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- 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
- BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Mainframes: Capacity Management and the CDB
- A successful capacity management strategy puts the resources in place to deliver just-in-time support of business requirements. Integral to that strategy is the development of a capacity plan that is based on the data from a Capacity Management Database CDB. According to the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, the CDB is...
- White papers 2006-08-01
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- Plan for effective capacity and availability management in new systems
- Tim Landgrave explains that putting a new system into place requires an examination of capacity and availability issues. Analysis of these factors clarifies the system's business value and ensures that it will meet users' needs and IT support expectations.Plugging in a new system requires more than just money and making...
- Technical articles 2002-10-10
- Disk management strategies for Windows NT Server
- There are several different disk management strategies from which you can choose. Troy Thompson discusses the advantages and disadvantages of some of these strategies and makes recommendations for certain situations.In this Daily Drill Down, I’ll discuss disk management strategies for the Windows NT Server. There are several different strategies from...
- Technical articles 2000-05-08
- How to create a technology replacement strategy
- Developing a technology replacement strategy is an essential part of managing the IT budget. Evaluating operating costs versus acquisition costs can lead to a standardized replacement strategy. When you are considering the cost of your organization's technology, you must consider its life cycle and make allowances not...
- Technical articles 2005-06-20
- Cisco - Capacity and Performance Management: Best Practices White Paper
- This paper examines the general capacity and performance issues, including the risks and potential capacity issues within networks. The paper also looks at the capacity and performance management best practices, including what-if analyses, base lining, trending, exception management, and QoS management. How to develop a capacity planning strategy, including common...
- White papers 2003-03-12
- Avoid the cost of IT management promotion failures
- It's common practice to promote top technical performers into management positions, but sometimes it can backfire. Before you promote your star IT pro to a management position, make sure he or she is ready, willing, and able to do the job well.By Joe SantanaEvery year in thousands of companies, well-meaning...
- Technical articles 2002-10-15
- Solid management skills are crucial to attaining a leadership role
- While one noted author says there's a clear difference between leadership and management, there's also a connection between the two in terms of career success. As columnist Bob Weinstein explains, to be a good leader, you have to be a crackerjack manager.Michael Useem believes there’s a clear difference between leadership...
- Technical articles 2002-09-04
- Simple stats and graphs can help sell senior management on more servers
- Convincing senior management to buy more application and Web servers in tight economic times can be a challenge. Instead of bombarding them with complex statistical analyses, some simple graphs may help you make the point more effectively.If load-testing results and capacity planning suggest that you need to increase the number...
- Technical articles 2002-03-11
- Performance Management - Making It Work
- Effective Performance Management PM integrates multiple methodologies such as balanced scorecards, strategy maps, budgets, activity based management ABM, forecasts, and resource capacity planning. Are these fashionable fads or relevant solutions? Performance management has been hailed as the new salvation for aligning your resources and turning an organization's strategy into individual...
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- Backup strategy
- Backup strategyWhat is your organization's backup strategy?One small step...We use dlt tapes on a bi-weekly basis.Everyday at lunch we do a differential and every night we do a full backup.This way we have a 2 week window to fall back on. This is not only in order to save...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-01
- Developing a data communications strategy
- Any data communications proposal can look good on paper until you dissect it by evaluating its reliability, expandability, and complexity. Whether your organization has two sites or two hundred sites, figuring out how to manage the data communications between those sites can be a real challenge. With...
- Technical articles 2005-08-29
- Getting to know the IDE RAID controller
- If data warehousing is part of your department?s duties, you?ll be glad to know that RAID can now be used with the less expensive IDE drives. Troy Thompson outlines how to use the SuperTrak100 IDE RAID controller card.If you need to warehouse large amounts of data but have found the...
- Technical articles 2001-06-21
- Preparing for the 70-067, Windows NT Server 4.0 exam
- Troy Thompson offers a snapshot of the topics included on the exam and explains why you'll have to understand the topics presented to pass the test.In this article, we'll focus on Microsoft's 70-067 exam, which covers Windows NT Server 4.0. We'll provide a snapshot of the topics included on the...
- Technical articles 1999-03-01
- Stop Buying Storage - Part 2: Maximize Storage Assets With Thin Provisioning, Tiered Storage, and Cluster File Systems
- Thin Provisioning represents an opportunity to immediately optimize the storage systems and make more capacity available to the applications. Although thin provisioning is a storage array feature, servers need to be 'Thin aware'. In order to migrate from "Thick" to "Thin," one need tools that makes the transition seamlessly and...
- Webcasts 2009-04-16
- What UPS is good enough for my server?
- hi guys,i have a dell power edge server...running sbs2003 its pretty standardhas raid hard drives etcwill this ups be adequate?im scared to buy stuff that wont hack ithere is what i found for 150 euroCapacity: 2000 VA / 1200 WOperating Voltage Range: 166 - 280VACOutput: Voltage 230VACVoltage Regulation Battery Mode...
- Q&A 2009-06-15
- ITIL? v2-to-v3 Foundation Certification Bridge
- View Available Dates and Locations Discover and examine the key differences and benefits of the changes in ITIL v3 in this one-day course. Focusing on the new service lifecycle approach to implementing new and changed services, you'll address key new concepts, functions, processes, and changes to...
- Training 2008-01-01
- ITIL® v2-to-v3 Foundation Bridge Exam Prep Boot Camp
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends March 31, 2009.View Available Dates and Locations Discover and examine the key differences and benefits of the changes in ITIL v3 in this one-day course. Focusing on the new service lifecycle...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Preparing for the audit boogeyman.
- The hooded figure approached the door ever so slowly, as if he wanted each step to cause insufferable pain. As he reached his bony hand to ring the bell for admittance into the sanctum, his scythe reflected the intermittent lighting emanating from a defective overhead bulb. Somewhere in the distance,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Performance Management 2.0: Broader or Better? (Part 1 of 2)
- Performance Management 2.0 is being referenced by some IT research firms as an advance over Performance Management 1.0. Does PM 2.0 simply mean it is broader and more inclusive than the PM 1.0 traditional view of being simply a CFO-driven initiative of financial reporting, budgeting and dashboard dials? Or is...
- Webcasts 2008-01-30
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