Capacity Planning

e-guide discusses the necessity of implementing effective capacity planning for your cloud environment. Discover tips that can help you master this task so you can ensure sustainable success.

Capacity planning is essential for any cloud environment to operate successfully now and in the future. While this type of planning can be more challenging than planning for a traditional data centre, with the right tactics you can simplify the process. Read this expert e-guide to explore tips that can help...

can increase business agility by implementing effective capacity planning and VM management. Plus, access an exclusive FAQ that clarifies how and why you should leverage virtualization storage consolidation and shared storage to reduce costs while supporting advanced virtualization features.

In this expert e-guide, learn how you can increase business agility by implementing effective capacity planning and VM management. Plus, access an exclusive FAQ that clarifies how and why you...

Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.

Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT...

exploding like nothing we've ever seen. Naturally, that means capacity planning is becoming more important than ever before. Check out this E-Guide by storage expert Jon Toigo to get all the information you'll need to keep your storage infrastructure running smoothly.

As you surely know, data growth is exploding like nothing we’ve ever seen. Naturally, that means capacity planning is becoming more important than ever before, not to mention managing and protection all that data.

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management in relation to corporate projects? Learn how capacity planning provides the foresight necessary to complete projects on time and boost customer satisfaction.

Different managers have different philosophies for project planning and scheduling, especially when it comes to meeting deadlines. But what if there was a way to improve risk management in relation to corporate projects?

Inside this white paper, learn how capacity planning provides the foresight necessary to complete...

organizations are using green IT, virtualization, storage capacity planning and even cloud computing to realize energy savings and lower hardware and power costs in the data center.

Enterprise-sized companies have taken the lead in making sure their IT operations are as "green" as possible. But how does the green data center of the future complete this picture? What strategies are in play to move the data center beyond green? Experts say the power demands of future data centers aren't likely to...

infrastructure. They'll review how NSS can reclaim wasted capacity, control user behavior, getting your end-users on-board with saving capacity and how to properly plan for future storage needs. This four-part webcast demonstrates the necessity for a proper storage management solution, such as Northern Storage Suite, in an organization's storage infrastructure. They'll review how NSS can reclaim wasted capacity, control user behavior, getting your end-users on-board with saving...

This paper provides six tools to help increase the value of a PPM solution which include: workflow scheduling, tracking, process improvement analysis, demand management and business intelligence. Every organization, regardless of size, is going to compete with greater probability of success if they choose the right initiatives and do them more efficiently. This document provides resources and ideas for companies who know they need tools to help them organize their...

levels, allowing the IT team to move away from volumetric capacity planning and turn to scenario modeling and "whatif" planning. BalancePoint is helping CareGroup manage application service levels, allowing the IT team to move away from volumetric capacity planning and turn to scenario modeling and "whatif" planning. As a result, CareGroup can avoid over-provisioning, and more intelligently share resources and control services...

a virtual desktop deployment? Discover how you can leverage capacity planning to balance performance and the high cost of storage and bandwidth in this expert e-guide. Plus, explore the pros and cons of storage virtualization and evaluate which storage strategies work best for your organization.

How much storage do you need to support a virtual desktop deployment? Discover how you can leverage capacity planning to balance performance and the high cost of storage and bandwidth in this expert e...

tasks such as problem diagnosis, change management, and capacity planning.

sources and all phases of the project lifecycle. Capacity management must consider all of these. Demand Management (DM) is a component of a full-featured Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice. Demand comes from many sources and all phases of the project lifecycle. Capacity management must consider all of these.

With PPM, you extend the management of projects to the full lifecycle, spanning from idea to realization of benefits. This is accomplished by bringing...

do you go from testing to the next level? You must spend time planning virtualization design to ensure a successful production rollout. Gain insight into planning recommendations to help you move from your test environment to production.

Discover best practices to include the following in your virtualization design:

• Capacity
• Servers
• Storage
• Migration
• Operationalization

knowledgeable decisions about costs, storage, capacity planning and system performance. Moreover, it empowers you to better control and understand your mainframe systems and supporting technologies, which translates to improved IT costing, system utilization and performance and planning...

troubleshoot problems, detect anomalies, and conduct capacity planning exercises. In addition to auditing trading partner exchanges and sending alerts that trigger process adjustments, these BI solutions can alert individuals to changes and exceptions that may require action, as well as provide aggregated insight for strategic planning. Integration platforms with embedded BI tools are ideal for presenting and analyzing real-time transaction information. This white paper will...

they consume. With this information, you can improve capacity planning and forecasting, create effective file management policies, uncover optimization opportunities, and analyze the potential cost savings associated with storage tiering, based on your actual data.

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troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and perform capacity planning and trend analysis.

To help address these challenges within VMware virtual environments, Dell/EMC NS unified storage offers tight integration with VMware vCenter™ software with key features - including the EMC™ Unified Plug-in for VMware; EMC Unisphere™ storage management software; optimization capabilities such as EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), FAST cache, and data deduplication and compression; and data...

policy management, reporting, security, auditing and capacity planning, all ideally through a single management interface across the whole organization...

problem isolation, performance optimization, capacity planning and workload and impact analysis can increase your ability to meet service-level agreements. How you can increase data quality and enterprise consistency via data models that comply with enterprise architecture and corporate standards. A set of powerful tools and techniques that will help you facilitate data management for maximum ROI on your valuable data, data center assets and IT resources. 

According to a recent study, the use of colocation and services is increasing dramatically, yet there are many differences between colocation providers which IT pros should be aware of. Access this resource to discover 7 things you should look for when selecting a colocation provider

According to a recent study, the use of colocation and services is increasing dramatically. Colocation is becoming the solution of choice for organizations seeking an efficient, secure and cost...

automation, self-service portal, monitoring and capacity planning. It also discusses examples of, and the value propositions for, certain data centers that have been built in this manner to date.

Cloud computing is an emerging computing model by which users can gain access to their applications from anywhere, through any connected device. A user-centric interface makes the cloud infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively...

I/O in an architecture that can scale in both bandwidth and capacity.

This short white paper discusses the challenges of one of the first commercial industries to use high performance computing and the deployment of an affordable, reliable, and scalable storage platform to optimize performance and eliminate inefficiency.

models. Learn more about effectively managing and planning capacity for improvements in business services.

new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.

Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of...

Read this Presentation Transcript to learn how to build a dynamic IT infrastructure and pro-actively manage your data center.

Today's economy presents a significant amount of data center challenges that may prohibit a company's ability to perform well. While information is growing at a fast pace, budgets, staff and other IT resources are shrinking. Furthermore, an increase in the number of facility issues has made it difficult for IT to deliver on the promise of continuous...