
Under a new partnership Percona will provide SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) for MySQL with its Percona Server software and associated support and services.
Percona offers software solutions, as well as support, consulting and managed services to help enterprises maximize database application performance, eliminate performance issues, and scale their database deployments. SolarWinds DPA for MySQL offers database administrators, application developers and operations teams enterprise-grade database performance tuning, metric visibility and resource correlation based on a unique wait-time analytics approach to help improve the performance of corporate, cloud and SaaS applications from within a single management dashboard.
Percona will provide SolarWinds DPA for MySQL along with Percona Support and Percona Care Services.
Key features of SolarWinds DPA for MySQL include:
- Wait-time analysis, resource and response time correlation for Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis™, and history and dynamic baselines.
- A single management dashboard provides visibility across on-premises, cloud and hybrid IT environments.
- A comprehensive view of how every aspect of the system affects performance across SQL database operations, host server and OS, virtualization resources, and storage I/O enables database managers to quickly find bottlenecks and troubleshoot complex problems.
SolarWinds DPA for MySQL supports a mix of database engines and deployment options, including MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, SAP ASE, VMware, AWS EC2, RDS and Azure agentless architecture.
Percona has the option to sell additional SolarWinds products, including SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor, and others.
Gerardo Dada, Vice President of Product Marketing, SolarWinds, said: “We’re delighted to be partnering with Percona, a recognized performance expert for MySQL. The visibility SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer provides to application teams and its ability to pinpoint performance problems is truly unique. We believe this joint partnership will help both our users achieve maximum performance for their applications.”
Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO of Percona added: “SolarWinds DPA for MySQL provides customers with another way to optimize their database and application performance and reduce their hardware investments. When they need additional support, Percona will be there 24x7x365 with the most knowledgeable MySQL experts in the industry.”
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