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- Capacity Management and Demand Prediction for Next Generation Data Centers
- Advances in server, network, and storage virtualization are enabling the creation of resource pools of servers that permit multiple application workloads to share each server in the pool. This paper proposes and evaluates aspects of a capacity management process for automating the efficient use of such pools when hosting large...
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Capacity Management and the CDB: BMC Solutions as the Cornerstone to a Capacity Management Strategy
- A successful capacity management strategy requires having the resources in place to deliver just-in-time support of the business requirements. Integral to that process is the development of a capacity plan based on the data from a Capacity Management Database CDB. According to the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, the CDB is...
- White papers 2006-04-27
- The Role of the Capacity Management Database in the ITIL Capacity Management Process: Extending the CMDB With Capacity Management Data
- Within the capacity management process, the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL recommends to have a Capacity Management Database CDB. According to ITIL, the CDB is the cornerstone of a successful capacity management process as a subset of a Configuration Management DataBase CMDB. This white paper demonstrates the need for capacity management...
- White papers 2006-04-27
- ITIL Capacity Management Deep Dive
- ITIL is continuing to grow in acceptance in IT environments as a model for best practices. This paper provides a low level analysis of the ITIL capacity management discipline. The paper describes the differences between business, service, and resource capacity management, and the need for each to have a proactive...
- White papers 2005-11-09
- The Renaissance of Performance & Capacity Management in the 21st Century
- No sooner does a new piece of technology come along to enable one course of action, than a financial constraint eventually knocks it back again. This is exactly what has happened with performance and capacity management. There needs to be a renaissance in performance and capacity management, but with a...
- White papers 2005-10-12
- An ITIL-Based Approach to Building Effective Storage Capacity Management in Support of ILM
- Capacity management is the foundation for establishing tiered storage in support of the information lifecycle management goals. It is best achieved by following a proven, ITIL based process for determining baseline storage capacity and performance baselines, establishing target utilization rates, and rebalancing assets. Once it is successfully applied capacity management...
- White papers 2004-08-01
Additional Resources
- The real pros and cons of server virtualization
- YepVMwear is starting to look like Windoze - adding unneeded functionality just because it can. Moving VMs around from server to server live - is COOL. But why do you need it? If you are on a consolidation binge and utilization is king, then there will be no "extra" capacity...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-07
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- The perfect computer?
- Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Gas Station Software 10.6 (Windows)
- Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of your sales. Store purchases, fuel sales, fuel purchases, price adjustments/shortage, paid-outs, assets, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory Tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Keep track of each of your fuel pumps and tanks,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'
- Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Gartner research suggests data center energy metrics still mystery to many businesses
- Sometimes I feel like I'm beating a dead horse with these blogs, especially when reporting the results of ongoing Green IT research. The latest disheartening report, for me at least, is the declaration by Gartner that along close to 70 percent of data center managers say that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"
- 6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-03
- Why you should be glad about Gmail failures
- A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Crutchfield Case Study: A Win-Win Situation
- Fast growth had pushed Crutchfield's data center to the maximum capacity of its cooling unit. The company wanted to reduce the number of physical machines to avoid buying a new air conditioner as well as streamline server management. By implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-VTM on DellTM...
- Case studies 2009-09-22
- Invent Upshot Standard 1.0.0.57 (Windows)
- Invent Upshot is a new, innovative, feature rich, low TCO and agent-less remote in-depth hardware and software inventory tool that can manage a single PC to several home and corporate networks hard wired or wireless. This software is not just another inventory solution. It is different from the competition: While...
- Software downloads 2009-09-20
- Palm: 823,000 smartphone units shipped; Outlook lumpy
- a loss of 161 milliondon't let the creative accounting fool you: the company just lost 161 million in one quarter (and that's the quarter they launched their jesus phone to great fanfare) and it has a market cap of 2 bn? wtf. how is that possible? shouldn't palm be a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
- Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Recon Suite 7.1 (Mac)
- In an increasingly compliance-driven world, immediate access to accurate information is critical to driving down costs and maintaining obligations. The Recon Suite provides a simple, low-cost way to inventory your network devices and computers, including Mac OS 9, iPhone, Mac OS X, and Windows machines. Every application, font, plug-in and...
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
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