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May 25, 2013

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Capacity on Demand
ALSO CALLED: COD, Capacity-on-Demand, On/Off Capacity on Demand DEFINITION: Capacity on demand (COD) is a purchasing option that allows companies to receive equipment with more computer processing, storage, or other capacity than the company needs at the time of purchase, and have that extra capacity remain unused and unpaid for until the company actually requires it. Vendors are promoting capacity on demand as a cost-effective and time-saving alternative to more traditional … Definition continues below.
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Does your NAS perform for physical and virtual setups? sponsored by Red Hat PODCAST: In this 2013 podcast, Sid Wilroy, solution architect for Red Hat, will go over how Red Hat Storage fits in an enterprise at the petabyte scale - for a fraction of the typical storage cost. Posted: 29 Jan 2013 \| Premiered: Jan 17, 2013 TOPICS: Capacity on Demand \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Open Source Software \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure

Red Hat Storage Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions sponsored by Red Hat WEBCAST: In this webcast, Sid Wilroy, solution architect for Red Hat, will go over how Red Hat Storage fits in an enterprise at the petabyte scale - for a fraction of the typical storage cost. Posted: 29 Jan 2013 \| Premiered: Jan 17, 2013 TOPICS: Capacity on Demand \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Open Source Software \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure

The Benefits Of Virtualizing Citrix XenApp with Citrix XenServer sponsored by Citrix PODCAST: Virtualization is now generally recognized as one of the key enablers of these objectives. As organizations explore virtualization solutions, the challenge is to select the right strategic vendor with the best solution set for their business. Posted: 20 Aug 2008 \| Premiered: Aug 20, 2008 TOPICS: Application Service Providers \| Capacity on Demand \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Customer Satisfaction \| Desktop Management \| IT Asset Management \| Security \| Server Virtualization \| Strategic Planning

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CAPACITY ON DEMAND DEFINITION (continued): … methods of upgrading. With COD, a vendor might provide a company with a fully-configured 24-processor computer server but only charge the company for the number of processors they actually use. The vendor provides the additional capacity hoping that when the company expands and needs more capacity, they will not look around elsewhere but will simply take advantage of the extra capacity the vendor had already provided. In this scenario, the company would contact the vendor to have the extra processors activated, and the vendor would bill them accordingly. Critics of COD compare the service with …
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