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Case Studies
Insuring the Present and the Future at Allianz
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although Allianz is a long-standing user of Metron's Athene software, Roy Cawthra believes that the product is now more important than ever before. It is being used to provide regular capacity...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Measuring and Managing Quality of Customer Experience for NTL Interactive TV Users
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In 2001, NTL commissioned external consultants to provide high-level reports on the viability of using Capacity Planning to monitor and measure the level of service provided to the company's...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Capita Using Athene Capacity Planning and Performance Management Software
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Capita had been awarded an outsourcing contract for a major client whose principal function is to process (utilising a 24 x 400 Mhz Unix system) some four million applications each year. Problems...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Athene Selected as Tool of Choice by Capgemini
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Nick Varley, Performance and Capacity Specialist at Capgemini was responsible for preparing the business case that resulted in the selection of Athene. The need to find a Performance Management...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Wakefield MDC Rolls Out Athene for UNIX and Windows NT Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wakefield MDC wanted to be able to monitor the effect of rolling out Exchange 2000 on performance and whilst the author knew that Metron's Athene had been used on a number of their Unix systems,...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Voice, Data & Networks: Capacity Management at T-Mobile
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
T-Mobile is dedicated to enabling its customers 'Get more' from their mobile services. The philosophy of 'getting more' is one which Graeme Chalklin likes to turn about-face, and direct towards...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Norwich Union - Athene Sets the IT Budget at the UK's Largest Insurance Company
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
When Clive Osborne joined Norwich Union in 1998, the company's Capacity Planning activities were focused solely on their mainframe environment. Eighteen months later and with twenty Unix servers...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Stoke City Council - Tackling Performance Management
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
City Council had invested in a highly specialized document imaging system for the benefits office. Any correspondence or documentation relating to benefits claims could be scanned into the new Sun...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
MCPS / PRS Alliance - Committed to Outsourcing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society), in alliance with the PRS (Performing Right Society), is one of the world's largest music copyright licensing and royalty distribution societies....
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Metron Technology Case Study: Pathway Post Office
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Pathway Project recognized right at the start of the project that given the complexity of the system, its business critical nature and level of transactions, they needed to proactively monitor...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Metron Technology Case Study: Stoke City Council
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The City of Stoke-on-Trent has a population of over 250,000 and covers an area of just over 36 square miles. The ceramics sector is a major source of employment for the area. Housing, an area...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Protecting Performance
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
About one thousand MCPS staff need to access and use the data on a regular basis, together with the Society's membership, numbering about 6,500. In the future it is also planned to allow access to...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Taxing Issues in the USA
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
THE Distributed Capacity Management Section (DCMS) is the group within the IRS responsible for this area of activity. According to DCMS, the greatest benefit of Athene is its modeling capability,...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Capacity Planning at Transco - Automation Is the Key
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Transco initially look at three primary resources each month: CPU utilization/queuing, memory utilization and I/O performance - although the particular metrics selected to do this vary according...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Capacity Planning at the Heart of One2One's Aggressive Growth
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The team at One2One is responsible for the day to day Capacity Management of all the company's Unix machines. These Unix machines handle the vast majority of all the company's other applications,...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Managing Healthcare Computing - Performance Management and System Prediction for Health Authorities
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Each time Family Heath Systems (FHS) receive a new project from the Department of Health, often a major database implementation, they had to reconfigure or upgrade the existing machines, or invest...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
An Amicable Choice - Athene for UNIX Client/Server Performance Management
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Faced with the challenge of extending the use of a document imaging system to some two hundred and fifty users in a UNIX-based client/server environment, IS Team Manager at Scottish Amicable's...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Real Time Processing - Capacity Planning at WHSmith
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Capacity Planning team at the Swindon-based IT headquarters for W H Smith has adopted Metron's Athene/Unix Performance Management software. The software is being used to analyze and monitor...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
250,000 Customers + 4,000 Users at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council in the west Midlands cares for a population of over a quarter of a million, and not surprisingly, has extensive IT capabilities to handle the volume of everyday...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Athene at British Printing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Malcolm Cotsworth, Technical Support Manager for British Printing Company was keen to adopt a proactive approach to caring for his users: They were the central action desk for any problems from...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Power and Performance at Southern Electric
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Southern Electric is undertaking a major two year programme to redevelop the engineering systems. The system will thus provide engineers with detailed plans of the region and enable them to...
Provided by Metron Technology
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Case Studies
Lord Chancellor's Department - Laying Down the Law
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the increasing number of systems which Lord Chancellor's Department are installing and their importance to the efficient and effective running of the Department, they wanted to support them...
Provided by Metron Technology
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White Papers
A Roadmap to Success in Capacity Management or Why Real-Time Monitors Are a Waste of Time!
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is entitled 'Dash and Risk' and addresses practical experience in finding and applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the Capacity Management Process (CMP) as actioned by a...
Provided by Metron Technology
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White Papers
Performance Analysis and Tuning for DB2 UDB
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper concentrates on DB2 UDB for distributed systems and is intended as an introduction to DB2 performance concepts for those with some experience of other DBMSs. Section 2 compares and...
Provided by Metron Technology
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White Papers
Performance Management and Security Assurance for UNIX and Windows
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security of computer systems is a growing issue and is not satisfied by office security, firewalls, virus checkers, passwords, network administration and dial-back modems alone. A whole array of...
Provided by Metron Technology
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White Papers
Performance Management - Good Practice
February 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper offers justification for the broader view of performance management held within Metron. Too often the potential financial benefits of effective performance management are not achieved....
