5 Key Capacity and Performance Concerns for Unix/Linux

The history of Unix is long and the path it took from an academic programmer’s sandbox to commercial workhorse was winding at times. 

That said, it goes without saying that Unix and Linux today are key pieces of just about every company’s IT infrastructure, providing key services to internal and external clients.

Unix certainly hasn’t stood still since its founding in 1969. Today’s Unix (of varying flavors) can be very complex. Virtualization technologies exist in just about every Unix variant (for example AIX LPARS and Solaris Containers) and those certainly provide challenges to the administrator and to the capacity and performance manager.

Metron has been providing software and services in the area of Unix Capacity Management since the 1980s and has been there during the shift (in many companies) from total reliance on the mainframe to an increased reliance on Unix computing as the technology and the resilience/reliability improved.

Linux, originally released in 1991 as a free/open source Unix-like operating system, still seems like the “new kid in town” to the experienced IT professional. But that shouldn’t fool anyone into thinking that Linux isn’t providing key IT services in many companies. The relatively inexpensive total cost of ownership means that Linux is being used in varied ways - from stand-alone servers, to virtualized systems in VMware DataCenters, to uses in Big Data implementations. 

Managing the performance and capacity of Linux is a crucial part of an overall Capacity and Performance Management strategy.

Join me at our free webinar where I'll be looking at 5 of the key capacity and performance concerns for Unix and Linux. 

In my session I'll be covering:

• How Unix/Linux fit into today’s DataCenter
• Performance Concerns for Unix
• How virtualization affects how we manage Unix environments
• Looking at Linux…do we manage it differently from Unix?
• New technologies (Cloud/Big Data, etc.) using Unix/Linux

It's taking place on March 19th, so there's still time to register 
http://www.metron-athene.com/services/training/webinars/index.html

Hope to see you there

Jamie Baker

Principal Consultant