WHITE PAPER - This white paper offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures. It also offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments.
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Capacity Planning | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Operating Systems | Security | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses best practices for Optimizing Performance and Availability in Virtual Infrastructures. It also gives an overview of all the infrastructure components that comprise an effective, high-quality virtualized IT service.
Posted: August 15, 2008 | Published: August 15, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Capacity Planning | Databases | Infrastructure Management | NAS | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Download chapter two, "Optimizing your SQL Server Infrastructure: Good Ideas, Bad Ideas," to learn why this happens from a technical viewpoint and explore some of the ways ...
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Infrastructure Management | Load Balancing | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises deploy more virtualization solutions that are scattered across the enterprise, managing the technologies is challenging for IT staffs. This paper will outline the unified management of virtualized systems using one management tool.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Capacity on Demand | Capacity Planning | Data Integration | Network Infrastructure | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Monitoring servers and proactively managing capacity helps companies maintain service level agreements, meet contractual obligations, improve customer and partner satisfaction, and move forward into new markets.
Posted: July 28, 2008 | Published: July 28, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Business Intelligence | Capacity Planning | IT Service Management | IT Systems | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - The emerging best practice of predictive analysis provides accurate predictions of performance and capacity, hands-on real observed results, that allow you to make informed business decisions about IT investments.
Posted: July 16, 2008 | Published: July 16, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Performance Testing | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, analyst Joe Clabby will describe what capacity planning is all about, data center capacity problems that IT managers are facing today, how these problems are being addressed.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | ITIL | Power Supplies | Scalability Testing | Systems Maintenance

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
Posted: July 8, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Fibre Channel | Networking | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - IndependentAssessment offers independent analysis of technology products by Alan Radding, a widely published IT analyst, and writer. In this report the HP Storage Suite is shown to enable firms to monitor, plan, analyze and report on storage usage.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - IDC believes that a true datacenter transformation is taking place and that IT organizations will continue to consolidate the number of sites and number of supported systems and will increasingly place greater emphasis on energy efficiency. This will c...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Customer Satisfaction | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Financial Services Industry | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This ESG Lab Validation analysis is focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the improved performance of the XP24000.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Virtualization | Testing | VMware

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Project Management | Project Portfolio Management | ROI

WHITE PAPER - There has been much discussion about the valuable benefits of CoS; however, there are also common myths, which unless challenged, can impact the success of CoS implementation, this paper exposes the common misconceptions of what CoS can...
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Capacity Planning | Network Capacity | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Traffic Analysis | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper shows how applying the principles of energy efficiency to your company's computers and servers can improve your productivity and decrease your carbon emissions in very specific ways.
Posted: May 29, 2008 | Published: May 28, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Capacity Planning | Cooling Systems | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Micro Processor | Multi-core Processors | Server Virtualization | Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Capacity optimization is a practical way to address data growth, thus reducing your storage costs. Explore this presentation download for an outline on the importance of capacity optimization and how it works to simplify management, lower cost...
Posted: March 21, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Compression | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management Software