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Idera SQL diagnostic manager - SQL Server performance monitoring and alerting by Idera
end users are impacted. Product Type: SQL Server performance monitoring

Target User: Database Administrator

IT Problem:
Degradation in SQL Server performance has a noticeable and immediate impact on business productivity. Database administrators need to proactively manage their SQL Server environment by identifying and fixing issues before end users are impacted.

IT...
Halifax Bank of Scotland Uses Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Monitoring Tools to Help Manage its Ever-Expanding Storage Area Network (SAN) by Virtual Instruments
which took place in 2000. Lacking a proper SAN performance monitoring solution, the team was left to utilize an ineffective 'process of elimination' method to attack problematic areas.

In this case study you will learn how HBOS leveraged Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom SAN I/O performance and analysis solution to proactively isolate and resolve SAN issues as well as design optimal...
Monitoring the Virtual Environment - A Technical Perspective on ESX Server Health and Performance Monitoring by SolarWinds, Inc.
at monitoring ESX-based virtual environments and the unique challenges associated with them. Many organizations today are investing significantly in virtualization and are seeing both the benefits and challenges associated with these game changing technologies. Many organizations today are investing significantly in virtualization and are seeing...
Virtual Instruments - NetWisdom SAN I/O Intelligence by Virtual Instruments
NetWisdom solution is a Fibre Channel performance monitoring tool for SANs that helps organizations simplify SAN administration and ensure that SAN performance and availability are optimized. Read this Butler Group technology audit to discover the advantages of NetWisdom, explore core functionality, and learn about deployment. For many organizations, delivering...
Regaining Control of the Corporate Network to Ensure Business Processes by Blue Coat
how the ADN brings together Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to deliver the visibility, acceleration, and security that enables enterprises to align network resources with business goals. Most enterprises only know about half or less of the applications running on their corporate networks. Most are paying high...
Blue Coat Visibility by Blue Coat
an overview of challenges in monitoring and troubleshooting network performance issues in the diverse world of applications, and provides an overview of how Blue Coat helps you see traffic at the application level, track user performance, monitor voice and video quality, effectively troubleshoot and RESOLVE performance problems. This demo provides...
eGuide: A Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Performance, Disaster Recovery, and Backup by Microsoft
brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com and Microsoft, you will discover how to effectively manage performance and backup strategies for Hyper-V. Learn how your organization can monitor Hyper-V performance in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner. Effectively managing the performance, backup and disaster recovery of Microsoft Hyper-V technology...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
logical grouping of resources, fault isolation and performance monitoring across physical and virtual machines, and the ability to track in real time the migration of virtual resources between physical servers.

The CA infrastructure and performance management solutions allow organizations to reduce costs, increase IT efficiency and ensure quality of service within networks...
Ready to Act: 3 Recommendations for Agile Processes by IBM
the importance of process agility today and offers three recommendations for approaching enterprise-wide process improvement successfully. The next generation of business process optimization solutions features process agility: the ability to rapidly create, adjust, and optimize business processes. Beyond optimizing existing processes...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
logical grouping of resources, fault isolation and performance monitoring across physical and virtual machines, and the ability to track in real time the migration of virtual resources between physical servers...
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification by Hitachi Data Systems
management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with...
Tiered Storage Best Practices for File Archiving by Hitachi Data Systems
storage options are, learn how to save money on hardware, and discover how you can realize rapid ROI on a file-archiving implementation.

