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Deploying SightLine across the Enterprise

This document describes SightLine Systems' recommended best practices for the deploying the SightLine software suite across an existing large-scale Unix infrastructure, including personnel involvement, programming involvement, technical resources, etc. Many of the practices detailed in this document are applicable to a Windows or heterogeneous deployment. A Use Case is included in the paper.

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A Systematic Approach to Performance Evaluation

A Six-Step Approach to Performance Evaluation

Performance evaluation is the process of determining how well an existing or future computer system meets a set of alternative performance objectives. Arbitrarily selecting performance metrics, evaluation techniques, and workloads often leads to inaccurate conclusions.

How should one carry out a performance evaluation study? The answer is to follow a systematic approach, and our six-step methodology is presented here.

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