VERITAS Software Removes Application Performance Speed Bumps For Tieliikelaitos - Finnish Roads Enterprise.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- VERITAS Indepth(TM) for SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. Software Yields Tieliikelaitos an Immediate 83 Percent Increase in CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. Utilization VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ) today announced that Tieliikelaitos, The Finnish Roads Enterprise based in Helsinki, has standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on VERITAS application performance management (APM (Advanced Power Management) A programming interface (API) from Intel and Microsoft for battery-powered computers that lets programs communicate power requirements to slow down and speed up components. See ACPI. APM - Advanced Power Management ) software to support application development, testing and production on Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases. Tieliikelaitos has realized quantifiable Quantifiable Can be expressed as a number. The results of quantifiable psychological tests can be translated into numerical values, or scores. Mentioned in: Psychological Tests benefits from VERITAS APM software that include remarkable improvement in CPU utilization in the first 24 hours, the avoidance of costly server upgrades and increases in user productivity. A subsidiary of Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications, Tieliikelaitos is responsible for the planning, construction and maintenance of the country's traffic routes. The company operates from more than 200 locations across Finland and relies on 2,000 workstations and up to 100 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows servers See Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. with Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases to manage its civil engineering work. "Before we were introduced to VERITAS Indepth, we tried other application performance management solutions, but they all lacked the functionality we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ," said Petri Pehkonen, IT architect for Tieliikelaitos. "VERITAS Indepth, on the other hand, enables us to proactively monitor, analyze and tune our MS-SQL and Oracle databases quickly and effectively. We can see which statements are using the most CPU power, pinpoint the cause of the problem and fix it. If a business user comes to me and says that performance was slow yesterday, I want to be able to tell that person immediately what the problem was and how we solved it. I can do that with VERITAS Indepth." Moving SQL and Oracle Databases to the Fast Lane Tieliikelaitos experienced an immediate and dramatic improvement in CPU utilization after turning on VERITAS Indepth software. When the Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. environment used for the development of road engineering projects consumed nearly 100 percent of available CPU power, Tieliikelaitos first tried to lower CPU usage by migrating the database to a more powerful, 32-bit processor server. This move only reduced CPU utilization down to 30 percent. This reduction was not enough to allow Tieliikelaitos to follow its policy of saving money by consolidating as many databases as possible onto a single server. To increase computing computing - computer efficiency further, Tieliikelaitos installed VERITAS Indepth for SQL software, which quickly identified a lack of indexes in databases tables as the main performance problem. When Tieliikelaitos remedied this problem, CPU usage dropped to only five percent - thus, improving utilization by a stunning 83 percent. With this gain, Tieliikelaitos could consolidate databases onto a single server and avoid purchasing new hardware by using existing servers more productively. Additionally, VERITAS Indepth software enabled Tieliikelaitos to optimize database usage and react proactively when the load on the server grows. Additionally, the Finnish Roads Enterprise uses VERITAS Indepth software to guarantee the service levels for a new version of its mission critical, Oracle-based road development and maintenance application. To prevent the possibility of users reporting slow database performance, Tieliikelaitos uses the VERITAS Indepth for Oracle software to capture data on current and long-term performance analysis and proactively fix any potential resource bottlenecks caused by poorly-written SQL statements or inefficiently designed database objects. "If you want a total, accurate picture of applications and databases, look no further than VERITAS Indepth, and the VERITAS APM teams are the experts to deliver it," concluded Pehkonen. "Already a VERITAS storage software customer, the Finnish Roads Enterprise is realizing many of the benefits of our building block approach to utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. ," said Brenda Zawatski, vice president of product marketing, VERITAS Software. "Tieliikelaitos has already experienced productivity benefits from using VERITAS NetBackup(TM) 5.0 and VERITAS Storage Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or software for data protection and now has gained additional benefits from using VERITAS Indepth software in the area of application performance." VERITAS Application Performance Management and Utility Computing Utility computing is a model that delivers IT as a measurable service - aligned with business needs and capable of adapting to changing demands - built on a shared, automated infrastructure. Application performance is one of the key building blocks in VERITAS' utility computing strategy, helping organizations move beyond traditional availability initiatives to implement solutions that address both system uptime and user response time. About VERITAS Software VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software to enable utility computing. In a utility computing model IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. With 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS delivers products for data protection, storage & server management, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com. Copyright (C) 2004 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, Indepth and NetBackup are trademarks or registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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