‘Systems Performance’: A Definitive Guide for the Cloud Enterprise
December 17, 2013
Grazed from eCommerceTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud is a must-have reference guide for any IT manager or sysadmin whose job involves working with computer systems that are tethered to the cloud. Author Brendan Gregg is no newcomer to writing definitive books on computer networks and system performance, but his latest release could well be his best work so far. Gregg received the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration. He is lead performance engineer at Joyent; before that, he was a Solaris kernel engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud is a detailed guide to optimizing systems performance. It treats a topic of immense importance in today’s enterprise computing environments. Large-scale enterprise, cloud and virtualized computing environments face serious new challenges…
Gregg’s latest book addresses these issues by bringing together methodologies, tools and metrics for analyzing and tuning system performance. His primer for getting the best possible system performance focuses primarily on Linux and Unix platforms. Gregg makes ample references to key Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS. He also concentrates on Solaris and its derivatives. He doesn’t ignore related issues relevant to all operating systems, however…
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