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Presentation Transcript: The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center

Akorri — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

Presentation Transcript: Best Practices around How to Economically Boost System and ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this presentation transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

E-Book: Five Technology Trends for Improved Business Intelligence Performance

Sybase, Inc. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this E-Book, data warehousing and BI expert Rick Sherman explains how you can take advantage of BI trends to ensure that you get the right information to the right people at the right times, so they can make the best possible decisions.

High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs)

Adaptec, Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Built on Adaptec Unified Serial® (SATA/SAS) Series 5Z, Series 5 and Series 2 storage controller technology, High-performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) provide for maximum performance at the lowest capital investment and operating costs.

Using Performance Drivers to Enhance Business Success: Identifying, Visualizing and ...

myDIALS Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes.

Improve Operational Performance by Visualizing and Analyzing Relevant KPI and KPD Metrics: ...

myDIALS Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.

Podcast- The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center

Akorri — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This podcast details a strategy to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Get answers on how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

Increase Application Performance Up To 5X With Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution

Adaptec, Inc. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today’s data centers and cloud computing environments require increased I/O performance to support large-scale applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email. This whitepaper focuses on the performance benefits of using the Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution.

Addressing the Destructive Business Impact of Data Performance Problems

Syncsort — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper details non-disruptive strategies for eliminating performance problems in existing data integration environments.

Performance First: Performance & #45;based Network Management Keeps Organizations ...

NetQoS, Inc. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this whitepaper, you will learn about the current shift in focus from network availability to application performance and how a new management model, what NetQoS calls Performance First™, will empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance.

eBook: The New Era of Network Performance Management

SearchNetworking.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments that demand comprehensive performance management. Fortunately, technological advancement is simplifying management and addressing new challenges. This eBook explains why management is more important now than ever and how it can help deliver business-critical applications better and faster.

Presentation Transcript - Best Practices: Protect Your Online Revenue Through Web ...

Gomez — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This transcript will discuss optimizing application performance and quality, and various strategies that IDC sees in its research to help you improve your decision making about how you approach quality, management and performance optimization. Read on to learn more about how to protect your online revenue through web performance testing.

Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World

Gomez — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The browser wars bring fresh challenges for web designers and developers. This session enables you to understand JavaScript behavior and performance across browsers, as well as consider object load order differences.

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series - An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges

Insight & Intel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.

Maintaining High Performance in a Cloud

Platform Computing Corporation — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a cloud and show that HPC clouds can deliver the needed utilization and scalability on par with the current native HPC approach of designing dedicated systems for specific applications.

Best Practices: Protect Your Online Revenue Through Web Performance Testing

Gomez — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Tune in to this webcast to hear from an industry expert as she discusses drivers and best practices for effective web performance testing and quality life-cycle management for today's rich and complex applications.

Best Practices: Real-World Performance Testing and the “aha” Moment

Gomez — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Tune in to this podcast now for expert insight on the connection between web performance testing and the bottom line, and pointers and best practices for ensuring the success of your critical eBusiness initiatives.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere & #153; 4

Global Knowledge — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.

Proactive WAN planning: Meeting demands today, future-proofing for tomorrow

Blue Coat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.

The High Performance DBA: Optimizing Databases for High Performance

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them.

Presentation Transcript: High-Speed, Power-Efficient Deduplication: Saving Costs Without ...

FalconStor Software — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Nexsan and FalconStor have formed a strategic venture to deliver an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI. Read this presentation transcript to find out how you can minimize reliance on tape, reduce storage consumption and improve operational efficiency.

Presentation Transcript: What is End-to-End Application Performance Management?

Compuware Corporation — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

It's a top priority to keep your applications running and end users happy. Discover how application performance management can help you quickly dive into the root causes of problems, before they negatively affect your network and users.

Orion Network Performance Monitor

SolarWinds, Inc. — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Traditional framework solutions are expensive and tough to implement; are difficult to use, maintain and customize; and often impractical for network engineers in mid- to large-sized organizations. Network engineers need affordable, scalable network management solutions that provide immediate visibility into performance of the entire network.

Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM)

SolarWinds, Inc. — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Orion APM delivers at-a-glance top 10 lists, map views, and graphs that enable you to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues with business-critical applications. With Orion APM as your co-pilot, you can isolate performance issues before they affect your end users. Download this free trial to check it out for yourself.

Gaining the Performance Edge Using a Column-Oriented Database Management System

Sybase, Inc. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach.

Best Practices: Application Performance Management, Datacenter

Compuware Corporation — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How APM delivers true end-to-end application service for heterogeneous environments, including distributed and mainframe.

Best Practices: Application Performance Management, Overview

Compuware Corporation — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Discusses end-to-end APM as a process focusing on the key areas that impact overall service delivery: design, implementation and operations.

Red Hat and Intel: Moving Intelligence Forward

Red Hat — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Put state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.

Performance Optimization: Extending the IT Infrastructure

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle.

IBM & #174; Lotus & #174; Domino & #174; Server Performance on Red Hat & #174; Enterprise ...

Red Hat — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper gives a brief introduction to the Lotus Domino performance benchmarking concepts and methodology. It will also outline the detailed procedures for running the Server Load Utility with the N8Mail Workload. Finally, it presents the performance results of Lotus Domino Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for simulated workloads.

Embarcadero & #174; DB Optimizer & #153;

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Poor performing SQL code is costly in terms of dollars and customer satisfaction. Discovering performance bottlenecks once they're in production is costly.

Expert Tips for Virtual Infrastructure Management and Performance

VKernel — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Gain insight into the top 10 best practices for improving virtual machine performance, and explore a unique online virtualization community. Discover the ten essential virtual management tools, as well as what to consider when making a purchase decision.

eBook: Best Practices for DB2 on z/OS Performance

BMC Software, Inc — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This book contains general information about improving performance for DB2 on z/OS and specific information about how BMC products help improve performance.

Application Visibility and Monitoring: An Integrated Approach to Application Delivery

Blue Coat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

It's no secret that application performance drives business performance. But to achieve the level of application performance your business demands, you need total visibility into your network infrastructure so you can identify and monitor all your applications and resolve the issues that impede performance.

Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

Application Complexity Spurs Growth in Performance Validation Market

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

SOA, governance and application development are paramount to the growing application performance validation market. Read this white paper and learn how performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle management.

Presentation Transcript: How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this presentation transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with NAND Flash

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Best Practices around How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

PODCAST: Best Practices around How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance.

Becoming Proactive In Application Performance Management

Compuware Corporation — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Poor application performance results in significant financial losses for most companies. Find out why, and more importantly how to avoid these losses by moving toward proactive application performance management, in this research from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Compuware.

Performance Management Applications Overview

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits.

Performance Assurance Lifecycle for Virtual Infrastructures

VKernel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Read this paper to learn how the Performance Assurance Lifecycle eliminates performance and financial risks, taking the data center from 15-20 percent virtualized to 70-100 percent.

Capacity Analyzer: Optimize Capacity, Maximize Performance, Instant ROI

VKernel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems.

Spend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management

SAP America Inc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

Enterprise Performance Management & #45; Financial Excellence and Beyond

SAP America Inc — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.

A Guide to Diagnosing .Net Application Errors

AVIcode, Inc. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper offers a guide for effectively diagnosing .Net application health problems, code failures and performance bottlenecks.