Database performance issues are on the rise and impacting operations. Today, over 60% of enterprises manage more than 1 TB of data. And with the rush to cut costs through datacenter consolidation and virtualization, complex performance issues are emerging that are increasingly difficult to identify and fix. With stringent SLAs to be met, limited resources, and with the on-going proliferation of applications and heterogeneous database environments, taming the performance beast requires intelligent database performance strategies, techniques, and tools.

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Taming the Performance Beast: How Database Optimization is Critical to Reducing Costs in Complex Infrastructures

With Noel Yuhanna | Principal Analyst. Forrester Research

Join Forrester Analyst Noel Yuhanna as he offers insight and actions for database professionals to tackle today’s performance challenges. Attendees will learn:

• Most common factors causing performance issues, and how have they changed in recent years.
• Impact of data center consolidation, virtualization, and increasingly heterogeneous DBMS environments.
• How database technologies and tools have evolved, and how common optimization approaches may no longer work.
• Proactive best practices for database performance monitoring , SQL tuning, and more.

With today’s budget challenges and limited resources, re-writing or re-architecting systems to achieve better performance are rarely an option. Smart strategies and tools for database optimization is critical to reduce costs in complex infrastructures and can help organizations defer hardware upgrades, get more out of existing systems, and improve developer and DBA productivity.

About the Presenter

Noel Yuhanna
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Noel serves Application Development & Program Management professionals. He primarily covers database management systems(DBMSes), IaaS, data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information life-cycle management, open source databases, and other emerging database technologies.