Computer Associates has released a performance management solution designed to enhance the ability of IT staff to proactively monitor database performance and optimise the availability of critical business systems.
Unicenter DPM 4.4 is the latest addition to the Unicenter Database Management for distributed RDBMS suite, which is a strategic component of CA`s Unicenter family of e-business management solutions.
Unicenter DPM is geared to effectively extend the capabilities of Unicenter while providing comprehensive analytics and event management capabilities.
"By providing insight into database performance issues, Unicenter DPM 4.4 also streamlines tuning and troubleshooting processes, thereby boosting productivity," says Shaun Nel, a senior business technologist at Computer Associates (Africa).
"Unicenter DPM will go a long way to assisting customers to increase the performance and availability of their databases. With effective management these databases can be geared to capitalise on new generation e-business applications."
Nel says companies are currently over-capitalising on IT hardware to ensure performance of database systems. "Unicenter will provide customers with the ability to tune their databases for performance more effectively than upgrading hardware," he says.
"Further effective use of staff through accurate analysis of database metrics will ensure that companies can utilise these resources more effectively in driving e-business initiatives. They will not become bogged down in mundane operational issues."
Unicenter DPM provides end-to-end monitoring and analysis of databases, systems and applications. It provides detailed metrics that enable technicians to rapidly pinpoint the root causes of performance problems - significantly reducing mean time-to-fix.
This latest version also features new response policy capabilities that allow database administrators to automate remedial actions - such as detecting space constraint conditions and automatically taking corrective actions - that can eliminate a possible database failure and help prevent the interruption of critical business processes and/or services.
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