Companies that experience growth often find that demand now exceeds supply. When response time is no longer acceptable, it is often too late to avoid a period of user complaints before the appropriate resource can be upgraded. Even in companies where growth is not a big factor, there will be changes in the environment, normal degradation in data structures, and problem processes that need to be addressed. Performance management is the key to keeping the level of hardware resources appropriate to the demand. It is also the key to keeping performance acceptable on a system that is not bottlenecked on a global resource.
Performance management begins with understanding.
Once the functionality of the four basic areas is understood, there is a readiness to apply this knowledge to overall planning of resources, problem and crisis performance of specific applications and processes, and the identification of global bottlenecks. Jeff Kubler is president of Kubler Consulting, Inc., a full-service consulting company specializing in performance, capacity planning, high availability, Suprtool training, and IT solutions. Kubler Consulting, Inc. works with multiple HP platforms. Prior to establishing Kubler Consulting, Inc., Mr. Kubler worked as the chief consultant and trainer at a well-known performance tools and consulting firm. He has also held the positions of senior technical support specialist and performance analyst and has over 17 years of experience in the Hewlett-Packard world.