systems and deliver more value with less investment. This article discusses how an organisation can maximise thereturn on new and existing investment by getting the maximum out of the firm’s IT infrastructure through end-to-end performance tuning and management.

Functionality centric focus combined with lack of resources and time, results in inherent flaws in the design of application or coding style. Sometimes, application testing is conducted with scaled down environment to just test the functionality and not performance and eventually, performance problems under high work load conditions are left to be faced during production. Clearly, special attention to performance, improvement of existing deployments is required to meet these challenges. The benefits are manifold and not limited to a high