Table of Contents

• On the Use of Performance Models to Design Self-Managing Computer SystemsDaniel A. Menascé, Mohamed N. Bennani. 1-9
• DB2 z/OS Version 8 Impacts on Design and PerformanceSusan Lawson. 11-20
• Performance Implications of Hyper-ThreadingYiping Ding, Ethan D. Bolker, Arjun Kumar. 21-29
• Evaluating Server Load Balancing SolutionsSanjay Raja. 31-37
• Switching Hardware Platforms: From Solaris to Linux and Surviving!Sidney W. Soberman. 39-43
• Virtual Memory Constraints in 32-bit WindowsMark B. Friedman. 45-56
• Web Load Testing Made Easy: Testing with WCAT and WAST for Windows ApplicationsEllen M. Friedman, Jerry L. Rosenberg. 57-82
• Best Practices for Software Performance EngineeringConnie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams. 83-92
• WLM - The Lives and Times of Transactions on z/OSPeter A. Enrico. 93-102
• Scaling Up Java Applications on Windows ServersPeter Johnson, Avi Sadhu. 103-111
• PetStore-WS: Measuring the Performance Implications of Web ServicesKai S. Juse, Samuel Kounev, Alejandro P. Buchmann. 113-123
• Performance and Scalability Verification of .NET ApplicationS. R. Renuka. 125-128
• An Approach to Modeling FICON Channel PerformanceAlexandre Brandwajn. 129-137
• Is There Value in the RFP Process?John H. Silver. 139-144
• Platune - Take Back the Data Center!Kelly L. Vogt. 145-148
• Is WebSphere Too Heavy?William R. Sullivan. 149-159
• The Capacity Plan - IT Power ToolTom Holloran. 161-168
• Men are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Web Services are From BetelgeuseDenise P. Kalm, Annie W. Shum. 169-177
• Workload Modeling for Web-based SystemsShubhashis Sengupta, Rajeshwari Ganesan. 179-186
• Time Stable Workload Characterization TechniquesRonald R. Kaminski. 187-196
• The Service Quality ImperativePerry A. Gibson. 197-207
• Mainframe Scalability in the Windows EnvironmentMichael A. Salsburg. 209-215
• Performance and Capacity Planning Basics For Storage NetworkingGreg P. Schulz. 217-224
• The Value of IT: A Strategic PerspectiveRick Lebsack. 225-234
• Measurement Principles for Web ServicesJeffrey P. Buzen, Leo F. Parker. 235-239
• On Automated Monitoring and Reporting of Enterprise Quality of ServiceMike Tsykin, James P. Bouhana. 241-251
• Three Network Technologies and Their Effect on SQL Server PerformanceRobert A. Johnson. 253-263
• Zen and the Art of Application Performance ManagementCraig Hodgins. 265-272
• {Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Large-Scale J2EE ApplicationsSamuel Kounev, Alejandro P. Buchmann. 273-283
• Access Path Selection: Evolution and RevolutionFrank J. Ingrassia. 285-301
• Server Consolidation and Grid Computing: Performance ImplicationsYiping Ding, Kenneth Newman. 303-313
• Projecting the Impact of a Server Consolidation on a Network: A Case Study Using NotesSue L. Rosansky. 315-320
• Responsive ConsolidationMichael A. Salsburg. 321-325
• Passive Measurements for Performance Analysis of E-Business SitesS. R. Renuka. 327-330
• Securing Storage NetworksGreg P. Schulz. 331-342
• End-to-End Performance Monitoring and Protocol Overhead Measurements for Mobile Internet Access ServicesRobert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen, Pieter J. Meulenhoff. 343-348
• Making the Business Case for Software Performance EngineeringLloyd G. Williams, Connie U. Smith. 349-358
• Disk Subsystem Capacity Management, Based on Business Drivers, I/O Performance Metrics and MASFIgor A. Trubin, Linwood Merritt. 359-368
• Measuring CPU Time from Hyper-Threading Enabled Intel ProcessorsScott Johnson. 369-378
• Strategic Performance Management for New ApplicationsBoris E. Zibitsker, Barry Hicks. 379-384
• Exchange 2000 RAID 1+0 versus RAID 5 Performance on a Hitachi Thunder Series 9570V™ SystemJoe Carlisle. 385-396
• From Raw Data to Management Reports - Historical Performance Data Made UsefulBradford Camp, Christopher Lynn. 397-407
• The Buffer Pool Hit Ratio is Dead!Joel Goldstein. 409-415
• Selling the Upgrade in Pictures and WordsRobert E. Chaney. 417-425
• The Mysteries of Patents UnraveledMelissa Haapala, Libby Hope, Mark Trenner. 427-433
