Violin Memory Adding Automated Performance Analysis Service

Violin Memory, Inc. announced the availability of its Oracle Performance Analysis Service (O-PAS).

This tool helps IT professionals remove the complexity of reporting, analyzing and decision-making around Oracle databases to help lower the costs of their Oracle deployments while increasing Oracle database and associated application performance.

At no cost to the end user or the reseller, the O-PAS identifies core performance bottlenecks in end users’ Oracle environments and determines the suitability of flash-based storage solutions to substantially increase IO/s, reduce latency, and lower overall costs. In order to achieve this, the tool generates reports that identify areas in Oracle implementations where massive performance improvements can be gained by using all-flash arrays and the associated cost savings that engenders.

O-PAS reports offer insights and measurements that help database administrators, application owners, IT executives, and resellers make informed decisions and select the right solution to achieve performance improvements and cost savings.

Some of the report insights include:

CPU vs. I/O wait time: if the time spent waiting on I/O is higher than the time spent working on the CPU, the database may be impacted by the performance of the storage system, leading to under-utilized CPUs and excessive CPU costs.
I/O wait overview: an overall indication of whether the existing storage is impacting database performance, and potentially, causing poor end user experience.
Time lost waiting on I/O: an indication of how much time is wasted waiting for I/O calls to complete during busy periods. This value directly translates into lost productivity.

“We have seen first-hand where poor database and application performance has cost our enterprise customers millions of dollars in lost revenue, extra IT and database manpower expenses, and unacceptable operational and capital expenses,“, said Eric Herzog, CMO and SVP alliances, Violin. “With the worldwide availability of O-PAS, end users and resellers will greatly benefit from the ability to quickly identify opportunities for significant improvements in cost, performance, and application delivery.“

To get O-PAS (registration needed)