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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Systems/Enterprise:
CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BOOSTS IT OUTPUT
WITH UTILITY COMPUTING
VERITAS Software Corp, a leading storage software provider, announced that
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city of Cambridge, Mass., has slashed the time it takes to identify and cope
with problematic database transactions by 92 percent after enlisting VERITAS
Indepth for SQL Server application performance management software in its
PeopleSoft implementation.
The city of Cambridge uses the PeopleSoft 8.3 HR application linked to a
Microsoft SQL Server database to manage payroll and benefits for its more than
900 employees. The city recruited VERITAS Indepth for SQL after searching for
a solution that would enable the database administrator to efficiently solve
performance problems by being able to quickly identify problems and then
navigate from a specific execution issue to the corresponding user's SQL
statement, all in a matter of minutes. The city also relies on two other
aspects of VERITAS Indepth for SQL Server: its Performance Warehouse -- which
archives application performance data to monitor trends over time -- and the
tool's seamless integration with Microsoft's SQL Query Analyzer -- an
interactive, graphical tool that enables an administrator or developer to
write queries, execute multiple queries simultaneously, view results, analyze
the query plan and receive assistance to improve the query performance.
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"I can now handle in 10 minutes what used to take me a couple of hours,"
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Database Administrator John Nollet, citing the city's 92 percent improvement
in time required to diagnose database problems. "I use the time saved to
proactively ensure that our applications are managed and executed in the most
efficient manner possible."
"The IT output gains that the city of Cambridge has experienced are proof
positive of our ongoing commitment to the alignment of IT with the evolving
business needs of the enterprise, or in this case the needs of a city, while
in parallel enabling utility computing through a systematic building block
approach," said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations
at VERITAS Software. "By enabling customers to efficiently find and fix
application problems, they are able to use the time and resources saved to
focus IT on more strategic tasks."
Application Performance Management And Utility Computing
Utility computing is a computing model that delivers IT as a measurable
service, aligned with business needs and capable of adapting to changing
demands. Application performance is one of the key building blocks of VERITAS'
utility computing strategy, since the utter reliance businesses have on their
information systems means that these businesses can come to a halt when their
IT systems are unavailable. Poorly performing systems also will result in
poorly performing organizations and poor customer perception of these
organizations. Businesses that understand these issues have moved beyond
traditional availability initiatives, usually focusing on uptime only, and are
implementing programs with a broader view of availability that address both
system uptime and user response time.
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