• Benchmarking a Networked Backup System Using Natural Workloads: Transforming Interesting Data into Useful InformationDale Bryan Drake. 435-449
• Workload Characterization and Capacity Planning for MS SQL ServerYefim Somin. 451-460
• Demand Management - Measuring the Piece of StringAmanda H. Goddard. 461-467
• No More Downloading - Using SAS/ODS to Create Graphs and HTML Documents for OS/390 SystemsPatricia E. Wingfield. 469-475
• How to Create a Web Service with .NETBernard Domanski. 477-503
• Understanding FICON Channel Path MetricsH. Pat Artis. 505-514
• A Study of Capacity Planning for Database Management Systems with OLAP WorkloadsXilin Cui, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley. 515-526
• Performance Assured by Capacity Management: Experience Refined Through ITIL PracticeAdam Grummitt. 527-538
• Introduction to the ITIL Framework & the Capacity Management ProcessPorter D. Sherman. 539-547
• Effective Policy Management ApproachesSteven M. Halladay, Charles A. Milligan. 549-553
• A Comparison Approach to Public Sector IT Investment and IT Management Effects on PerformanceChristopher P. Strasser. 555-566
• Response Time: If You Can t Beat It... Hide ItJack B. Woolley. 567-572
• Performance Diagnosis for IIS6 Through Request TrackingInsung Park, Melur K. Raghuraman. 573-580
• The Case of the Unaffinitized ApplicationMichael A. Salsburg. 581-585
• Virtually EverythingMichael A. Salsburg. 587-595
• Storage Networking Primer and UpdateGreg P. Schulz. 597-607
• A Kernel Library for Benchmark Program GeneratorsJozo J. Dujmovic, Sakir M. Cengiz. 609-618
• Effect of Service Disciplines on Waiting Time in M/M/(1, n) SystemsRobert N. Will. 619-625
• Enforcing Quality of Service Using Decentralized Runtime Feedback ControlYixin Diao, Bruno Ciciani, Catherine H. Crawford. 627-638
• SWAT: A Tool for Stress Testing Session-based Web ApplicationsDiwakar Krishnamurthy, Jerome A. Rolia, Shikharesh Majumdar. 639-649
• Large Scale Processor Reference (LSPR) And Its ImplicationsGregory V. Caliri. 651-656
• Design and Sizing of an Enterprise Backup and Recovery SolutionTim Follen, Judi Britt. 657-667
• Methodology to Quantify the Performance Characteristics of Web Based Server SystemsDominique A. Heger. 669-679
• IBM s WLC - Impact on Performance and Capacity PlanningAlan M. Sherkow. 681-687
• TCP/IP Performance Management for DummiesNalini J. Elkins. 689-690
• Automating Process and Workload Pathology DetectionRonald R. Kaminski. 691-700
• From System Management to Service ManagementFlavio Gaj. 701-715
• More New Software Antipatterns: Even More Ways to Shoot Yourself in the FootConnie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams. 717-725
• The Seven Steps to Highly Effective STROBE UseCraig Hodgins. 727-730
• A Roadmap to Success in Capacity Management (or - Why Real-time Monitors are a Waste of Time!)Tim Foxon. 731-737
• Performance Management at an Earth Science Supercomputer CenterRichard Glassbrook, James W. McGalliard. 739-750
• Managing Mainframe Performance in a Web Based WorldG. Jay Lipovich. 751-759
• A Bottom-Up Approach to DB2 for z/OS Application Performance Reporting and TuningDaniel L. Luksetich. 761-764
• A Trading System on The Internet: Competing on Performance Against an Existing SystemMark M. Maccabee. 765-776
• Performance ForensicsBob Sneed. 777-788
• A Simplified Initial Approach To Identifying the Root Cause of End-to-End Performance ProblemsBrian Johnson. 789-793
• Determining Labor Content of IS ServicesThomas E. Bell, Computer Cost Accounting. 795-802
• Business Metrics and Capacity PlanningRonald R. Kaminski, Yiping Ding. 803-811
• DB2 UDB ESE Capacity Management TradeoffsBoris E. Zibitsker. 813-820
• Using the JVMPI to Understand the Behavior of Java Classes During the Development ProcessCarl J. De Pasquale. 821-831
• The Design of the SPC-2 BenchmarkBruce McNutt. 833-837
• Midrange Server Resource MiningTom Hatcher, Rick L. Keck. 839-846
• Hackers, Viruses, DoS, Oh No!Richard D. Austin. 847-855
• Workload Manager Phase III - Getting WLM to Work for YouIan C. Baldwin. 857-874