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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 … Definition continues below.
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Presentation Transcript: The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center sponsored by Akorri 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: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Storage Capacity \| Systems Management

The Raw Truth about Storage Capacity sponsored by Xiotech Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper examines several factors that limit the capacity of your data storage system and how they contribute to the true cost of storage. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| RAID \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Resource Management \| VMware

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 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| Mobile Workers \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| VMware

Seeding the Clouds: Key Infrastructure Elements of Cloud Computing sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes a high-level cloud computing infrastructure services framework and the underlying technology enablers, such as virtualization, automation, self-service portal, monitoring and capacity planning. It also discusses examples of, and the value propositions for, certain data centers that have been built in this manner to date. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Service Management \| Server Virtualization

Documenting VMware Infrastructure is 98 Percent Faster at LifeChurch.tv sponsored by Veeam Software CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how LifeChurch.tv implemented the Veeam Management suite Plus to manage their virtual infrastructure to decrease file-level recovery time from hours to seconds, reduce time to document infrastructure by 98 percent, and improve file copy speed six times faster than other products. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Published: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Capacity Planning \| Reporting Software \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Management \| Systems Management Software \| VMware ESX

IT Survey Results: Top Priorities Through 2010 sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Published: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Change Management \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Server Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Systems Management \| VMware

PODCAST: Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe Technology Solution 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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| IT Infrastructure

Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe Technology Solution 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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| IT Infrastructure

Mobility Management the ITIL and ITSM Way: An Enterprise BlackBerry, iPhone (and Beyond) Imperative sponsored by BoxTone WHITE PAPER: In this Handbook, you'll learn how Mobile User Management has emerged as the most effective application of ITSM leveraging ITIL to support mobile user connectivity and mobile application access. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Configuration Management \| Help Desk Management \| High Availability \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Service Management \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Service Level Management \| User Needs Assessments

Business Case for IBM Virtualization Solutions: Bottom Line Impact for Enterprise Infrastructures sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures. Posted: 02 Oct 2009 \| Published: 02 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Infrastructure Management \| Infrastructure Services \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| User Experience

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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Green Storage \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Breaking the Scalability Barrier with Infinite Cache sponsored by EnterpriseDB Corporation WHITE PAPER: Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Cache \| Cache Server Hardware \| Caching \| Capacity Planning \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| Memory \| Memory Management \| Server Management

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere™ 4 sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment. Posted: 21 Sep 2009 \| Published: 21 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| Email Management \| Email Server Software \| Microsoft Exchange \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Virtual Machine \| VM \| VMware

Build for Today. Expand on Demand: Modularity in the Data Center Power Infrastructure sponsored by Eaton Corporation WHITE PAPER: Building the data center to meet the needs of an uncertain future is an expensive and needless exercise in over-engineering. New designs need to be modular, with built-in expansion capabilities. This paper looks at the concepts and benefits of modularity in all the necessary elements of the power system. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Batteries \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Network Design \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| UPS

The High Performance DBA: Optimizing Databases for High Performance sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Database Administration \| Database Architectures \| Database Performance Management Software \| DB2 \| High Availability \| SQL \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Workload Automation

Taking Control: Consolidation Can Help You Take Control of the Server Room sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: Server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak at many organizations. Consolidation can help ease management requirements and reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how to take control of server sprawl with a server consolidation solution. Posted: 09 Sep 2009 \| Published: 09 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Logical Partitions \| Network Infrastructure \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization

The Great Virtualization Dilemma of the Next Decade: What You Need to Know sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel ANALYST REPORT: Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners. Posted: 03 Sep 2009 \| Published: 03 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Performance \| ROI \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| VM

Virtualization and Your Storage Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe Technology Solution EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Storage virtualization can bring many benefits to an organization including reduced costs, higher capacity, and greater data protection. This SearchStorage E-Guide was developed to give storage managers practical guidelines and best practices to consider when evaluating how to best leverage virtualization in their storage infrastructure. Posted: 21 Aug 2009 \| Published: 21 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

Northern Storage Suite V8 - Product Demo sponsored by Northern Parklife PRODUCT DEMO: Northern Storage Suite is a Storage Resource Management solution; a software solution that targets the costs and complexities of managing stored user-generated data. Download this free demo and see how it can go to work for you! Posted: 06 Aug 2009 \| Published: 06 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Capacity Planning \| Data Management Software \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| NAS \| Network Performance \| Reporting Software \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Tiered Storage

Northern Solution Series: Profiting From Real-World Storage Management sponsored by Northern Parklife WHITE PAPER: The Northern Storage Suite is a management solution by Northern Parklife Inc. that will help reclaim, reduce and maximize your current infrastructure. This article provides four real-world examples dealing with reclaiming capacity, reducing data growth, maximizing storage resources, and involving users while minimizing administration. Posted: 03 Aug 2009 \| Published: 03 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| NAS \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Resource Management \| Tiered Storage

Optimizing Virtualization to Deliver Best-in-Class Outcomes sponsored by VKernel WHITE PAPER: This EMA paper (prepared for VKernel) discusses the challenges in achieving virtualization goals in the enterprise and how capacity management can help optimize resource utilization while maintaining performance. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Enterprise Resource Management \| IT Service Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Performance \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization

Case Study: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Assuring improvements in business continuity with Fax on Demand sponsored by Esker Inc. CASE STUDY: Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures. Posted: 17 Jul 2009 \| Published: 17 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuation Services \| Business Continuity Planning \| Capacity Planning \| Communications Software \| Communications Systems \| Fax Machines \| Fax Services \| Fax Software

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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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