The dictionary defines "Performance" as "the manner in which or the efficiency with which something reacts or fulfills its intended purpose". Applying this definition to application and systems performance would seem a natural task ingrained into everyday operations. Unfortunately, given the typical daily workloads most IT shops face, optimizing performance is something that generally is left out. The most popular way organizations attempt to solve their performance issues is with faster, more powerful  hardware. While this generally produces some positive results the benefit is very costly in both hardware and tiered software. Additionally, performance is typically addressed only when business or system reliability is impacted thereby creating additional pressure to the already constrained staff to fix the issue. If this sounds familiar and your staff operates in this reactive mode then consider Stealth Global's Performance Management Service as a cataylst to help you shift to a much more cost-effective and manageable operating paradigm.

The challenge

Improving systems Performance is rarely a one time event and since that most IT organizations operate in a reactive mode there is almost  constant firefighting. Additionally, system performance atrophies over time requiring on-going analysis and attention to maintain peak throughput. These two inherent issues are diametrically opposed  and require a change catalyst to address. Stealth Global's Performance Management solution(s) are designed specifically to meet your individual technology and business needs by providing seasoned, dedicated Performance Managers to work in concert with your technical staff to identify trends and opportunities that will materially affect systems performance and add value to your operations. 

The solution

The service first makes sense of the massive amount of systems information at your disposal and then proactively searches for opportunities to improve your environment or to address potential issues before they occur.  With this highly valuable service, Stealth Global ties together its team of technical experts to the information produced by the monitoring and visualization services, producing performance and tuning recommendations.  Working with your staff to  ensure the recommendations are reviewed and prioritized to provide the best suite your immediate business needs. Once implemented we provide "before and after reporting" to establish the value of each recommendation. Our Performance Management Services are delivered remotely as a subscription service at a surprisingly low cost providing long term value.

Our staff will:

• Analyze the metrics captured from your systems
• Provide detailed and specific recommendations based on this analysis
• Recommendations will be categorized by high, medium, or low impact
• Recommendations will be provided in a weekly status report and reviewed on a weekly performance management conference call with your staff
• Utilizing Stealth Global's Visualization and Trending service, the impact of recommendations will be tracked and reported.

The benefits

• • Performance data collected around the clock provide a persistent source of data for trending.
  • The on-going (daily, weekly or as required) analysis of this data and trends provides a constant source of opportunities for performance improvements.
  • Periodic meetings with your staff provides a procedurally based program of discussing and evaluating potential performance enhancements by your domain experts.
  • Best practices are also a significant side benefit of these reviews to ensure upstream development staff applies these best practices.
  • Performance recommendations can be prioritized to meet specific business needs, tied to software release schedules or completed on an emergency basis. All controlled by your staff.
  • Recommendations are tracked on pre and post change basis to measure the true impact of the changes.
  • Stress and overtime imposed by the reactive firefighting mode is dramatically impacted.