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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Introducing Capacity Management Essentials - Simplified Capacity Analysis and Planning for Enterprise Data Centers
- Capacity Management Essentials combines agentless data collection and built-in intelligence with a scalable architecture to provide a powerful, yet easy to use, capacity management solution that provides a complete view of how datacenter resources are being used. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the capabilities of Capacity Management...
- Webcasts 2008-02-19
- Economic Challenge and Capacity Management: Increasing Value and ROI From Capacity Management - A Maturity Model
- During times of economic stress, pressures on IT can become seemingly insurmountable. Requirements to "Ensure business services" and "Optimize availability" - challenging enough when budgets were more open, become extremely challenging. Spending freezes or significant reductions in capital infrastructure are common. However, just because the hardware or software acquisition budgets...
- White papers 2009-01-29
- 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...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
- Capacity Management definitions can be found in many places on the Internet, including many IT Infrastructure Library ITIL sites. The definitions can be both wordy and confusing. The author will leave it to those sources for the definitive explanation. For a brief, high level definition, Capacity Management is a set...
- White papers 2009-09-24
- Empowering IT to Optimize Storage Capacity Management
- All enterprises, large and small, are dealing with storage capacity management issues and solving them one way or another. To cope with increased demand for storage, cost reduction mandates, and declining budgets, IT managers are thoroughly evaluating all of their enterprises' storage costs - from initial equipment acquisition and resource...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Bringing ITIL to Life: Automating IT Capacity Management
- The ever growing complexity and increasing size of current IT infrastructures are the top challenges for today's IT Capacity Managers. Facing hundreds of servers supporting vital business functions makes Capacity Management automation a must. This paper details how to overcome the challenges of modern large scale environments by implementing an...
- White papers 2006-10-17
- Predictable Capacity Management in a Virtualized Environment
- Virtualization introduces a new capacity management paradigm. Anytime there are shared, dynamic resources, one have to plan, coordinate and reserve capacity in advance to avoid contentions, inefficiencies or shortfalls. The attendees of this webcast will how capacity management is fundamentally different in virtualized environments.
- Webcasts 2009-10-08
- 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...
- White papers
- Six Sensible Steps Towards Implementing ITIL Capacity Management
- ITIL describes Capacity Management as one of ten ITSM processes. This paper discusses the core approach in regular use for some years by many sites in the implementation and enhancement of Capacity Management. Six Sigma is a well established approach to optimizing industrial and business processes. In industry, it typically...
- White papers 2006-10-17
- Guerrilla Capacity Management
- This webcast explains the views of traditional capacity planning as an 800-pound gorilla pun intended that needs to go on a diet before it eats the schedules alive. The Guerrilla concept revolves around a real oxymoron: tactical planning or planning-on-demand. The guerrilla-style hit-and-run approach ensures that planning is done when...
- Webcasts
- North American Financial Services Company Achieves Rapid Business Growth Through Server Virtualization Using BMC Capacity Management
- A large North American financial services company has achieved years of double-digit sales and revenue growth. To sustain its commitment to customer service while keeping IT costs in check, the organization deployed the BMC Capacity Management solution (including BMC Performance Assurance and Solution Labs Inc. Performance Surveyor) to monitor the...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Technical Track: Dramatically Simplified Capacity Management
- How to simplify capacity management in a virtualized environment? The attendee of this webcast will learn about new capabilities that enable IT to align virtual infrastructure capacity with business demands in a more timely and cost-effective manner.
- Webcasts 2009-10-15
- Introducing a Capacity Management Maturity Model
- The recent adoption of virtualization technologies lowers the amount of hardware required and reduces power consumption to some extent. But it also raises management complexity since there is no longer a permanent and exclusive relationship between physical resources and the software that runs on it. If one then chooses to...
- White papers 2010-01-19
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