Guide
How to Manage IT Resource Consumption
At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management
In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...
Article
AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications
Tue, 03/08/2011
Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
Article
Optimize IT Services with a Capacity Management Information System (CMIS)
Sun, 01/30/2011
A good Capacity Management Information System (CMIS), combined with proven Capacity Management processes, can help you simplify IT Service Optimization; keeping your systems and applications running efficiently and reliably.
Blog
Why Your Business Needs Capacity Management: The Importance of Capacity Management
Fri, 01/28/2011
The modern CIO needs to be ahead of the game – anticipating the business’s needs and being able to meet them as they arise. All too often, however, the IT function is caught on the back foot, reacting to events after they’ve happened.
Article
Automate Version 8 - Extending Automation into the Cloud and Virtualization
Wed, 12/01/2010
We are pleased to announce the latest release of the Automate family of products - Version 8.0. This upgrade includes Automate Professional, Automate Premium, Automate BPA Server Standard and Automate BPA Server Enterprise.
Guide
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
Capacity Calculations: Handle with Care
This paper discusses avoiding calculation results that are more precise than is justified by precision of corresponding measurement input data.
Guide
How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results
This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.
Guide
UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works
In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide
UNIX Load Average Part 2: Not Your Average Average
This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.
Guide
UNIX Load Average: Reweighed
This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide
Evaluating Scalability Parameters: A Fitting End
This is the final online article concerning the concept of application scalability. Here, you will learn how to determine value of the parameters that control scalability.
Guide
How to Measure an Elephant
This article explains how correlated or bunched requests can impact capacity planning results.
Guide
Of Buses and Bunching: Strangeness in the Queue
This article explains how correlated or bunched requests can impact capacity planning results.
Guide
The “LA Triplets” Quiz
This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.
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.
Article
UNIX Load Average: An Addendum
By Neil J. Gunther on Fri, 02/05/2010
Clarifying the calc-load () function of the Linux kernel.
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...