Improving System Stability & Reliabilty

System stability problems arise due to undersized servers, improperly tuned services and upgrades, poor configurations, and hardware issues. With application and network stability, concerns about security, available CPU resources, performance, hardware costs, and licensing become important factors to be considered.

Elements That Hinder System Reliability

Due mainly to the desire for hardware cost reduction, server consolidation through performance optimization has been of primary interest. Fewer servers result in lower licensing, maintenance, electricity, and cooling costs. But the motivation behind improved performance isn’t solely about lowering costs. There is a perpetual balance being sought between system performance and ensuring end users receive a consistent experience.

System stability can be achieved through hardware resource optimization including CPU, physical and virtual memory, disk access, and application state. Whether the unstable system symptoms you experience are random segmentation faults, data corruption, hard locks, or lost data, hardware glitches can make your normally reliable operating system barely useable.

If you're experiencing instability problems and suspect they are hardware related, test both your CPU and memory to ensure that they're working at an acceptable level. Even if you haven't experienced these problems, it's still a good idea to perform CPU and memory tests. In doing so, you may detect a hardware problem that could have bitten you at an inopportune time, something that could have caused data loss or hours of frustration as you engage in a frantic search for the source of the problem.

Prevention Remains the Ideal Solution

Make it easier to optimize your settings and free up resources from memory intensive applications. Improve the speed and stability of your system. Optimize CPU usage to critical applications.

As a System Administrator, you’ve worked hard to benchmark a baseline for your network. End users should be able to open multiple applications simultaneously and expect an acceptable level of functionality to support an average workload. All applications have been approved. Yet out of nowhere, someone has utilized an application in a way that has caused a virtual meltdown, bringing work throughout the company to a grinding halt. How do you deal with such dilemmas?

Allowing the use of browsers on your terminal sessions, while not recommended, is sometimes necessary. In these situations, recognizing applications and setting up restrictions can ensure a stable system. This allows users to access unexpected applications that may deviate from your carefully benchmarked baseline without causing irreparable damage.

Reduce system failures by allowing only certain applications to run. Monitor what vital resources are being drained and readjust as necessary. Ensure your PC starts quickly and reliably by removing unwanted programs permanently, which will in turn aid in reducing logon and overall wait time dramatically.

We can prevent such dilemmas by clamping down CPU and memory usage when an application starts to show signs of crashing, looping, or becoming unresponsive.

Ensure System Reliability

triCerat has thoughtfully designed software solutions that address the above concerns to ensure a stable operating system.

Simplify Stability helps you maintain that crucial baseline you’ve worked tirelessly to develop, Simplify Visibility gives insight into system performance with intuitive reporting and monitoring, while Simplify Lockdown controls how your applications are accessed and how they can be run.

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