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Capacity Planning
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ALSO CALLED: Capacity Management, Server Capacity Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning, and IT Capacity Planning
DEFINITION: In information technology, capacity planning is the science and art of estimating the space, computer hardware, software and connection infrastructure resources that will be needed over some future period of time. A typical capacity concern of many enterprises is whether resources will be in place to
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Strategic Insight for Your SAP Deployment: The Top 3 Techniques for Capacity and Performance Management
| sponsored by HyPerformix
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: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 16 Jul 2008
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Expanding your Channel Business with Performance and Capacity Planning
| sponsored by Arrow ECS Midmarket Group
VIDEOCAST:
This expert Videocast from SearchStorageChannel.com features Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 15 Jul 2008
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How Server Virtualization Helped Sleek Networks Improve Performance and Boost Capacity
| sponsored by Citrix
CASE STUDY:
Thanks to Citrix's XenServer, Sleek Networks uses fewer physical servers, requiring less power and cooling, yet achieving higher performances. Server virtualization with XenServer reduces a datacenter's environmental impact by using fewer resources.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Tips to Improve Capacity Planning through Power Management
| sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc.
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: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
| sponsored by NetApp
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: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Tips to Improve Capacity Planning Through Power Management Webcast
| sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc.
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In this webcast, analyst Joe Clabby will describe the common data center capacity planning problems IT organizations encounter. New developments in data center power management are covered in this webcast.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Improving Capacity Planning with Power Management: A Q&A
| sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc.
PODCAST:
In this audiocast, we interview analyst Joe Clabby about capacity planning challenges and improving capacity planning through better power management.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2008
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Storage Capacity Planning eGuide: Artfully Managing Affordability, Client Capacity Demands and Growth Control
| sponsored by Arrow ECS Midmarket Group
EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE:
Managing storage capacity is a major problem for many organizations these days. Read this eGuide for a number of expert articles and tips that focus on how channel professionals can help their clients effectively address their storage capacity problems.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 27 Jun 2008
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Value-Added Services: Pushing Beyond the Box
| sponsored by Kaseya
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Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, discusses Storage Services and Managed Services and how both can contribute to the bottom line for channel companies.
Posted: 23 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Data Center: Total Cost of Ownership
| sponsored by Liquid Computing
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Would you like up to a 60% reduction on total cost of ownership in your data center and would you like to reduce your data center annual operating expenses by up to 90%?
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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CAPACITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued):
handle an increasing number of requests as the number of users or interactions increase. The aim of the capacity planner is to plan so well that new capacity is added just in time to meet the anticipated need but not so early that resources go unused for a long period. The successful capacity planner is one that makes the trade-offs between the present and the future that overall prove to be the most cost-efficient. The capacity planner, using business plans and forecasts, tries to imagine
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