Beta program opportunity

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:48:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B6D53.20010216115202@fatcity.com>

Okay, here goes. First a disclaimer: I am NOT getting paid for this..... I think this is a cool product. I don't promote things on this list if I earn income from them. Having said that....

I have been participating in a beta (maybe alpha?) program with Quest Software for a new product called StorageXpert. I'm going to include the "marketing/press release" info below, they are opening up the beta program to anyone who wants it (don't know if it runs against NT as yet).

Having worked with it (and no, I don't know the pricing schedule at all) I think you guys might want to check it out. I've used it to find hot spots on my disks, and link them back to the tables and queries that are causing the problems. I've been able to drag a programmer over and SHOW him what his query is doing to my database. You know the old "a picture is worth a thousand words" cliche? This is a GRAPHIC display of usage (all those lovely equalizers :) ).

I showed it to my sysadmin and he freaked.. loved it.

I've been running it for about 4 months now without problems.

So... press release below, those of you who want to play with it, have fun, those who don't, please just hit delete.

Rachel

Have you checked out this new cool product StorageXpert for Oracle. This product facilitates detection of the exact cause of the I/O bottlenecks in your Oracle environment. This product is currently beta from Quest Software and it enables you to:

Identify Oracle objects that suffer from I/O bottlenecks
Provide storage device usage patterns and I/O wait information
Identify programs/SQL contributing to the I/O problem
Map I/O operations for Oracle files in the storage devices
Easily use the granular and meaningful I/O information which is provided a concise and user-friendly format

Beta testing ends March 29th 2001. Discover how you can find the root of your storage bottlenecks today! Please check out the "Systems Requirements" link at http://www.quest.com/storage_xpert/system_requirements.asp. You can download the product at http://www.quest.com/storage_xpert/. Please send your feedback to gaja_at_quest.com and technical support queries/issues/problems to support_at_quest.com.

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