Red Hat Services Speak

by Wander Boessenkool (Red Hat)

Tuning systems can be a time consuming art. Not only does it involve extensive profiling of your systems, as well as continuous monitoring, but keeping tuning setting applied continuously can be quite a chore as well. Especially if the tuning needs of your systems change throughout the day.

Imagine a database system that is used to process orders from customers. In this specific system orders come in in bulk between 08:00 and 18:00, but the other 14 hours in a day and during the weekends the machine is mostly idling. We could tune this system for power efficiency, so as not to waste to much energy during the 118 hours a week it is doing almost nothing, or we could tune it for peak performance during the 50 hours a week the system is heavily utilized.

With a traditional setup switching between those two extremes would be either very cumbersome, with an administrator having to make those changes by hand, or it would require extensive scripting and testing to automate.

by Mike Randall (Red Hat)

When you start a blog there are some questions that must be answered: Who is the blog for? What are we going to write about? Will they care about what we have to say? Does this content exist elsewhere?

Before we share those answers, let’s provide a little context.

Services Speak is a blog on behalf of Red Hat Services, an organization dedicated to developing and implementing Red Hat’s consulting and training initiatives. Combining these two subjects makes it inclusive of quite a few audiences and encompassing countless topics, but in the world of IT, these two groups are tied together by one thing: a common desire for improvement. Just think about it for a second. A professional takes a course or works toward a certification because they want to build their skills and advance their career, or they bring in consultants to optimize the technologies and processes they use.

Improvement increases the chances of success.

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