Provided by Metron Technology
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White Papers
Performance Management - Good Practice
February 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper offers justification for the broader view of performance management held within Metron. Too often the potential financial benefits of effective performance management are not achieved....
Provided by Metron Technology
-
White Papers
Performance Management and Security Assurance for UNIX and Windows
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security of computer systems is a growing issue and is not satisfied by office security, firewalls, virus checkers, passwords, network administration and dial-back modems alone. A whole array of...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
White Papers
Performance Analysis and Tuning for DB2 UDB
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper concentrates on DB2 UDB for distributed systems and is intended as an introduction to DB2 performance concepts for those with some experience of other DBMSs. Section 2 compares and...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
White Papers
A Roadmap to Success in Capacity Management or Why Real-Time Monitors Are a Waste of Time!
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is entitled 'Dash and Risk' and addresses practical experience in finding and applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the Capacity Management Process (CMP) as actioned by a...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Lord Chancellor's Department - Laying Down the Law
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the increasing number of systems which Lord Chancellor's Department are installing and their importance to the efficient and effective running of the Department, they wanted to support them...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Power and Performance at Southern Electric
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Southern Electric is undertaking a major two year programme to redevelop the engineering systems. The system will thus provide engineers with detailed plans of the region and enable them to...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Athene at British Printing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Malcolm Cotsworth, Technical Support Manager for British Printing Company was keen to adopt a proactive approach to caring for his users: They were the central action desk for any problems from...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
250,000 Customers + 4,000 Users at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council in the west Midlands cares for a population of over a quarter of a million, and not surprisingly, has extensive IT capabilities to handle the volume of everyday...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Real Time Processing - Capacity Planning at WHSmith
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Capacity Planning team at the Swindon-based IT headquarters for W H Smith has adopted Metron's Athene/Unix Performance Management software. The software is being used to analyze and monitor...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
An Amicable Choice - Athene for UNIX Client/Server Performance Management
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Faced with the challenge of extending the use of a document imaging system to some two hundred and fifty users in a UNIX-based client/server environment, IS Team Manager at Scottish Amicable's...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Managing Healthcare Computing - Performance Management and System Prediction for Health Authorities
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Each time Family Heath Systems (FHS) receive a new project from the Department of Health, often a major database implementation, they had to reconfigure or upgrade the existing machines, or invest...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Capacity Planning at the Heart of One2One's Aggressive Growth
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The team at One2One is responsible for the day to day Capacity Management of all the company's Unix machines. These Unix machines handle the vast majority of all the company's other applications,...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Capacity Planning at Transco - Automation Is the Key
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Transco initially look at three primary resources each month: CPU utilization/queuing, memory utilization and I/O performance - although the particular metrics selected to do this vary according...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Taxing Issues in the USA
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
THE Distributed Capacity Management Section (DCMS) is the group within the IRS responsible for this area of activity. According to DCMS, the greatest benefit of Athene is its modeling capability,...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Protecting Performance
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
About one thousand MCPS staff need to access and use the data on a regular basis, together with the Society's membership, numbering about 6,500. In the future it is also planned to allow access to...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Metron Technology Case Study: Stoke City Council
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The City of Stoke-on-Trent has a population of over 250,000 and covers an area of just over 36 square miles. The ceramics sector is a major source of employment for the area. Housing, an area...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Metron Technology Case Study: Pathway Post Office
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Pathway Project recognized right at the start of the project that given the complexity of the system, its business critical nature and level of transactions, they needed to proactively monitor...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
MCPS / PRS Alliance - Committed to Outsourcing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society), in alliance with the PRS (Performing Right Society), is one of the world's largest music copyright licensing and royalty distribution societies....
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Stoke City Council - Tackling Performance Management
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
City Council had invested in a highly specialized document imaging system for the benefits office. Any correspondence or documentation relating to benefits claims could be scanned into the new Sun...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Norwich Union - Athene Sets the IT Budget at the UK's Largest Insurance Company
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
When Clive Osborne joined Norwich Union in 1998, the company's Capacity Planning activities were focused solely on their mainframe environment. Eighteen months later and with twenty Unix servers...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Voice, Data & Networks: Capacity Management at T-Mobile
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
T-Mobile is dedicated to enabling its customers 'Get more' from their mobile services. The philosophy of 'getting more' is one which Graeme Chalklin likes to turn about-face, and direct towards...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Wakefield MDC Rolls Out Athene for UNIX and Windows NT Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wakefield MDC wanted to be able to monitor the effect of rolling out Exchange 2000 on performance and whilst the author knew that Metron's Athene had been used on a number of their Unix systems,...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Athene Selected as Tool of Choice by Capgemini
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Nick Varley, Performance and Capacity Specialist at Capgemini was responsible for preparing the business case that resulted in the selection of Athene. The need to find a Performance Management...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Capita Using Athene Capacity Planning and Performance Management Software
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Capita had been awarded an outsourcing contract for a major client whose principal function is to process (utilising a 24 x 400 Mhz Unix system) some four million applications each year. Problems...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Measuring and Managing Quality of Customer Experience for NTL Interactive TV Users
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In 2001, NTL commissioned external consultants to provide high-level reports on the viability of using Capacity Planning to monitor and measure the level of service provided to the company's...
Provided by Metron Technology
-
Case Studies
Insuring the Present and the Future at Allianz
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although Allianz is a long-standing user of Metron's Athene software, Roy Cawthra believes that the product is now more important than ever before. It is being used to provide regular capacity...
Provided by Metron Technology
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