID arrays will deliver more efficiency and higher performance, and save money to boot by obviating expensive maintenance plans through built-in spares and other self-healing features. IT groups, especially those with remote locations, could save themselves a bundle by adopting this technology sooner rather than later.
Enterprises know they could wring more value from their enterprise content management system investments. Unfortunately, integration and interoperability are sticking points. In this Strategy Session report, we investigate whether Oasis' new open Content Management Integration Services standard could be the answer to these woes.
Enterprise content management deployments are fraught with dangers, such as weak search capabilities and poor requirements definitions, that can grind projects to a halt. This report helps CIOs and project leaders move beyond gridlock, choose the right tools and foster seamless integration.
Next Generation Data Center, Delivered, November 17th
