Resources

Commercial Clusters and Scalability

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.

Guide

How to Write Application Performance Agents in TeamQuest Performance Software 7.2 or 8

TeamQuest (now Vityl Capacity Management) provides unintrusive mechanisms for instrumenting applications and analyzing application performance. Neil Gunther describes how to use those mechanisms.

Guide

Capacity Management for Telecom Companies in the Cloud: What You Need to Know

Article

IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights

By Per Bauer on Sat, 11/15/2008

Survey Says Chaos Reigns A global survey of more than 300 IT executives, directors and managers revealed that the majority of IT organizations (53%) rank in the chaotic level of IT Service Optimization maturity. That means these organizations lack a consistent process to manage and improve the quality and efficiency of their services and will continue firefighting performance and capacity issues...