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WHITE PAPER
Oracle and Java Performance Management
An Executive View
APRIL 2006
Confio Software www.confio.com +1-303-938-8282
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Executive Summary
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Uniting Oracle and Java Performance Analysis
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Instant Results; Instant Gratification
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About Confio Software
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2 ORACLE AND JAVA PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Executive Summary DELIVERING SERVICE LEVELS: Transaction systems are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. Once hidden from view with no direct access to the outside world, they have become the point of entry into your organization for virtually everyone with whom you have a business Time is the only relationship, including customers, suppliers and employees. meaningful measure of IT Your job is to deliver the service that internal and external customers demand, performance - how long do performance that is measured very simply, by the clock on the wall. Time is the only you keep your customers meaningful measure. It is also one that we all can agree on, whether we are a waiting? customer waiting for an order confirmation or a programmer waiting for our code to execute. . Meeting time-based performance targets is often the metric upon which Service Level Agreements, (SLAs), are based. No wonder then that avoiding the economic penalties often tied to these SLAs can easily become the overarching focus of your programming and operations staff. Clearly, failing to meet SLAs is not an option.
Performance Without Compromise
Yet, simply throwing money at the problem in the form of more servers, storage and software licenses is wasteful at best and a breach of fiduciary responsibility at worst. AVOIDING CAPITAL That is where Confio Software comes in. We built our technology and our company EXPENDITURES: on application performance management software that focuses on time. Monitoring Wait-Time from an end-user perspective across the entire database infrastructure reveals a comprehensive view of performance. By identifying where Wait-Time New applications and accumulates, users are in a position to quickly clear performance bottlenecks and increasing server workload stay ahead of service level targets. Confio's tools for managing transaction confronted a Wall Street environments enable you to consistently meet your SLAs without wasting money in the process. firm with a Hobsons choice: Upgrade servers The Case for Time-based Analysis from 4-way to 8-way and Confio developed Ignite for Oracle with a singular focus, to provide DBAs with rapid pay the attendant capital, and in-depth visibility into the true nature of performance bottlenecks and an licensing and maintenance immediate path to resolution. costs or risk costly SLA Confio starts the service optimization effort from the database layer, the source of violations. By installing 70 percent of end-user application delays. Tools to monitor system-wide statistics at Ignite for Oracle instead, it the database level have been available for years. But recently, Wait-Time based was able to obtain the analysis has emerged as the new industry best-practice for performance analysis. performance of the Confio uses Wait-Time to identify the specific steps, deep inside the database, that increased server capacity actually cause transaction delays. Confio is a pioneer in the category with its Ignite at one-fourteenth the cost. product for Oracle. Ignite for Oracle has helped countless database administrators quickly recognize and correct performance bottlenecks... [download for more]
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