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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
- Manage capacity and availability
- If a new system is going to deliver its promised value, stability isn't enough. Availability and capacity planning are critical--or your ROI could be DOA. Plugging in a new system requires more than just money and making sure all the interrelated parts play well together. Two...
- News items 2002-10-21
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- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
- And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Gas Station Software 11.1 (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 2009-11-10
- AVCWare iPod to iPod/PC/iTunes Transfer 2.1.38.1016 (Windows)
- AVCWare iPod to iPod/Computer/iTunes Transfer not only can transfer your iPod/iPhone music/video/playlist/photos back to PC, but also support iPod to iTunes transfer. If you own more than one iPods, it can simultaneously manage all the iPods in the same interface, you may transfer files among these iPods by drag-and-drop. All...
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- 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
- Thunder Address 2.1 (Windows)
- Thunder Address is the world's most comprehensive contact management software application. Supporting multiple import and export formats, it provides a seamless avenue for gathering and sharing contact information. It also provides the means to batch print envelopes and labels quickly and easily. Coupled with the ability to create multiple address...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- 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
- BatteryPlus - BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager 1.2 (Mobile)
- BatteryPlus - BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager * What is BatteryPlus (BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager) ? BatteryPlus is a powerful battery boosting tool and power management application specially designed for BlackBerry. BatteryPlus automatically detects the type of your device (it differentiates between BlackBerry Storm, Tour, Bold and Curve series)...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- A Case for Enterprise-Wide Solutions for AML and Anti-Fraud
- Navigating the ever-changing/dynamic financial services industry successfully for most institutions translates into growing revenue while simultaneously controlling costs. From revisiting business models to evaluating how best they can improve analytics and risk management strategies, banks today are metamorphosing into institutions encompassing a variety of businesses such as insurance, securities, investment...
- White papers 2009-10-22
- 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
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