Precise helps EMC customers optimize storage for both cost and performance. Precise Transaction Performance Management (TPM) tracks the path of transactions from end-to-end, storing both the business context and performance details from each tier to the Precise Performance Management Database (PMDB^TM).  By correlating these requests with the files, devices, or disks being accessed, Precise enables:

Transacton Performance Management for EMC-based applications
Precise TPM detects performance or contention problems anywhere in the transaction.  Detailed diagnostics from every tier pinpoints root cause to accelerate resolution.

Business storage tiering for EMC storage arrays
Our Storage Tiering Optimizer feeds PMDB data into models of EMC performance.  This allows us to predict the impact data migration to different EMC storage tiers (SATA or EFDs) and recommend strategies to maximize business transaction performance at the lowest cost.

Precise solutions for EMC come in two different configurations, a base version focused on Database and Storage and a more robust version which provides end-to-end visibility for all application transcations.

Solution Benefits

All of Precise's solutions for EMC provide unmatched transaction visibility deep into storage, allowing customers to:

• correlate database activity with files, volumes, logical storage devices and disks they access
• automatically detect disk contention and provide actionable advice to eliminate it by moving files to a new device
• push past performance symptoms which paint storage as the culprit and drill into the real root cause-whether it lies in the application tier, overloaded database servers, poorly formed SQL, or poor database design
• accurately predict the performance impact of tiering data on either EFD's or SATA, and automatically recommend data assignment to either tier
• receive actionable advice and recommendations to accelerate performance problem resolution
• perform "what-if" testing to assess impact and reduce risk before any changes are made
• enable storage tiering strategies based on real business priority. These strategies can be on a per-database, per-SQL query, or even a per-business transaction level of granularity.