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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...
- Tags: Data Center, Workload, Capacity Management, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- 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...
- Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Capacity Management, CDB, Capacity Management Strategy, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, It Management, Quality, Business Operations, It service Management
- 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...
- Tags: Database, CMDB, Capacity Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- 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...
- Tags: Capacity Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- 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...
- Tags: Performance, TeamQuest Corp., Capacity Management, Performance Management, It Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management
- 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...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, Capacity Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), ITIL, Storage, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, It Services, Hardware, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-08-01
- ITIL Basics - Capacity Management
- Capacity Management is the discipline that ensures IT infrastructure is provided at the right time in the right volume at the right price, and ensuring that IT is used in the most efficient manner. This involves input from many areas of the business to identify what services are (or will...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Information Technology, Nextslm.org, Capacity Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management
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Additional Resources
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac
- I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game
- Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...
- Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...
- Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Cisco acquires Pure Networks, home networking software
- Cisco Systems has cable set-top boxes and your home along with the routers. Now it wants the software that puts your entire home network together. Cisco, which is determined to be a big consumer player as well as an enterprise behemoth, on Wednesday that it will buy...
- Tags: Software, Pure Networks, Cisco Systems Inc., Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers. The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kace, Survey, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Vantage Giga (zip)
- Suites large to enterprise organizations. Vantage Giga is a monitoring and reporting software that provides interactive reporting interfaces into key functions of Internet and network usage within organizations. Vantage can import and translate different types of log files, providing powerful, yet easy to use, drilldown analysis capabilities with a comprehensive...
- Tags: Analysis, Organization, WebSpy, Vantage Giga, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Express Inventory (exe)
- Express Inventory is professional stock management software for Windows that allows you to manage inventory in one or several locations. When installed with Express Invoice you can create purchase orders to be sent directly to a vendor. This free Inventory management software allows you to manage stock levels thought categories,...
- Tags: Stock, Inventory, NCH Software, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
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