March 5, 2007

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Level: Introductory/All Levels

One of the IT challenges is to provide an acceptable and consistent service to IT customers in supplying timely and accurate information, with predictable cost. In this presentation we will review how performance prediction models can be used to evaluate different architectures, justify hardware, software and DBMS platforms, and optimize database design and applications performance during all phases of the application and information life cycle.

We will discuss how performance prediction models can be used to evaluate alternatives and justify changes in database design, applications and IT infrastructure required supporting growing business needs.

We will review several examples of multi-tier, distributed environment based on Oracle 10g RAC, DB2 UDB ESE and Teradata and several case studies illustrating value of the performance prediction during feasibility study, database design, implementation of the new applications, workload and database size growth, capacity planning and finally server, application and data consolidation.

Dr. Boris Zibitsker is a Chairman and CTO of BEZ Systems. BEZ Systems specialized in proactive performance management. Dr. Zibitsker and his colleagues developed predictive performance management software used by many corporation to plan, manage and control performance of the applications during all phases of the application life cycle. He is author of many papers and as an expert performance prediction, performance management and database performance optimization, Dr. Zibitsker consults and teaches seminars worldwide.