Published Papers
Metron's consultants are regularly called upon to provide up to the minute papers that detail current developments in Performance Management at technical and managerial conferences throughout the world. A library of the most relevant papers has been provided in downloadable form in this section.
 
In December 2011 Metron’s Adam Grummitt was awarded the prestigious Michelson award and became the 20th President of CMG. 
Click here to see a PowerPoint presentation showing Adam’s acceptance speech.
 
Technical Papers are available to download as Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf) below. To view these files Acrobat Reader is required.
 
VMware vSphere – Avoiding an Internal Storm
Why do we model in the UK, monitor in Japan & manage in the USA?
Correlsense and_Metron - Transaction-based_Capacity_Planning for greater IT Reliability™
Proven Practice - Implementing ITIL® v3 Capacity Management in a VMware environment
Mind the gap
Knot not ITIL
Dash and risk
Xen - A real alternative to VMware?
A roadmap to success in Capacity Management
HP OpenView and ITIL® v2 Capacity Management
ITIL® v2 Capacity Managment, more than charts over coffee
Performance assured by Capacity Management
Six sensible steps towards implementing ITIL Capacity Management
Slam Dunk, service level agreement management
Top ten myths
Workload and server consolidation whitepaper
Corporate Performance Management as a pragmatic process in an ITIL® world
Too many servers, not enough eyes (or - Where did all these servers come from?!?)
Performance Analysis and Tuning for DB2 UDB
Oracle Performance Management on major Operating Systems: WULZ
Managing the Server Farm Better - effective automatic advice for the performance analyst
Creative Statistics - are performance numbers absolute or is spin inevitable in their presentation?
Performance Management and Security Assurance for UNIX & Windows
athene® Client-Server Performance Management
What do they Really Want to Know? Presenting technical reports to management
athene® Performance and Capacity Management Justification
Automated Performance Management Advice Using Computational Intelligence
Performance Management - Good Practice
Performance Management of Oracle-based systems on UNIX
Performance Management and Capacity Planning for mainframe Oracle systems
Mathematics of Metron's Ethernet Model