PRESS RELEASE
NORTHAMPTON, PA, USA, September 6, 2013—PerfTechPro announced today that it has partnered with Value-4IT, an independent software and professional services company based in the UK, to serve as reseller of its PerfTechPro zAnalytics™ capacity and performance management tool.
Value-4IT specializes in IBM Mainframe cost-reduction projects and software distribution. Typically, its projects focus on TCO reduction and software optimization. Value-4IT also provides efficiency and business management services for IBM Mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms.
PerfTechPro enables precise measurement and analysis of resource usage on IBM’s System z platform. Its affordable and easy-to-use capacity and performance management software gives IT management professionals the ability to measure and manage the efficiency and effectiveness of their enterprise servers.
“We are delighted to represent PerfTechPro’s capacity planning and performance management solutions for distribution throughout Europe,” said Michael Moss, CEO of Value-4IT. “The demonstrable TCO and ROI ethos of PerfTechPro to deliver high-function and cost-efficient capacity planning and performance management solutions is clearly aligned with Value-4IT’s mission to help zSeries customers maximize the efficiency of their enterprise servers,” Moss added.
William Shelden, CEO of PerfTechPro, said “the Value-4IT partnership is an important step in introducing PerfTechPro’s no-nonsense approach to capacity planning and performance management
to new markets.”
“Value-4IT’s intimate understanding of its market and customers will ensure that PerfTechPro’s cost-cutting, performance-enhancing value will be fully exploited,” Shelden said.
Founded by former IBM staffers and capacity planning and performance management industry veterans William Shelden, PhD, and William Hart, PerfTechPro is designed to deliver sophisticated, affordable, easy-to-use solutions for IT management professionals looking for fast, insightful help without high-cost, complex and time-consuming purchasing and licensing requirements.
PerfTechPro is one of the first capacity management tools to provide automated collection, analysis and reporting of the SMF 113 Records produced by the CPU Measurement Facility of IBM’s System z10 and later mainframes. The CPU Measurement Facility, one of IBM’s most sophisticated advances for its enterprise servers, can provide detailed information on how its hardware is interacting with specific workloads. Capacity management professionals can use this information to see how data and instructions are moving within processor cache and memory areas.
By providing automated collection, analysis and reporting of the SMF 113 records produced by the CPU Measurement Facility, PerfTechPro delivers insights that can dramatically reduce costs by allowing IT management professionals to precisely manage the processing capacity of enterprise servers.