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| Industry | Software Development |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado |
Key people | Matt Larson |
| Products | Confio Ignite |
| Website | http://www.confio.com |
Confio Software is a software development company that enables collaboration among developers and database administrators (DBAs) while providing real-time visibility into the production database environment. (CTR)(CONFIO) In 2012, Inc. Magazine ranked Confio as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. (INC) Matt Larson founded the company in 2004 and currently serves as the CEO. (INC)(DBJ)
History
Founded in 2004, Confio’s software development, support, sales and marketing staff is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. (CONFIO) Confio, which has customers around the world, opened a new UK sales office in London in 2012. Fueled by several years of double-digit growth, the privately held company doubled the size of its Boulder headquarters in 2012 to accommodate a larger workforce. (DC)
Products
Confio Ignite, which is the company’s flagship software solution, improves service and reduces the cost of operating Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and SAP Sybase databases in physical or VMware virtual environments. Ignite provides developers, DBAs and managers with a comprehensive, graphical view into the true performance of the database and enables users to accurately pinpoint and fix database performance issues through response-time analysis. (SSWUG)(VP)
Ignite is a DevOps database solution that is cross-platform and agentless, putting no additional load on monitored database instances. Ignite captures and analyzes response-time statistics from thousands of database instances and virtual servers and then makes the results available in an easy-to-understand graphic form that shows how long users are waiting on any given query and why the wait is occurring. (DBTA)(CTR)(CONFIO)
Databases and VMware
Additionally, Confio is known for its analysis of database performance for databases on VMware virtual servers, particularly for Oracle. (DBOP) In 2012, a widely visible project was completed at the University of Indiana using Confio Ignite for Oracle and SQL Server on a VMware virtual environment that improved the database response time significantly. (CFO)(UITS)
Educational Resources
Separate from its commercial product information, Confio maintains LogicalRead, a repository of database performance-related resources. LogicalRead includes contributions from a variety of database experts, with new and previously licensed technical content focused on technical topics of interest to database performance professionals. LogicalRead was initially released in December 2012. (CFO)(DLT)
Awards and recognition
In 2012, Inc. Magazine ranked Confio as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. (INC) Also in 2012, Confio was named #317 to the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. (DLT)
External Links
LogicalRead, a site of database performance resources