Core Services
Performance Analysis
Whether you are in the private or public sector, business conditions can change rapidly. Your computing performance must therefore adapt and be scalable and flexible enough to accommodate new capabilities.
Instrumental’s Performance Analysis Services examine processes, roles and responsibilities. Our process starts with a complete assessment that analyzes your business requirements for computing speed, growth, disaster protection availability and backup/restore.
Our comprehensive list of services include the following:
System Assessment
- Architecture and configuration capture and documentation
- System services characterization
- Workload characterization
- Functional efficacy assessment
- Scalability assessment
- Latency characterization
- Resource utilization
- Bottleneck detection
- Throughput and capacity assessment
- System and data access security assessment
- Reliability and availability assessment
- Fail-over efficacy analysis
- System simulation and modeling
- User-satisfaction assessment
- Recommendations for system improvement
System Requirements Analysis
- Identification, definition and documentation of system and subsystem services and behavioral characteristics of site or application-specific systems
- Problem statement definition
- Operational domain definition
- Use-case scenario analysis
- Constraint identification
- Behavioral requirements definition (function and performance)
- Definition of system services
- Customer, user, or marketing personnel interviews
- Enterprise analysis
- Technology assessment
- Architectural and system simulation and modeling
System & Component Benchmarking
- Absolute and comparative assessment and demonstration of performance levels of site-specific systems and component deployments as well as OEM products
- Characterization of throughput, latency, utilization, service demands, error/retry rates, etc., for varying workload conditions using industry-standard benchmarking tools
Workload Characterization
- Assessment, analysis and reporting of current or projected system workload levels and mix
- Occasion-specific or recurring service
- Service demand breakdown
- Temporal variation analysis
- Customer/source breakdown
- Utilization, latency, availability, reliability and /or service agreement correlation
- Stochastic workload modeling
Data Storage & Management Assessment
- Analysis and reporting of site-specific data storage architecture and policy characteristics and behavior (function and performance)
- Architecture and configuration capture and documentation
- File services characterization
- Workload and service demand characterization
- Functional efficacy and storage management policy assessment
- Scalability assessment
- Latency characterization
- Resource utilization
- Throughput and capacity assessment
- File integrity assessment
- File access security assessment
- Reliability and availability assessment
- Fail-over efficacy analysis
- System and workload modeling and simulation
- User-satisfaction assessment
- Recommendations for system improvement
Virtual Pathology Testing
- Investigation, characterization, demonstration, analysis and documentation of unexpected or unacceptable system states, flaws, error conditions, or misuse using modeling and simulation technology
- Requirements, architectural and design specification review
- Model design, implementation and documentation
- Behavioral experimentation, demonstration and test
- What-if exploration
- Behavioral analysis
- Risk and impact analysis
- Cause and effect exploration and demonstration
- Reporting and documentation
Component and Product Modeling
- Creation and implementation of behavioral system and component models primarily for customer or sales-oriented demonstration purposes (as opposed to design analysis and proof of concept)
- Use of third party technology targeted to create portable models that hide intellectual property and that adhere to developing industry-standard model interface protocols
- Product or component design specification review
- Model protocol review
- Model protocol definition and lobbying
- Executable model design, implementation, test and documentation
Real-Time System Performance Analysis
- Assessment of system behavioral properties against real-time performance requirements
- Temporal requirements analysis or review
- Architectural or design review
- Experiment design and execution
- Benchmarking
- Analytical evaluation
- Model design and implementation
- Behavioral demonstration and analysis
- Reporting and documentation