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Wait-Time Analysis: A New Best Practice for Performance Management

Overview Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement that allows users to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact. Using the principles of Wait-Time analysis described in this white paper, DBAs, developers and application owners can align their efforts with the service levels desired by their IT customers.

This white paper from Confio Software shows how Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Confio Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	SLA, Monitoring Systems, Diagnostics and Analysis, Infrastructure Management, Database Management, Service Level Management, IT Reliability, High Performance Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Database Applications

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