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BOULDER,
Colorado — November 20, 2003 — hyperI/O LLC, the file I/O performance
monitoring expert, announced today that its industry-leading hIOmon™ File I/O
Performance Monitor now supports Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003. This
new capability complements the existing support for Windows® NT,
Windows® 2003 and Windows® XP. The company also announced
that its latest release of hIOmon™ additionally features enhanced
Microsoft® Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI) support that
now includes the new 'hIOmon WMI Browser'. "We are pleased to announce availability of Version 3.1 of our innovative hIOmon™ File I/O Performance Monitor with support for Windows Server 2003," said Tom West, President of hyperI/O LLC. "Version 3.1 introduces to Microsoft's latest, advanced operating system the only means of quickly and easily capturing the most robust set of disk I/O operation performance metrics at the specific, individual file-level." "The latest release of hIOmon™ additionally includes the new ‘hIOmon WMI Browser’, which is an HTML application that exploits the hIOmon™ WMI support and enables the use of Microsoft® Internet Explorer to easily control the overall operation of hIOmon™ and quickly list the real-time summarized file I/O operation performance metrics. "Finding your ‘Top Ten Files’ – with more than 30 sort options to choose from – has never been easier, quicker, or simpler," said West. "With its support for Windows Server 2003 and Internet Explorer, hIOmon™ continues to bring 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," added West. "Easily and quickly determining storage I/O performance and patterns at the specific file level is a key step in practical efforts to promote information life-cycle management and optimum file placement within the storage hierarchy, SAN, NAS, etc." 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
(e.g., iSCSI, SATA, etc.) and proposed improvements to the performance of computer systems, and to help
reduce storage management costs.
Especially with its included support for Windows® Management
Instrumentation (WMI), end-users, integrators and Independent
Software Vendors alike find it easy to tap into the hIOmon™ agent.
‘Out-of-the-box’ features also include a Java™-based GUI, Internet
Explorer GUI in addition to 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.
Users/applications armed with the extensive 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. Use hIOmon™ to help identify those files best suited for SSD, RAM disk and other higher performance disk solutions. Substantiate the benefits 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, Windows® XP, and Windows® Server 2003. A leading provider of Windows 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™ 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™ can also be downloaded at the hyperI/O LLC web site (www.hyperIO.com), along with full documentation, screen shots and 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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