SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced enhancements to
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) to improve the performance of business-critical applications by optimizing SQL Server, Oracle and other database operations -- whether apps are hosted on premises, in a virtualized environment, or now, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
Improve performance of business-critical apps -- wherever they are
Applications are increasingly elemental to business
operations, and their performance and fast response time is thus
essential to any organization's success. The current set of application
performance management (APM) tools focuses on app code, largely ignoring
the database, yet in a 2014 Gleanster survey on APM, 88 percent of respondents cited the database as their most common challenge with app performance.
Further, as businesses increasingly embrace cloud and hybrid
architecture deployments for hosting their apps, these environments grow
more dynamic and complex, so database performance analysis and
optimization are more critical than ever to maintain end-user
expectations for uptime and performance.
"The benefits of the cloud -- flexibility, scalability, etc.
-- are proven and substantial, so it's no surprise that many businesses
are taking advantage of it. However, the performance of cloud-based apps
is critically dependent on database performance, and access to
performance-optimization tools in the cloud is essential," said Gerardo
Dada vice president of product marketing, SolarWinds. "SolarWinds
Database Performance Analyzer provides IT and DevOps teams with
performance-based visibility of their databases wherever they are -- on
premises, in virtual environments, or on the AWS Cloud."
Gain immediate visibility into database -- and application -- performance
SolarWinds DPA continuously monitors SQL Server,
Oracle, SAP ASE (formerly Sybase®) and DB2® databases in physical,
cloud-based and VMware® environments to identify database performance
issues that impact end-user response times, isolate root cause, show
historical performance trends and dynamic baselines, and correlate
metrics with response time and performance.
In its latest version, SolarWinds DPA provides:
- Performance analysis for databases on the AWS Cloud
deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers and on Amazon
Relational Database Service (RDS) database instances; SolarWinds DPA is
available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in the AWS Marketplace to
enable deployment in minutes
- A single view to monitor hundreds of instances of all major database
platforms regardless of deployment methodology, including hybrid
(monitoring of on-premises database instances from the cloud, or cloud
database instances from on-premises)
- The ability for users to annotate changes to configuration and
deployment within the historical timeline and directly associate them
with changes to monitored metrics and database response time
"As a long-time user of SolarWinds Database Performance
Analyzer, I am excited that it now supports organizations that are
deploying apps and infrastructure in the cloud," said Craig Shallahamer,
President, OraPub, Inc. "Tons of DBAs can now accelerate deployment and
feel confident in the uptime and performance, finally making the cloud
both more accessible and less daunting for everyone involved."
SolarWinds DPA also features Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis,
giving IT departments additional visibility into how the application
performs database operations and where the bottlenecks are, helping them
eliminate guesswork, assisting in the reduction of overprovisioning and
correction of application performance issues. SolarWinds DPA's
agentless architecture is used to analyze performance across
development, testing, QA and production environments, enabling
collaboration among teams and eliminating silo-based finger pointing.
Other SolarWinds DPA features include storage performance
analysis and correlation, providing database admins with unique insight
into how storage I/O issues contribute to poor application response
time, and metric baselining with alerting and reporting to help pinpoint
the root cause of performance issues quickly.
Forward-thinking cloud development teams will also be able to
take advantage of the capabilities of SolarWinds DPA together with
Librato, which provides real-time operational visibility
into cloud applications. Learn more about Librato's capabilities for
data collection, advanced manipulation, visualization and alerting of
almost anything running on the cloud, see here.
Pricing and Availability
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer pricing starts
at $1,995 USD for SQL Server and Oracle Standard Edition, and $3,495
for Oracle Enterprise Edition, DB2 and SAP ASE. SolarWinds offers fully
functional two-week trials for both the AWS Marketplace AMI and the
downloadable version on the SolarWinds website. Customers will not incur
SolarWinds software charges during free two-week trials, however AWS
infrastructure charges still apply. All database platforms are licensed
by the instance, and pricing includes the first year of maintenance. For
more information, visit the
SolarWinds website