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Put Your NT/2000 System On STEROIDS!

Are your users complaining about slow response times?

No budget for a hardware upgrade?

Having performance problems on your Exchange Servers?

AutoPilot® is a Breakthrough Automatic Win NT/2000 Performance Tuner!

Instant results
For instance, we have seen busy Exchange Servers' performance go up to 40 percent.

Product Features
There are only three categories of software based performance enhancement tools: disk-related utilities like defraggers, memory- related like caching/RAM disks and third are automated tuning tools.

AutoPilot® is the first automated tuner for NT/2000. And it is a great solution for busy systems! Tuners are basically 'expert systems' that can make intelligent and instant decisions to improve performance.

AutoPilot® is being developed by people that come from a supercomputer background and are trained to squeeze the last cycle out of systems. AutoPilot® is an excellent example of a highly sophisticated and advanced neural network that is able to look at the hardware, NT/2000 and the applications running. Then AutoPilot® improves performance in real-time. We also have found that users tell us their systems run more stable.

Ever wondered why NT/2000 systems does not scale like Unix/Risc? Well, successful Unix platforms have hard- and software come from one and the same vendor. In other words, the different flavors of Unix are optimized for their specific hardware. In the case of Microsoft and Intel, it's not that easy. NT/2000 and the Intel Chips are not aware of each other. In short, Microsoft and Intel cannot optimize their respective platforms for each other!

It took a third party like AutoPilot® to get these two together. AutoPilot® looks directly into the Pentium chip and into NT/2000, and matches the two up better than any of them can individually. The results can be pretty good. But pictures say more than words. Have a look at this industry benchmark, this was run on a 4-way SMP P6 with 256Meg RAM. Red is the baseline, blue is tuned with AutoPilot®. With 44 clients performance is TWICE as fast.

"Continuing improvements in performance and reliability are key areas of interest for customers. Autopilot® delivers a solution that strives to improve horsepower and throughput by alleviating bottlenecks." said Bob O'Brien lead product manager, BackOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Product Benefits

Increased performance and scalability
More throughput at a fraction of the cost of any other performance upgrade
Effortless. 'Install and forget'
Extends the life of your hardware investment
Works as well on a single CPU NT Workstation as on SMP machines
Plug and Play - No modifications required - No patches, no changes in hardware or applications either. AutoPilot® comes in two flavors, one for NT and one for W2K. On both platforms it will squeeze maximum power out of the combination of the hardware, applications and the OS. No more time wasted with painful and time consuming baselining and tinkering with parameters. With AutoPilot® on your systems you will be SURE that you get the maximum out of that box.

Images, Diagrams and Screen Shots

APBench. This is on an IBM 300PL W/S, 600MB/s, 384MB Ram. 10 GB Hd. Running Win NT4 SP6a with Lotus Notes open. YES, it works.

AutoPilot® P/SA Implementation diagram showing the different collectors modules

Chart that shows improvements in Exchange performance with up to 2000 clients

AutoPilot® Architecture Diagram

Diagram showing system bus utilization with and without AutoPilot®

This diagram shows the processing efficiency based on concurrent tasks as optimized by AutoPilot®

ServerBench 3.0 diagram that shows how Transactions Per Seconds (TPC) versus the number of clients. AutoPilot® (in blue) clearly demonstrates the increased processing power when installed

SPECWeb96 Response Time chart that shows better performance (in blue) with AutoPilot® installed

After optimization by AutoPilot®, this diagram illustrates the increase in TPC based on 4 node Pentium cluster running NT4.0 and SQL Server 6.5

White Papers, Documents and Other Files

This is a benchmark that puts the system under strain and allows you to run with and without AutoPilot. This is shareware, read the help file. (EXE - 502,438 bytes)

AutoPilot® documentation (ZIP - 139,334 bytes)

GIGA Group analysis of AutoPilot® (PDF - 77,563 bytes)

Product Requirements

Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows NT4 Server
Windows NT4 Workstation
Windows NT3.51
SQL Server
Exchange
MS Cluster Server

Minimum Hardware Required
CPU Pentium 166
RAM 32
HD (Install) 4MB
HD (Operating) 4MB

Additional Requirement Notes
Make sure you create your baseline statistics BEFORE enabling AutoPilot®. We have provided the APBench tool to do this, so remember to download that too!