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ALSO CALLED: Capacity Management, Server Capacity Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning, 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 handle an increasing number of requests as the number of users or interactions increase. The aim  … 
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Ensuring a Healthy Virtual Infrastructure
sponsored by Novell Inc.
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast 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: 01 Dec 2009 | Premieres: 01 Dec 2009


Webcast: Business-Driven Virtualization: Optimizing Insight and Efficiency in the Dynamic Datacenter
sponsored by Hyper9, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast, discover how to achieve greater virtualization maturity, from clearer visibility to higher service levels in your VMware environment. Learn how to identify where your company fits in the virtualization maturity model and find virtualization tools that enable optimal IT performance.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009


The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center
sponsored by Akorri
WEBCAST: This webcast 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: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009


PODCAST: Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure
sponsored by Forsythe
PODCAST: In this podcast, 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: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009


Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure
sponsored by Forsythe
WEBCAST: In this webcast, 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: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009


Green Storage Webcast
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: We know that the energy use in data centers is high today and this rate is rapidly growing, projected to double every 5 year. To help you react to this rapid growth, we offer an informative webcast that will detail. IBM solutions and services can stem this information explosion.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2009


PlateSpin Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell Inc.
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: 28 Aug 2009


Reclaim Wasted Capacity
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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


How To Optimize Resource Utilization and Increase VM Densities on Your Existing Hardware
sponsored by VKernel
WEBCAST: View this VKernel webcast to learn how to best optimize resource utilization in your current ESX environment. During this 30 minute presentation, we'll discuss how capacity planning is different in an ESX environment, resource alignment, and many other aspects of capacity planning within your current environment.
Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 09 Jul 2009


Rich Media On Steroids: Pumping up network capacity 1000x
sponsored by Blue Coat
WEBCAST: Check out this webcast, which explains the uses of video in today's enterprise, discusses video delivery acceleration, reviews actual case studies, and offers resources for more information.
Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 09 Jul 2009


Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management tools
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PODCAST: In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 16 Jun 2009


MV Capacity Trending Advisor
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 24 Apr 2009

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CAPACITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): …  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 what the future needs will be. Analytical modeling tools can help the planner get answers to "What if" scenarios so that a range of possibilities can be explored. The capacity planner is especially … 
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