Mark Friedman, Founder and CTO of Demand Technology Software, recently presented two sessions at the Computer Measurement Group’s imPACt Conference covering Performance Management in the Virtual Data Center. Mark discussed the current set of Windows performance and capacity planning challenges that arise due to infrastructure virtualization in both large scale on-premises and cloud computing environments. You can view […]
Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB
Defining and using machine groups are important features of the Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB). Machine groups are especially useful in managing the performance data from hundreds or thousands of machines. Additionally, using machine groups improves charting and reporting performance in the Performance Sentry Portal. “A Guide to Using Machine Groups Effectively in the Performance […]
Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction
If you are interested in the performance of Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution, Mark Friedman, our Founder and CTO, recently put Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology through its paces, subjecting it to a series of CPU and memory stress tests. These tests are similar to the ones he used to evaluate the performance of VMware ESX to help […]
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released
By Philip on August 17, 2015 in Events, News, NTSMF - Collection Service, Performance Sentry, Performance Sentry Portal
Demand Technology Software announced a cumulative maintenance distribution encompassing fixes and enhancements to the Performance Sentry collection service, Performance Sentry Administration, the Performance Sentry Web Portal, and the NTSMF PDB data utilities. It is available immediately for download for both new and existing customers. The Performance Sentry collection service version 4.0.0.15, which is included in […]
Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal
Cape Coral, Florida, United States – Version 2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal is available today, Demand Technology Software announced. It is available for download for both new and existing customers. The Performance Sentry Web Portal is a web front end to the company’s Microsoft SQL Server-based Performance Database (PDB), which can be configured […]
Performance Sentry VM 2.0 now available
Cape Coral, FL, Jul 18, 2014 – Demand Technology Software, Inc., the creator of Performance Sentry®, announces the release of Performance Sentry VM™, version 2.0. Demand Technology Software announces that Version 2.0 of Performance Sentry VM is available today at its website for new and existing customers. Version 2.0 improves on version 1.0 by simultaneously […]
Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
We are happy to announce that Performance Sentry and the Performance Sentry Portal have been installed on and tested under Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and Windows 8.1 Preview. Interestingly (not surprising), Microsoft has given these previews an internal version of Windows 6.3. With regards to discovering the internal version number, Microsoft has introduced a new […]
New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012
By Philip on October 26, 2012 in Performance engineering, Performance Monitoring, Performance Reporting, Uncategorized
Windows 8 and Server 2012 now Generally Available OK, now that all the hoopla of introducing Windows 8 is over, we can now get down to business. As I wrote in another entry, we at Demand Technology Software, have revised our software installation to work with both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. As part […]
MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring
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Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
We are happy to announce that Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. We had to tweak our installation a bit to use Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) as our previous use of pkgmgr is no longer supported. After understanding the nuances of the new Metro interface and IIS 8.0, we are […]
Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB) Data Model
Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB) Data Model The Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB) is a flexible and highly scalable repository designed specifically for optimal storage and reporting of detailed, daily performance data gathered using the performance monitoring facilities of the Windows operating system. This section introduces the data model that the PDB uses to store […]
Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows and Windows applications
Mark Friedman recently presented his paper at the CMG ’11 International Conference in Washington DC and we have made it available as a White Paper in our download area. You can use this link to retrieve it: Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows “This paper discusses the legacy technique for measuring processor utilization in Windows that […]
Great to be back!!!
After a 4+ year hiatus while I was working at Microsoft, I am back working at DemandTech Software, the company I started in 1998, as of the beginning of 2011. My name is Mark B. Friedman. I am a professional software developer, author of several popular software products over the years, many of them tools […]
Workaround for Telerik WPF RadNumericUpDown Control Minimum Value Binding Problem
Summary There is a known problem whereby binding in the Telerik RadNumericUpDown control is broken. If a minimum value is greater than zero, then the WPF binding of the control will break during initialization. For our design, this rendered the control unusable. Since this problem has not been fixed nor appears to be fixed […]
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- Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments
- Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB
- Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction
- Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released
- Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal
- Performance Sentry VM 2.0 now available
- Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
- New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012
- MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring
- Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
- Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB) Data Model
