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First to Feature WMI Support |
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BOULDER,
Colorado — August 18, 2003 — hyperI/O LLC, the file I/O performance
monitoring expert, announced today that its industry-leading hIOmon™ File I/O
Performance Monitor now includes Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI)
support. The WMI support promotes
ease-of-use and enables broad, industry-standard access to the most robust set
of file I/O performance metrics currently available, which only hIOmon™
provides. “We
are pleased to announce and make currently available Version 3.0 of our
innovative hIOmon™ File I/O Performance Monitor, which now includes WMI
support,” said Tom West, President of hyperI/O LLC. “Based upon the Common Information Model (CIM) and in
association with the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) industry initiative,
WMI offers a variety of programming interfaces along with extensive scripting
support. End-users and management
applications alike, including Storage Resource Management (SRM) solutions, can
collect information about as well as control the various managed objects within
the enterprise, all within a standardized manner using published APIs supported
by Microsoft®.” “Through its WMI support, hIOmon™ brings file-level I/O performance measuring and monitoring to the forefront, enabling more prudent and sophisticated storage management decisions and policies that are based upon empirical, more tangible metrics,” said West. “Since, by some estimates, less than 10% of the total data is accessed most of the time, understanding I/O performance and patterns at the file level is key in terms of data life-cycle management and placement optimization within the storage hierarchy, SAN, NAS, etc. Bottom line is that hIOmon™, now with WMI support, can help get more out of existing as well as new hardware.” hIOmon™ Benefits hIOmon™
is a software package that provides a variety of important benefits, including
the ability to better diagnose and understand storage access performance
problems, to verify and ensure that required levels of performance
(Quality-of-Service) are being met, to evaluate emerging storage technologies
and proposed improvements to the performance of computer systems, and to help
reduce storage management costs. With
the incorporation of WMI support, end-users, integrators and Independent
Software Vendors alike will find it even easier to tap into the hIOmon™ agent.
‘Out-of-the-box’ features also include a Java™-based GUI, CLI
support, alert capabilities with System Event Log support, both detailed and
summary data on an individual file basis together with both real-time and replay
display modes, along with support for both the Windows® Performance and System
Monitors and a CSV-file export capability.
As but one example, users/applications armed with the extensive, rich set of file I/O performance metrics that only hIOmon™ provides can validate and continually verify that those steps taken to maximize disk storage utilization are indeed of benefit. Such steps include identifying ‘hot files’ and moving files around the storage hierarchy, SAN, NAS, etc. to improve performance by making the best use of newly purchased hardware or without spending IT dollars on new hardware. Moreover, these benefits can be substantiated in terms of actual performance metrics specific to key files and the associated applications. With its many features and capabilities (along with an extremely efficient architecture), hIOmon™ answers the question: “How fast are your files?”™ in terms of a variety of metrics, including response time, I/O count, I/O rate, data transfer rate, queue depth and idle time, plus real-time, metric-based file list sorts and more. hIOmon™
Availability and Pricing The hIOmon™ File I/O Performance Monitor (a Licensed Software package available only from hyperI/O LLC and its authorized distributors/resellers) currently supports Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP. A leading provider of Windows NT/2000/XP tools and system utilities, Sunbelt Software (www.Sunbelt-Software.com) is an international distributor/reseller authorized by hyperI/O LLC to offer Sunbelt hIOmon™ (a co-branded version), along with volume discounts and technical support packages. Introductory pricing for hIOmon™ with WMI support starts at $140 (USD). A 30-day, full-function evaluation copy of Sunbelt hIOmon™ can be downloaded from the Sunbelt Software web site; a trial version of hIOmon™ with WMI support can also be downloaded at the hyperI/O LLC web site (www.hyperIO.com), along with full documentation, screen shots and a white paper. About hyperI/O LLC A
privately held Limited Liability Company founded in 1999 and located in Boulder,
Colorado, hyperI/O LLC offers product and service solutions that are targeted to
help address the fundamental performance gap between computer systems and
storage I/O. hyperI/O LLC has
developed and currently offers through authorized distributors/resellers a
premier, unique software product called hIOmon™, the File I/O
Performance Monitor. Contact
Tom
West hyperI/Osm, hIOmon™, and “How fast are your files?”™ are trademarks of hyperI/O LLC. All other referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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