The 2010 CMG International Conference opened on Monday to extremely positive reviews. Educational sessions have been both well attended and well received and there are a larger than usual number of first time attendees this year. It’s amazing what having the show in a warm weather climate does for attendance. We had a great time at [...]
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Join us at the CMG 2010 International Conference in Orlando this December
CMG’10, the 36th Annual International Conference on Resource Management and Computer Performance Evaluation is being held December 5th -10th at the beautiful Gaylord Hotel in Orlando, Florida. This is a conference that Demand attends every year and we’re extremely pleased to have it held in our home state this year. We’re looking forward to [...]
Server Performance Drives Down IT Costs
Bryce Olson, at The Server Room Blog has written an interesting and detailed post on how server performance can reduce overall IT expenses. In the post he quotes Vernon Turner, the Senior VP of IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom research group as saying: “I think TCO is top of mind when customers evaluate server [...]
Performance Sentry VM goes GA today
We’re very pleased to announce the General Availability of Performance Sentry VM. The product has been in beta for the past few months and the GA version went live on the site early this morning. To learn more or kick the tires please click the appropriate link. Learn more about Performance Sentry VM Kick the [...]
Demand Tech releases SCOM Management Pack for Performance Sentry VM
Demand Technology Software is pleased to announce the release of the Performance Sentry VM Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager . The Management Pack integrates the VMware ESX performance metrics provided by Performance Sentry VM with Microsoft’s popular Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) data center management product. The PSVM Management Pack requires both Performance Sentry VM [...]
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008
Phil put together this quick video demonstrating the installation steps for installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008. At the end of the video he also adds some counters and shows the data in real time using Perfmon. The video is in HD and is easily viewed in full screen mode.
Using a Server Performance Monitor to find Code Problems
If you are reading this blog you already know that server performance monitoring is valuable for a number of reasons, but one thing that you may not have considered is using historical performance data to help to indentify problems introduced to a system by new programming code. A long time Performance Sentry user of ours [...]
Performance Sentry VM Available for General Beta
After months of development and testing Performance Sentry VM, our Performance Monitor for ESX Server, is available for general beta testing. Performance Sentry VM runs as a service in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. It can run in a VM guest, or a machine external to the ESX [...]