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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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The Rise of Primary Storage Optimization
| sponsored by Data Domain
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This expert Videocast defines the emerging category of Primary Optimized Storage (POS) and discusses how POS technology directly links back to hard dollar ROI for end users.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 26 Sep 2008
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Capacity Planning for your Data Center Construction Project
| sponsored by SearchDataCenter
VIDEOCAST:
What are the cost drivers in building a data center? How do the cost drivers affect capacity planning? What are the costs of shooting too low or too high on capacity or reliability?
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2008, 12:30 EDT (16:30 GMT)
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Deploying Energy Efficient Hardware in Your Data Center
| sponsored by SearchDataCenter
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Joe Clabby, from Clabby Analytics examines how much more you can afford to spend for energy efficiency based on local utility costs, data center tier level, remaining data center capacity and other important factors.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2008, 14:15 EDT (18:15 GMT)
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Strategies for Reducing Data Center Costs
| sponsored by SearchDataCenter
VIDEOCAST:
Kenneth will discuss the impact of IT reliability decisions on energy consumption to simplify your cost concerns and help you set achievable energy reduction goals
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2008, 11:30 EDT (15:30 GMT)
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Future-proofing Your Server and Systems Infrastructure
| sponsored by SearchDataCenter
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In this session, Joe Clabby provides best practices on reducing server costs by consolidating, virtualizing and provisioning your new data center.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2008, 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT)
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Expanding your Channel Business with Performance and Capacity Planning
| sponsored by Arrow ECS Midmarket Group
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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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Improving Capacity Planning with Power Management: A Q&A
| sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc.
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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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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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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Analysis tools and platform decisions
| sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
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Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Solutions to virtual infrastructure challenges
| sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
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In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Virtual infrastructure analysis
| sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
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In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources.
Posted: 21 May 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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It's Easier Being Green: The business Case for Green IT
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This video illustrates the case for transforming your data center with a green initiative. It has tangible examples and tactics that show how to realize cost savings, reduce strain on IT resources and retain better business continuity & availability.
Posted: 21 May 2008 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2008, 12:00 EDT (16:00 GMT)
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Podcast: Reducing Primary Storage Costs
| sponsored by Storwize
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In last few years there has been an abundance of information on secondary or capacity optimized storage. This webcast explores a paradigm shift in technology, primary storage optimization, and contrasts this with secondary storage optimization.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Premiered: 07 Mar 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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Reducing Primary Storage Costs
| sponsored by Storwize
WEBCAST:
In last few years there has been an abundance of information on secondary or capacity optimized storage. This webcast explores a paradigm shift in technology, primary storage optimization, and contrasts this with secondary storage optimization.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Part 2: Challenges to Data Center Storage and Networking
| sponsored by Dell, Inc.
VIDEOCAST:
Schulz discusses threats, challenges and new strategies effecting storage and networking performance and capacity.
Posted: 24 Jan 2008 | Premiered: 24 Jan 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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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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