Hotsos Symposium Speaker – Neil Gunther
Mr. Gunther is a prior Hotsos Symposium presenter.
Biography
Neil Gunther, M.Sc., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized performance expert who founded Performance Dynamics Company (www.perfdynamics.com) in 1994. Prior to that, Dr. Gunther applied his training as a theoretical physicist to research and management positions at San Jose State University, JPL/NASA (Voyager and Galileo missions), Xerox PARC and Pyramid/Siemens Technology. His computer performance analysis and capacity planning classes have been given at both corporate and academic institutions including AOL, Boeing, FedEx, Motorola, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems (USA and EU), SAGE-Australia and Thales Group (Holland).
Dr. Gunther is the author of numerous papers on computer performance, as well as three books: "The Practical Performance Analyst", (McGraw-Hill 1998), "Analyzing Computer System Performance With Perl::PDQ", (Springer-Verlag 2005), and most recently "Guerrilla Capacity Planning", (Springer-Verlag 2007).
His first experiences with ORACLE database products go back to version 6.0, when he was part of a team that beat Sequent's 16-way x86 multiprocessor with a with a 12 TTL processor Pyramid MISserver T-series running the TP1 benchmark sponsored by Oracle Corp. and audited by Tom Sawyer (whose job was to prevent the whitewashing of benchmark data).
Presentation Title
Better Performance Management through Better Visualization Tools
Abstract
The scale and complexity of modern computer installations means that performance management often amounts to simply trying to stay afloat in a veritable ocean of performance data. To navigate this ocean, we need tools that enable data discovery not just simple reporting. Providing better visual paradigms for this scale of performance management, however, has become an orphaned area of performance tool development, because tool vendors avoid investing in development if they see no demand, while Oracle DBA's and performance engineers do not demand what they have not conceived.
In this presentation I will attempt to break that Gordian knot by demonstrating to you how the following visuals (together with various prototype animations) can help you do better performance management. Moreover, you'll then have a better idea of what to demand from your Oracle tool vendors.
Presentation Materials
Presentation materials are available to attendees only.
Schedule
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