PerfCap Corporation
Performance and Capacity Management Software
 Focused on Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning
 Started within Digital Equipment over 25 years ago
 Operating as independent corporation since 2001
 Privately Owned, Zero Debt
 25+ Years of Solid Engineering & Development
 Worldwide Presence
 Partnerships
 Dell, Microsoft Certified Partner
 HP, IBM, SUN, VMware partner
PerfCap
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Our Customers
Customers • Thomson Reuters
(Monitoring 50,000+ servers)
• winner
Deutsche
Bank
(Monitoring 2,000 servers)
Paul O'Sullivan
Adrian
Cockcroft,
of
A.A.
Michelson
lifetime achievement award at 2007 CMG, in
Larry
Campbell
BNP Paribas
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blog wrote
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Architecture
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Group (Monitoring
Manager,
Worldwide
BNP Paribas
Information
Technology
GroupVice President,
• US
Postal Services
(Monitoring 450 servers)
“The most
interesting commercial
tool
I saw at CMG earlier this month is a capacity
International
Security
Exchange
•
ISE
(Largest Options Stock Exchange)
monitoring tool called PAWZ from PerfCap Corporation. The key thing they have
"PAWZ is the closest approach to removing the circles of confusion from
worked
on is taking the human out of the loop as much as possible
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Netherlands
Army
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provided us with
a simple
costiseffective
scalable
model.
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core idea
that you care about "headroom"
Royal
Bank of Scotland
 International Paper
 CNS Dubai
in a service,
and anything that limits that headroom
is taken
into account. Running out of
solution
and
capacity
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Mellon for our performance
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Vodafone threads etc. will increase
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Medical Center
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power,
network
bandwidth,
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same
performance
reports
to
CIOs,
developers,
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Bank
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Telecom
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UK to
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output.
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US
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of Education
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Buffalo
Univ.
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makes
jobless.”
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 Caremark
 Golden Bank 1
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PerfCap PAWZ Software
Enables Performance and Capacity management team to:
 Economize – Affordable solution for servers
 Scale – Supports from 10s to 10s of thousands of servers.
 Virtualize – Manage virtual/cloud environment and model physical to
virtual consolidation
 Predict – Future Performance
 Simplify – Computes and predicts future Capacity headroom
 Model – Predicts responsiveness with changes in workload and
configuration
 Automate – Mundane activities run automatically
 Alert – Email and online reports as and when needed
 Activate – Simple installation and configuration.
 Interface – All via web browser
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Scalable Automation of:
Data Collection, Storage, Analysis, and Publishing
PAWZ
Analysis/modeling
Engine &
Database
= PAWZ Agent
Applications
Daily uploads
Web
Intranet
Array
Console
Notifications
Storage
Arrays
Remote D/C
Real Time
Performance/Capacity
Graphs
Hypervisors
PAWZ Cloud
Applications
Reports &
Exports
Events
Physical
Servers
Clusters
Networks
VMs
Storage
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Risk Dashboards
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Anticipates Future Performance Risk
 Automated future risk analysis
 Notification of risks status change
 Scales to 100,000s of metrics
Physical limit
Metric
Breakthrough threshold
Lead time
Lead time
Time
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Operational Headroom Computation
Predicts application responsiveness as workload grows
Determines remaining headroom operational capacity
Computes and trends daily for 10,000s of servers
Predicts time to exhaustion of operational capacity
Provides timely, advanced notification of capacity risk
Response time
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Performance degradation
Current workload
% Workload change from current
capacity consumed
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capacity headroom
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Analytical Modeling of Performance
Predicts performance impact of proposed upgrade scenarios
Enables intelligent selection of capacity upgrades
Predicts performance impact of virtualization
Predicts performance impact rebalancing/re-provisioning of VMs
After upgrade
Before Upgrade
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Comparison of performance before/after CPU and disk upgrade
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PerfCap Contact Information
 Conference contact: +1 708 955-5810
 PerfCap phone: +1 603 594-0222
 Web Site: www.PerfCap.com
 E-mail: info@perfcap.com
 Address:
PerfCap Corporation
76 Northeastern Blvd.,
Nashua, NH 03062, USA
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