HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwired) — 10/15/13 — , a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced version 8.0 of its award-winning Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager. Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager provides 24×7 performance monitoring, alerting and diagnostics. In the new release, SQL Diagnostic Manager delivers greater control, manageability and scalability. New enhancements include SQL Diagnostic Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center (SCOM), AlwaysOn Availability Group monitoring, configuration audit changes, and support for SQL Server 2014. Idera will demonstrate the new SQL Diagnostic Manager at SQL PASS Summit from October 15-18 in Charlotte, NC.

Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager enables thousands of customers around the world to consistently monitor in-depth health, performance, and growth metrics for SQL environments. With SQL Diagnostic Manager, database administrators (DBAs) minimize costly server downtime with agent-less performance monitoring and alerting. This accelerates diagnosis and remediation of performance and availability problems at the individual server level. New features in SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.0 include:

Integrates the key SQL Server monitor and alert performance metrics from SQL Diagnostic Manager into Microsoft-s Systems Center console.

Helps users manage the topology of AlwaysOn availability groups in SQL Server 2012. SQL Diagnostic Manager will monitor server performance and send alerts to ensure a given SQL Server runs on the designated node in the event of failover to a secondary server.

Now DBAs can audit configuration changes made in SQL Diagnostic Manager. The changes will display in the change log as an event, allowing DBAs to track user activity and create an audit trail report if needed.

SQL Diagnostic Manager has been tested to work with pre-release copies of SQL Server 2014.

Improved monitoring, alerting and reporting of blocking sessions with real-time and historical views, as well as the ability to conduct bulk diagnostic tests to multiple servers.

Idera has added several key features to its award-winning product to enable DBAs greater customization and flexibility as they dive deeper into SQL Server performance. Recent enhancements include:

Complete insight into the performance of virtualized SQL Server databases. View performance metrics and alerts for VMs and related ESX hosts including CPU, memory, disk usage, network throughput and more.

Quickly identify and resolve tempdb-related performance issues with tempdb monitoring and diagnostic views, displaying information such as allocation page contention, snapshot isolation version store growth, and session-based consumption of space in tempdb.

Access SQL Diagnostic Manager from anywhere via a smart phone (iPhone, Android and BlackBerry) or tablet. View real-time and historical SQL Server performance data, view or kill sessions, start/stop jobs, and run queries to resolve or diagnose issues remotely.

Visualize server performance events as a timeline calendar instead of a list of events. Color-coded events simplify differentiation and a sliding scale provides the ability to zoom in to a specific timeframe. This reports simultaneous events in an easy-to-read format for quicker trend analysis and remediation.

View server baseline performance and compare a server-s baseline values over time — ranges as well as across different servers. Generate reports that show the baseline in the given performance metric-s graph or chart, allowing for better capacity planning for new servers.

Gain per-database or per-disk alerts on OS Disk Full, OS Database Full, and OS Log Full shown for specific sizes in GBs or MBs, as well as a percentage of the total database size.

Dramatically expands display of performance data and simplifies troubleshooting. Eight key areas Overview, Session, Queries, Wait Stats, Disk Counters, Databases, Services, Logs are displayed with color-coding of red and yellow, indicating the areas triggering alerts to specific thresholds, to guide user action.

Users can customize Server Dashboards to see the performance information most relevant to their environment. Dashboards can be saved as templates, viewed in a gallery, and shared across servers or among console users.

“SQL Diagnostic Manager has long been one of Idera-s most successful products because customers value monitoring SQL Server health and delivering deep-dive performance analytics,” said Randy Jacops, CEO of Idera. “The new features and functionality, along with support for SQL 2014, provide both the enhanced management and increased customization that SQL Server DBAs need to manage mission-critical servers.”

Idera-s SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.0 is available today and starts at $1,995 per instance. For more information or to download, please visit .

Idera is a leading provider of application and server management solutions. Idera provides a wide variety of application performance management products including solutions for Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint. Idera also provides award-winning server backup solutions for both managed service providers and enterprise customers.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera is a Microsoft Managed Partner and has over 12,000 customers worldwide. Contact Idera at +1-713-523-4433 or visit for free trials, free tools and more information.

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