Hotsos for Managers and End Users
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Most of the Oracle systems we look at work about twice as hard as they need to. The way most Oracle database administrators and performance analysts have been trained actually stimulates the problem.
Your performance problems evade solution because your staff, your consultants, and your tools look in the wrong places.
What if your staff could identify and eliminate inefficiencies that would free up 50% of your systems' capacity? You'd make your applications faster for everyone. You could postpone your next hardware upgrade, and you might be able to avoid migrating your application to a costlier, more complex architecture. You might be able to save license fees by consolidating your applications onto fewer servers.
Hotsos can identify and eliminate the wasteful workload that's hiding from your staff.
Typical Problems
Hotsos can help you solve problems like the following:
“We've spent a lot of money trying to improve performance, and it hasn't really gotten the job done. I want to know when it's time to buy hardware, and when it's not. In fact, before I invest time and money into any proposed system change, I want to know in plain language how that change will impact my business.”
“How can I optimize my applications so they'll run faster on less hardware?”
“How can we ensure that system performance will always remain fast and stable?”
“When we do have performance problems, how can we improve both our reaction time and the reliability of the result?”
“How can we make sure that fixing one performance problem won't accidentally cause a new performance problem for someone else?”
The Solution
To run a business, you need to make informed decisions. Traditional Oracle “tuners” operate by trial and error. You don't get a reasonable view of cost and benefit until after you've invested into trying the thing you were trying to decide about. It's a lot like driving as fast as you can with your eyes closed.
Any time you consider an activity that might change the performance of your system, you need to know the impact that the activity will have on your end users. That's where we come in.
How Hotsos Can Help
Hotsos offers the following products and services to help your department solve problems faster, more permanently, and more economically than you've ever imagined. Better yet, we can help you prevent them from happening in the first place:
Our new book, Optimizing Oracle Performance, describes the method that your team should use to respond to any system performance problem.
Hotsos Symposium gives your staff an annual opportunity to drink from the firehose of performance knowledge with the best Oracle performance experts in the world. It's the best way for your technology staff to stay abreast of new developments in Oracle performance.
Our Performance Diagnosis I course can teach your staff how to diagnose and repair exactly the performance problems your business is fighting today.
Our SQL Optimization I course teaches your developers and DBAs how to repair the application SQL that is wasting your hardware capacity.
The Hotsos Profiler automates some of the more tedious tasks that sometimes prevent your staff from using the performance optimization methods they should be using.
Laredo is software that helps your technical staff identify unintended side-effects of performance repairs. It helps your technicians find performance problems before your users do.
If you need help or just a second opinion, we offer consulting services designed to give you the maximum impact for the smallest possible investment.
References
Here is a small sample of what our customers and colleagues have to say about us:
Hotsos brings a refreshing approach to Oracle performance management with their software, education, and consulting. They are world-class system performance talent.
—Ray Lane, former President and COO of Oracle Corporation
The Hotsos problem diagnosis course made detecting and correcting our problems quick and easy. One area had never had a month-end flow complete so fast in the seven years they've been running it. I totally invalidated all the reasons they used to justify buying two CPUs six months ago. Too bad I didn't get called in before they bought them.
—Dallas Deeds, Columbus Ohio
After applying what was learned in the Hotsos problem diagnosis course and using the Hotsos Profiler, I identified a 2-minute fix that resulted in a savings of one whole CPU on the database server.
—Mike Wielonski, Convergys
