Conclusion

The industry needs to continue to innovate ways to manage the performance of complex software systems. The end of traditional people-powered performance management is near. No longer is it good enough to have a couple of smart performance experts to tune and tweak the performance of mission-critical applications. Computers must be engaged to use internal data coming from these systems to automatically tune the systems for peak performance and maximum utilization. Whether called on-demand computing, cluster computing, grid computing, or utility computing, some of the largest technology companies in the world have invested and continue to invest in this new generation of solutions.

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