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Manage Web server performance and bandwidth in Windows 2000

You can use Internet Information Services IIS to control bandwidth usage and server performance. Here's how. If your organization's Web site doesn't receive a huge amount of traffic, managing bandwidth and server performance might not be a big issue for you. As traffic grows, ...

Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows 2000 Server Tips Newsletter, Web Server, Bandwidth, Performance, Microsoft Windows 2000, Server, Microsoft Windows, Server Performance, Internet Information Services, Servers, Hardware

Technical articles 2005-06-16

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Performance Baselining, Benchmarking, and Monitoring for SQL Server 2000

It is impossible to truly tune a SQL Server without a good understanding of its performance profile and work load. This white paper describes techniques and procedures to assess the baseline performance profile of a SQL Server, benchmark the performance of the server under varying work loads, and how to...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Benchmarking, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Monitoring, Server, Quest Software Inc., Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2005-01-01

IIS 6.0 Performance and Tuning - Level 200

This session covers Internet Information Services IIS performance tuning tools, including System Monitor, Application Center Test, and Log Manager. The webcast will show how to use these tools to gather Web server baseline performance information, optimize performance and memory utilization, and test performance of applications running on the Web server...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft IIS 6.0, Microsoft IIS Server, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts

Exchange Server 2007 Performance Characteristics Using NetApp iSCSI Storage Systems

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides increased availability options and performance improvements that address some of these messaging issues. However, as user mailboxes become larger, Exchange Server performance must be balanced with storage capacity to achieve acceptable cost/performance metrics. This paper examines some of the changes in Exchange Server 2007 and...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, Storage System, NetApp, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-03-01

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server Performance Counter Guidance (Level 300)

Monitoring performance on Microsoft SQL Server using perfmon can be difficult Having a set list of counters and knowing what to look for can help SQL Server administrators determine whether performance issues exist, and how scalable their servers are. They can be used to indicate areas of focus when performance...

Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft TechNet, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2007-11-19

Implementing BMC Performance Assurance in a VMware Environment

With BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Virtual Servers, one can manage the performance of VMware ESX servers. A person can analyze performance information for the virtualized systems Windows and Linux and obtain a system-level view of the VMware ESX server for server sizing, modeling, performance management, and daily reporting. BMC...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Performance, Environment, Server, VMware Inc., It Management, It service Management

White papers 2006-04-20

Managing Server Performance With HP OpenView Performance Manager V6

HP openview performance manager is a powerful graphical analysis and planning tool designed to analyze and project future resource utilization and performance trends. This webcast explains how to manage server performance with HP OpenView Performance Manager V6.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Server, HP OpenView, HP OpenView Performance Manager, Performance Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management

Webcasts

Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Performance

Having one or more subsystems that are underperforming alters the responses and behaviors of a server. Usually, this means that the server becomes unresponsive or falls below what is considered acceptable operational behavior. This diminished performance puts the Service Level Agreement SLA at risk, which ultimately means the organization itself...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Performance Management, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-07-14

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Performance Troubleshooting (Level 200)

An area of concern for Contoso is the monitoring and troubleshooting of any performance issues it may encounter on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. This webcast covers the tools available for IT departments as they troubleshoot performance. The presenter takes a look at Performance Studio, the features available, and how to...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-05-13

Flux: A Language for Programming High-Performance Servers

Programming high-performance server applications is challenging: it is both complicated and error-prone to write the concurrent code required to deliver high performance and scalability. Server performance bottlenecks are difficult to identify and correct. Finally, it is difficult to predict server performance prior to deployment. This paper presents Flux, a language...

Tags: High-performance, Programming, Programming High-performance Server Application, Server Performance Bottleneck, Flux Program, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2006-04-19

Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2003

For most customer workloads, Windows Server 2003 performs very well out of the box. However, users may want to tune certain server settings to obtain incremental performance gains, especially when the nature of a server workload will not vary much over time. This paper describes important tuning parameters and settings...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

White papers 2003-10-01

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 With Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Vs. Linux Competitive Web Server Performance Comparison

Microsoft commissioned VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to conduct a series of tests comparing the Web serving performance of the following server operating system configurations running on a variety of server hardware and processor configurations. Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0 delivered 300 percent better peak performance in...

Tags: Web Server, Web, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Processors, Open Source, Software, Internet, Hardware, Marketing, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2003-04-01

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.3: Scalability Solution for SAS Dynamic Cluster Tables

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server SAS SPD Server is designed to meet the storage and performance needs for processing large amounts of SAS data. Hundreds of sites worldwide use the SAS SPD Server, which hosts data warehouses in excess of 30 terabytes. SAS SPD Server provides high-performance data storage for...

Tags: Performance, Scalability, SAS Institute, Server, SAS SPD Server

White papers 2006-02-01

Benchmarking Servers Using Virtual Machines

Virtualization software is often used in enterprise on server machines to run Virtual Machines VMs, each running a distinct server. is has many benefits including flexibility and lower hardware cost. is paper presents the results from conducting a performance evaluation of two comparable dual quad-core server machines, one from HP...

Tags: Benchmarking, Virtual Machine, Virtualization Software, Server Machine, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-04-27

Optimize SQL Server without rewriting queries

Sluggish SQL Server database performance can be caused by many factors besides just poorly designed queries. While there is certainly a correlation between the quality of your queries and your server's performance, queries aren't always the problem when SQL Server underperforms. This article offers a variety of methods for optimizing...

Tags: Query, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Download resources 2005-03-02

Discover what's slowing down Windows Server 2003 with Server Performance Advisor

notification in Server Performance AdvisorHi...Does anyone know how to setup email notification. In particular, can the smtp server be an Exchange server on the LAN?Thanks,Tony

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, performance monitioring, server, Server Performance Advisor, tony.tsitas@..., windows 2003

Discussion threads 2005-04-28

Best Practices for Virtual Server Performance Management 

The 'Best Practices for Virtual Server Performance Management' webinar addresses the what, why and how of 'virtualization' from a virtual server perspective. The webcast discusses "what" is virtualization, "why" are customers virtualizing their IT infrastructure and "how" can BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers help manage not only the initial...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Virtual Server, Best Practice, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Performance Management, It Management, Business Intelligence, Hardware, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2003 Performance Tuning (Level 300)

This webcast provides helpful performance tuning tips and techniques for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The webcast looks at the tools available for monitoring Exchange Server performance. It then provides best practices, registry tweaks, and performance monitoring techniques based on extensive, real-world experiences with Exchange Server 2003.

Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft TechNet, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts

Managing System Performance With HP Operations Center Software

Many people only worry about server system performance when it starts to cause problems. This webcast will discuss how to optimize system performance using HP Software tools like GlancePlus, Performance Agent and Performance Manager.

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2007-08-21

Achieve better Linux server performance through system monitoring

Before you can tweak your Linux sever to increase performance you first have to measure its system performance. This chapter from Performance Tuning for Linux Servers IBM Press examines the system monitoring tools you should deploy to gather that vital information.A TechRepublic interview with this book's editors is also available....

Tags: Linux Server, Performance, System Monitoring, IBM Corp., Linux, Performance Management, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

Book chapters 2005-07-21