Confio Software Launches Performance Intelligence

Confio Igniter Suite PI Delivers a New Approach and Tools for Database and Application Management, Monitoring and Optimization

April 8, 2008 – Boulder, CO - Confio Software, the leader in Wait-Time database performance management tools, today announced a breakthrough in the way companies monitor, manage and optimize databases and the applications that depend on them. Performance Intelligence (PI) is a new method of performance analysis that identifies the most important performance problems in IT systems and their root causes. Performance Intelligence analyzes more than 13 dimensions of wait-time data to uniquely identify the source of delays for database applications. In conjunction with today’s announcement, Confio Software introduced a new version of the suite that incorporates Performance Intelligence, the Confio Igniter Suite PI, and the suite’s first product, Confio Ignite PI for SQL Server, available immediately.

“We have expanded our wait-time method of analysis to allow us to mine performance information from an open data warehouse,” said Don Bergal, chief operating officer at Confio Software. “By harnessing the fine-grained data about specific sources of delay that the Confio Igniter Suite captures in a multi-dimensional data warehouse, we now have the foundation for detailed trend analysis and event correlation to expose the true conditions impacting IT end users. Incorporating Performance Intelligence into the Confio Igniter Suite enables the DBAs, IT management and development teams with an enterprise view where they can answer the difficult performance questions that system health based tools cannot tackle.”

Typically database performance is measured by counting the number of operations and hit ratios. While somewhat meaningful and easy to capture, these statistics do not reflect the impact on end-user experience nor do they reveal with any precision where the problem originated. Performance Intelligence assesses performance in relation to the impact on time, thereby allowing database administrators (DBAs) to quickly determine the order to address their most important user-oriented problems.

The Confio Igniter Suite PI release brings this new analytic technique to an open, multi-vendor, agentless monitoring solution for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase databases. There are four key elements that are the foundation for the PI solutions.

Wait-Time
Typical systems focus on counting server operations, which does not provide a good indicator of IT service. PI drills down to calculate wait-time associated with each operation, specific to individual users and programs to expose delays in end user service.

Trend Analysis
PI captures historical data, presents trends and identifies changing conditions. Traditional analysis focuses on server state at a given point in time, without correlating how the data is changing. PI focuses attention on the changes, and highlights them in a graphical way so that IT staff can be aware of anomalies and react dynamically to changing conditions.

Granular Data
PI accounts for each step taken by the database in processing SQL statements. This results in millions of data points, each representing a potential delay associated with an individual user request. Common monitoring systems capture broad statistics across the entire database which is useful for determining “health” but not sufficiently detailed to find root cause.

Business Intelligence Analysis Techniques
PI applies Business Intelligence analysis techniques to the database performance analysis domain. Capturing data points in a multi-dimensional “cube” structure, and then “spinning the cube” has become best practice for corporate performance systems. For example, Ignite PI captures the detailed data points in the Performance Data Warehouse (PDW), then applies the same method to correlate and identify trends across SQLs, sessions, users, programs and more.

Today, Confio Software also announced the first PI release; Confio Ignite for SQL Server. See the news announcement, “Confio Software Announces New Product for SQL Server Database Performance Management.” Available immediately at www.confio.com, the Confio Ignite PI for SQL Server is intended for sites desiring to use SQL Server as the storage of the Performance Data Warehouse.

Companies can save thousands to millions of dollars by avoiding costly hardware upgrades and tuning their databases and applications with Confio Software. With a single solution crossing multiple database vendors, the Confio Igniter Suite delivers rapid results for companies who can download, install and begin identifying problems within 30 minutes. Free trials are available for download at http://www.confio.com/freetrial.

About Confio Software

Confio Software develops Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase & Java application performance management tools that are revolutionizing how databases and the applications that depend on them are monitored, managed and optimized. Built on industry best-practice Wait-Time methods, Confio Igniter Suite improves service levels and reduces costs for database and application infrastructure. Confio is based in Boulder, Colorado, with customers worldwide. For more information see Confio.com.

Confio and Confio Ignite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Confio Software Corporation, in the United States and/or in other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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