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Overview Country: United States
Customer Profile DBA
Consulting’s client for this case study was founded in 1871,
and operates 250 non-membership warehouse stores for food and
foodservice supplies in Business Situation With AIX consolidation and newly purchased resources, performance monitoring and capacity planning needs were crucial. Existing system management software was not providing the necessary features and was too complex. DBA needed to provide a solution that would help with consolidation plans and drive the AIX performance of new resources.
Solution DBA Consulting chose up.time 4 because it provided the 3-D graphing, automated reporting, alerts, and capacity planning solutions required in a large AIX environment, with the ability to grow and manage a heterogeneous infrastructure in the future.
Benefits ü Immediately saved $50,000 during the first proactive outage alert. ü “It has paid for itself 10 times over in the first 3-4 months,” - Cristian Speranta. ü Increased uptime by pinpointing problems before outages occur. ü Simple reporting for consolidation and finding virtualization opportunities
For more infomration For more information about uptime software inc. or up.time 4 - an Enterprise Monitoring and Planning Solution that Just works - call the uptime Sales Information Center at 416.868.0152. Alternatively, visit our Web site to learn more about up.time at www.uptimesoftware.com. You may also choose to download uptime's latest software solution for monitoring and planning. Download by clicking here. |
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| DBA Consulting helps Huge Business and Household Foodservice company to save $50,000 instantly by avoiding outages “After
using up.time
4, I can confidently say it’s the only tool I
recommend due to its analytical charting features, summery-at-a-glance
functionality, point and click reporting, and its alerting and
notification capabilities. These features translate into real
world IT savings and result in a product that has
easily paid for itself inside three months. Problems are highlighted
before they become critical reducing response time to unscheduled
outages. up.time should be the tool of choice for AIX server
environments.”
DBA
Consulting Inc. led a major business and household foodservice company,
with a market capitalization of almost half a Billion dollars on the
NYSE, to consolidate AIX servers, increase server performance and
availability, and capacity plan for additional resources to drive
company and shareholder growth. The project came in under budget and
delivered above expectations. How? Cristian Speranta, a Senior Technical Consultant for DBA Consulting, advocates a proactive approach to IT management and as such depends on systems and server management software, including server monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity planning to aid in that goal. When Cristian evaluates different systems management solutions for his clients, he looks for ease of use for his client, out-of-the-box performance, standard and custom alerting features, automated professional reporting and graphing, capacity planning, and cost savings
Situation DBA’s client needed an all-in-one systems management and AIX server monitoring tool for their AIX infrastructure that could also aid in capacity planning. After looking closely at a number of software solutions, they chose uptime software’s “up.time 4.”
“If something goes wrong that I’m responsible for (servers, infrastructure, applications), I know about it before it becomes an issue and can be proactive rather than reactive in pinning down problems quickly. The historical trending let’s me know whether the issue happened quickly or if it built up slowly over time. Using up.time, we’re able to identify servers that were configured sub-optimally for more than two years and correct them to perform at peak efficiency. The new configuration settings resulted in improved system performance, and we were able to track and report that positive change to management with up.time reports,” explains Speranta.
Cost Savings An early detection of an unscheduled outage by up.time, which was missed by another large installed system management product, was estimated to have saved DBA’s client over $50,000 in one instance. up.time provides the alerting, reporting, and trending solutions at a cost that is unbeatable in the marketplace today.
"This product will easily justify its price, paying for itself within 3-6 months. In most cases, it’s even quicker than that.” says Speranta.
Consolidation and Capacity Planning:
Server Monitoring with Ease
“One
of our production databases went down at 2am on the July 4th
weekend
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uptime software’s up.time 4 provides easy enterprise server and application monitoring along with smart capacity planning, all at a large cost savings. Download a free trial version of up.time:
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