Capacity Planning Reports

EZINE: With the number of virtual machines increasing in the data center, backing up servers today has become much more than just copying data files. Take a look at how virtualization technologies have changed traditional backup strategies and examine some of the approaches that protect against issues like accidental file loss and server crashes.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  View this whitepaper to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 Feb 2010

EZINE: Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do a lot of investigative work. Software management tools can help, but well developed business processes are also important. Learn some tips and tricks to make managing virtual environments a little bit easier.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource efficiency and simplify storage administration tasks such as problem diagnosis and change management.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: More than 1500 z/Journal readers and BMC Software customers worldwide recently shared their top priorities for IT in 2010. The survey results might surprise you. Get the full report.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript to learn the importance of effective virtual server management in your data center. Learn how virtualization health checks and consolidation planning can enable your organization to proactively predict when to improve capacity and resource utilization while minimizing contention.

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 | Published: 12 Jan 2010

EZINE: Microsoft made some big improvements in SharePoint 2010, but a few problems remain that still annoy SharePoint administrators. In this month's issue, find out what's good and what's not so good in the newest version of SharePoint. Also in this issue, get started on SharePoint capacity planning, and learn how to automate SharePoint governance.

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Premiered: Aug 28, 2009

VIDEO: This four-part webcast demonstrates the necessity for a proper storage management solution, such as Northern Storage Suite, in an organization's storage infrastructure. They'll review how NSS can reclaim wasted capacity, control user behavior, getting your end-users on-board with saving capacity and how to properly plan for future storage needs.

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 03 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn about tools being developed to balance workload and improve thermal management in the data center. Access now to discover predictive information - combined with server virtualization, a service-oriented architecture and digital power and operating system controls - can optimize operating efficiencies and reduce costs by 20-30%.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Emerson Network Power and its Liebert power and cooling technologies can help you protect your applications downtime despite power outages or security threats through this step-by-step guide.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

CASE STUDY: Learn how Emerson Network Power and its Liebert power and cooling technologies helped American Eagle Federal Credit Union achieve higher availability of data and IT services and improved energy efficiency.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

EZINE: In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 06 May 2009

EZINE: Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 06 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: First, target and source deduplication are defined and explained in this segment. Then, Curtis discusses the pros and cons of each, how each fits into different types of environments, and how each approach is typically being used today.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

EBOOK: Enterprise CIOs are adopting green IT and other new technologies to improve data center efficiencies. In this ebook learn more about how IT organizations are using green IT, virtualization, storage capacity planning and even cloud computing to realize energy savings and lower hardware and power costs in the data center.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

EZINE: Cloud computing has loads of potential for data centers -- the ability to pool resources, charge customers based on actual usage and tap into extra external capacity when needed.

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 | Published: 14 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design.

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Looking for a new disk-based backup solution? Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn some key criteria to consider when evaluating disk-based data protection vendors and how one company matches up against these criteria.

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides a single toolkit that helps in accelerating complex technology projects and simplifying daily operations.

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Published: 07 Oct 2008