In this expert Videocast, archiving expert Greg Forest diagrams a typical file-archiving system and details the software and hardware components that comprise a file-archiving architecture, including primary storage and file shares...
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Family of Products by Virtual Instruments
to utilize in optimizing performance and availability. VirtualWisdom adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware™ deployments, enabling administrators to better balance deployment of virtual machines based on real-time measurements and feedback of I/O performance. VirtualWisdom results in significantly higher virtual infrastructure...
Business Process Management (BPM) - Leveraging Competencies and Streamlining Processes to Achieve Operational Excellence by IBM
suggests that BPM makes a substantial and speedy impact on a company's bottom line: More than half of respondents who conducted a return on investment (ROI) study achieved a positive ROI in three years or less. Read on to learn more. In developing this MarketIQ, AIIM found that sophisticated users grasp how EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), workflow...
Tap Aggregation and Filtering to Enable Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) by Gigamon
for the Data Access Network (DAN) architecture and saves substantial amounts of money for the telecom carrier. The weapon of choice for service-oriented network monitoring is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Typically, DPI is performed by high-performance software solutions that run on standard server hardware platforms, enabling providers to identify, classify...
Why VirtualWisdom When You Have Other Monitoring Tools? by Virtual Instruments
This white paper highlights the key benefits and unique features of Virtual Instruments' VirtualWisdom solution designed to identify and correct SAN infrastructure issues. Most IT managers have employed enterprise data center monitoring tools such as application monitoring tools, switch monitoring tools, host monitoring tools etc... all of which have...
Network and Voice Management for Evolving Business Environments by CA
tool for driving business innovation, and as demands for improved service performance and reduced downtime have escalated. CA eHealth provides the performance management solution that IT professionals need to monitor devices in their network and ensure quality of service. The software collects performance data and pinpoints service...
Nehalem EP Performance Technology Animation by Intel Corporation
Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series. Intelligent performance means being faster and smarter with your technology. The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series delivers up to 2.25x more performance over previous generation servers. This video highlights the features of the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series. Intelligent performance means being faster and smarter with your...
IDC Research: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Delivers Performance and Availability Reporting for IT Generalists by Hitachi Data Systems
become more complex, heterogeneous, and interconnected. It describes how integrated infrastructure performance and availability monitoring tools can help IT managers improve service levels and staff productivity. Hitachi's recently released IT Operations Analyzer offers IT generalists a high-level view into the status of server, storage, and...
BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels by BMC Software, Inc
BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization. Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. Most have invested in automating mainframe monitoring and have realized savings from it.

To control zSeries...
IDC Research: Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management by Virtual Instruments
Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring and analysis technology plays in reducing the cost and complexity of managing the datacenter cloud - and the large heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure within it. This document explores the role Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring and analysis technology plays in reducing the cost...
Becoming Proactive In Application Performance Management by Compuware Corporation
to assess the effectiveness of their processes and the technologies they employ. This paper has the results. Many IT organizations have now established effective monitoring systems for the various infrastructure domains in an enterprise-wide IT landscape: servers, storage, network, peripherals and desktops. The management of application performance...
Infrastructure Performance Management Empowers You and Your Company by CA
as well as your career. Infrastructure Performance Management monitors for variables that cross fixed thresholds or deviate from dynamically defined normal behavior, enabling action to prevent degradation that could adversely affect users or business processes. Beyond measuring utilization for CPUs, memory, storage, ports, LAN/WAN segments,...
Customer case studies using HP Business Availability Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems. In today's turbulent economic state it is important for organizations to closely monitor and manage business services, identify problems, resolve them quickly, and enhance performance and availability while operating as cost-effectively as...
High Availability and Replication for i5/OS (iSeries) and AIX by Vision Solutions
low cost isn’t everything. Your HA must be robust and reliable; it must be easy to use; it must deliver a fast ROI by reducing system maintenance downtime, and without exception it must get your business back online quickly if disaster strikes. iTera HA delivers the best of all worlds: robustness, reliability, and affordability in a proven, award-winning HA product. IBM...
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CICS and Web services: Ready to go by Robert Crawford, Contributor
other futures that were championed in the past), and CICS is at the forefront of support of the Web services menagerie. Here is a short overview of CICS/TS 3.1 Web services as I understand them.

What are Web services?
Web services support the exchange of information between disparate systems in various protocols over an IP network. The systems... More...

Using External Call Interface (EXCI) to access CICS by Robert Crawford, Contributor
to execute. This is joyful for workload distribution and performance tuning. Otherwise the programmer may omit TRANSID and CICS defaults to the mirror transaction CSMI.

The target CICS
EXCI requests can be routed to a server CICS explicitly or implicitly. To be explicit, a command interface program need only specify a valid APPLID in the command or Allocate... More...

Mainframe serviceability using SMP/E by Robert Crawford, Contributor
it does ensure each fix is applied in proper sequence and contains hold data to prevent bad maintenance from getting onto our systems.

There are two tricks to this: making sure the hold data is up to date; and being aware of any potential landmines. This column will show how to keep current hold data and an SMP/E report that flags the fixes you have to... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...