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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Don't underestimate your DR network bandwidth needs
- Is your network ready for a disaster-related activity spike? Have you built a dedicated pipe to your failover systems, or is this just an unnecessary precaution? Share your thoughts about ensuring you have sufficient networking resources to accommodate your disaster plan, as described in the Oct. 19 edition of our...
- Tags: disaster recovery, it management, network, The Trivia Geek
- Discussion threads 2004-10-18
- 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
- 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
- Cable&Wireless Optimizes Capacity Planning and Lowers Overhead With Network Intelligence Solution
- In 2005, communications provider Energis was experiencing rapid growth, which required an expansion of its network infrastructure. When planning such expansion, it is critical that an organization carefully targets capacity growth to ensure it appropriately addresses current and developing shortfalls. Energis was using regional product sales forecasts to plan network...
- Tags: Expansion, Oracle Corp., Network, Network Intelligence, Cable&Wireless, Networking
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- How to Make Your Wireless LAN Work: Design for Context, Coverage & Capacity
- To create a wireless network that will meet your capacity and quality of service QoS expectations, you must consider the three "C's" of wireless network design: The Context of the wireless network location The wireless signal Coverage The network's required Capacity (based on the number...
- Tags: QoS, LAN, Network, WLAN, Wireless Network, Motorola Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Data Center Projects: Growth Model
- 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 equipment, so planning - or lack of planning - can have a large impact...
- Tags: Data Center, Network Room, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-30
- IBM System z9 and eServer zSeries With Capacity on Demand
- Get what you need - when you need it - and pay for only what you use. IBM capacity on demand is really that simple. In the highly unpredictable world of on demand business, you deserve no less. Choose Capacity Upgrade on Demand for a permanent increase of processing capacity,...
- Tags: IBM eServer, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-12-01
- TechNet Webcast: Introducing System Center Capacity Planner 2006 (Level 100)
- Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 uses state of the art modeling technology to bring unprecedented functionality and flexibility to the process of performance analysis and planning of distributed application deployments. The attendee of this webcast will learn how System Center Capacity Planner provides the guidance needed to plan an...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Modeling, Microsoft TechNet, Research & Development, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-07-01
- 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
- Performance Management and Capacity Planning for Microsoft SQL Server
- This paper describes the author’s experiences in performance management and capacity planning for systems based on Microsoft’s SQL Server database management product. The paper covers SQL Server database design, the resource consumption and performance data sources that are available, the way in which a monitoring regime was established, and the...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- TechNet Webcast: Systems Center Capacity Planner 2006 Overview (Level 200)
- The Microsoft System Center is a family of IT management solutions within the Windows Server system that helps to proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize the IT environment. This collection of powerful, integrated system management technologies exemplifies the Microsoft vision to help ease operations, reduce troubleshooting time, streamline information reporting,...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft System Center, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Webcasts 2007-03-20
- 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 Value Proposition for Capacity Planning
- This webcast shows several ways that capacity planning can benefit one's organization, and how TeamQuest Model is uniquely suited to assist with the capacity planning process.
- Tags: TeamQuest Corp., It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts
- 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
- Project MEGAGRID: Capacity Planning for Large Commodity Clusters
- In order to successfully plan and manage capacity and growth in an Enterprise Grid Computing environment, which provides high quality database service to applications and utilizes resources such as servers and disk optimally, a flexible and scalable server, storage and network infrastructure must be built. This white paper provides some...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Capacity, Storage, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2004-12-01
- SolutionBase: Planning a MOM deployment using System Center Capacity Planner 2006, part 2
- The System Center Capacity Planner can create a model that can be used to plan a Microsoft Operations Manager deployment. In this article, Brien Posey showing you how to use the Model Editor and the Hardware Editor to fine-tune models and how to run a deployment simulation using the model...
- Tags: Model
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