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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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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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Network Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware \| VMware ESX \| VMware Server

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 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Capacity Planning \| Network Traffic Management \| Rich Media Formats \| User Experience \| Video Services \| Video-on-Demand \| Video-over-DSL \| Videoconferences

Expert Tips for Effective Virtual Systems Management sponsored by BMC Software, Inc EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: In this E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and BMC, you will discover expert tips for effective virtual systems management. Explore the top five target areas essential for improved virtual performance and availability management. Posted: 01 Jul 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Enterprise Resource Management \| High Availability \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance Management Software \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Service Level Management \| Systems Management

Seven Requirements for Balancing Control and Agility in the Virtual Environment sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: Unparalleled agility is the promise of virtualization. But managing change, staying compliant, and preventing virtual sprawl are just a few of the challenges you could face before you reap the rewards. VMware joined us recently to co-author 7 must-read tips for striking the perfect balance in your virtual environment. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 17 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Change Management \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Configuration Management \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware \| VMware Server

Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 17 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Migration

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 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Capacity Planning \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| IT Best Practices \| Purchasing Best Practices \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. Posted: 15 Jun 2009 \| Published: 15 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization

Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Sun™ Logical Domains sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 05 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Open Source \| Operating Systems \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Software Testing eZine Vol.2 - Testing Strategies for Complex Environments: Agile, SOA sponsored by SearchSoftwareQuality.com EZINE: In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology. Posted: 06 May 2009 \| Published: 06 May 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Authentication \| Authorization \| Capacity Planning \| Collaborative Product Development \| IT Spending \| Load Balancing \| SOA \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Testing \| Testing

Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments sponsored by CA WHITE PAPER: Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. Posted: 29 Apr 2009 \| Published: 29 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fault Management \| Fault Tolerance \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Server Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Business Service Management \| Capacity Planning \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| IT Service Management \| IT Services \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users. Posted: 17 Apr 2009 \| Published: 17 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Metrics \| Business Performance Management \| Capacity Planning \| IT Governance \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Performance Testing \| z/OS

MessageStats Version 6.5.1 - Exchange Server Reporting and Analysis sponsored by ScriptLogic Corporation TRIAL SOFTWARE: MessageStats simplifies management of Exchange helping IT administrators to improve performance, increase efficiencies and plan for capacity requirements. Posted: 15 Apr 2009 \| Published: 15 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Compliance Best Practices \| Messaging Security \| Microsoft Exchange \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Monitoring Software \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Reporting Software \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| SLA

Stop Wasting Storage: Reclaim Capacity, Reduce Growth Rate and Maximize Return on Hardware Investment (Presentation Transcript) sponsored by Northern Parklife PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript highlights a solution that helps eliminate wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space. Posted: 27 Mar 2009 \| Published: 27 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management

VKernel Case Study: Proactive Capacity Optimization for Hershey Entertainment & Resorts sponsored by VKernel CASE STUDY: In its VMware server environment, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) needed to get more proactive visibility into its resource utilization and allocations to plan for future growth. Posted: 06 Mar 2009 \| Published: 06 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

Data Center Projects: System Planning sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. Posted: 04 Feb 2009 \| Published: 04 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Hardware Configuration Management \| Hardware Management \| Infrastructure Management \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization sponsored by SearchCIO.com WHITE PAPER: Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| CIOs \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Electronic Discovery \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Vendors

Data Center Projects: Growth Model sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Posted: 21 Nov 2008 \| Published: 21 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Systems \| TCO \| Vendors

The Future Carrier Network: Adopting New Outsourcing Business Models sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent WHITE PAPER: This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized by flux. Posted: 17 Nov 2008 \| Published: 17 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Business Models \| Capacity Planning \| Collaboration \| IP \| Outsourcing \| Telecommunications Carrier Systems \| Telecommunications Services \| Telephony Systems

Capacity Analyzer: Optimize Capacity, Maximize Performance, Instant ROI sponsored by VKernel DATA SHEET: By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems. Posted: 14 Nov 2008 \| Published: 14 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Databases \| Downtime \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Memory \| Performance Testing \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

VKernel Case Study: Visibility into Resource Utilization for Hasbro Inc. sponsored by VKernel CASE STUDY: Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines. Posted: 14 Nov 2008 \| Published: 14 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Authentication \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Data Visualization \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Linux \| Memory \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

How to Implement Chargeback in a Virtualized Data Center Using the Resource Consumption Model sponsored by VKernel WHITE PAPER: When IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback. Posted: 27 Feb 2008 \| Published: 27 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Asset Management (Finance) \| Capacity Planning \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Management \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Network Appliances \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment sponsored by VKernel WHITE PAPER: In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems. Posted: 26 Feb 2008 \| Published: 26 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| Network Appliances \| Network Monitoring \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Eliminating Tape and Trucks from the Disaster Recovery Process sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation. Posted: 30 Aug 2007 \| Published: 30 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Content Archiving \| Continuous Data Protection \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Tape Backups \| WAN

Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms. Posted: 22 Jun 2007 \| Published: 22 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Design \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Power Generation Equipment \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

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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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