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- 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...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Performance, CMDB, Mainframe, Capacity Management Strategy, ITIL, It Management, Process Improvement, It Services, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-08-01
- 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
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- 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...
- Tags: Performance, Capacity, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2003-03-12
- 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 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
- 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...
- Tags: Strategy, Performance, Effective Performance Management, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Minimize IT Risk With a Business Focused Capacity Plan
- For many years Capacity Planning has been looked upon as a mainstream technical discipline. Whilst planning the future capacity of these entities is an absolute necessity for the infrastructure growth of an IT organization, many times there is too little emphasis on how the capacity plan connects to corporate and...
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- ANALYST WEBINAR: Automatically Match IT Capacity to Business Requirements
- Business needs change quickly. IT must be ready to manage the impact of these changes and effectively provision resources. Without the ability to predict needs, you risk underutilization or even worse, capacity shortages. This webcast explains how capacity management and provisioning provides a direct path to Business Service Management by...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Webinar, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts
- 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
- Webcasts
- Best Practices: Do You Have a Data Management Strategy?
- The attendee of this webcast will understand the business value of a data management strategy and learn the basic components of a good data management strategy. The presenter of this webcast will explain the role of data quality and data integration technology and processes within any data management initiative.
- Tags: Best Practice, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Capacity Management Assessment and Planning
- This service provides a detailed level analysis and profile of Capacity Management processes and techniques, based on business unit drivers, that employ several usage profiles to link business plans and workload forecasts directly to estimates of resource and service level objectives. Once developed, these techniques and profiles provide a basis...
- Tags: Technique, Service Level Management, Productivity, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers
- Capacity Management and Provisioning Route to Value: A Path to Effective Business Service Management
- This paper explores the need for a capacity management and provisioning solution, as well as the criteria needed for that solution to operate effectively while contributing to an organization's ability to achieve Business Service Management BSM. BMC Software's Capacity Management and Provisioning Route to Value provides a solution that meets...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Business Service Management, Provisioning, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-06-10
- 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
- Going Beyond ITIL: IT Capacity Management With SAS - Exploiting SAS Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Capabilities to Effectively Align IT Capacity to Business Demand Using a Best-Practice and ITIL-Compliant IT Capacity Management Methodology
- Data centers represent a large pool of capital investments, yet the utilization of these capital resources is generally low compared to that expected for other business investments. Whether it is because of seasonal peaks or other reasons, these systems are far from 100 percent utilized on average. In order to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Information Technology, SAS Institute, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Pricing, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2006-10-01
- TCP Probe: A TCP With Built-In Path Capacity Estimation
- Knowing the capacity of an Internet path is important for efficient network utilization, pricing, and management. Using the capacity information, one can provide better TCP congestion control, multimedia streaming, P2P peer selection, and overlay structuring. Capacity estimation has been extensively studied. Though current approaches have been able to provide fast...
- Tags: TCP, Capacity Estimation, TCP Probe Extension, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2005-03-03
- Setting Up a Sub-Capacity SAS License
- On newer mainframe systems, customers can subdivide the CPU capacity that they want to allow for SAS software by using Logical PARtitions LPAR. To accommodate this model, SAS Institute offers sub-capacity pricing for qualified customers who are upgrading their SAS software or are adding SAS workload to a large IBM...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Sub-capacity Pricing
- White papers 2007-01-03
- 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...
- Tags: Performance, Performance Management 2.0, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-01-30
- Multiuser Limited Feedback for Wireless Multi-Antenna Communication
- For a wireless multi-antenna network with a large number of users, the sum capacity scales at most linearly with the number of antennas and double logarithmically the number of users. Achieving this optimal capacity scaling potentially requires feedback of Channel State Information CSI from all users, leading to overflow of...
- Tags: Feedback, University Of Texas, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-04-20
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