Capacity Planning Reports

EBRIEF: Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how performance and capacity management software can help prevent your infrastructure from becoming too complex and costly to operate. This white paper outlines how your organisation can optimise their IT environment with this software.

Posted: 31 May 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how proactive and automated workload management can help you maximize virtualization ROI and deliver truly optimized workload performance. Read on to discover what most virtual management tools are lacking and how you can gain the analytical abilities you need.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Server buyers should consider the implications of vendor roadmaps and consolidation and look to capacity planning and objective tools when updating data center hardware. In this IT handbook you will learn the importance of a server roadmap, factors to consider in server selection, tips on server consolidation and capacity planning, and much more.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: How do you keep up with increases in user demand without adding costly new hardware? Utilize Citrix NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow to deliver 5x capacity on-demand without adding any additional hardware. Get investment protection and elasticity for your network.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is becoming more common across organizations, but what are effective ways to help maximize what this application has to offer? Check out this IDC survey and learn how utilizing capacity management while moving to the cloud can help optimize your IT infrastructure to better meet business needs.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Most IT disasters have nothing to do with the hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods that can wipe out a facility. In fact, studies show that hardware failure is the number one reason for DR declarations.  This e-guide describes common DR misconceptions and consequences, and provides backup and testing suggestions for optimal recovery.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: As health care IT seeks to find ways to cut costs everywhere, it will be forced to aggressively adopt primary storage optimization technologies such as thin provisioning. Learn more inside this exclusive e-guide.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript, brought to you by our editors, offers advice to help you successfully navigate the virtualization path. Hear how one company decided on a virtualization strategy and put the appropriate measures in place to effectively manage its virtual environment

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 | Published: 17 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With cloud computing rapidly evolving, energy management is a key factor IT professionals must address when planning and provisioning their cloud data center strategies to reduce energy costs. Access this white paper to review an open data center roadmap that addresses your key IT concerns for more secure, efficient, and simple cloud architectures.

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 | Published: 17 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many IT departments have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed; demanding a different approach – capacity management. This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management approach.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Different managers have different philosophies for project planning and scheduling, especially when it comes to meeting deadlines. But what if there was a way to improve risk management in relation to corporate projects? Learn how capacity planning provides the foresight necessary to complete projects on time and boost customer satisfaction.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization offers a more flexible solution where resources can be redistributed in accordance with shifting demands. However, virtualization resources add a new abstraction layer to the infrastructure stack, which can complicate IT service optimization. Read on to learn best practices for optimizing IT services in complex virtual environments.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The flexibility and cost alternatives provided by virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS present organizations with a choice of platforms to run applications or a business service. These computing models highlight the need for a better capacity management process. Learn about effectively managing capacity for improvements in business services.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Take this capacity management maturity assessment in order to better understand how your company handles performance goals, business forecasting and business process management. Gain advice based on your answers to the assessment questions that will help move your company to higher levels of maturity.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to get advice on how to enhance efficiency in your data center and take a closer look at what needs to be done in the system, platform, and facilities level of your enterprise.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With the emergence of cloud computing, businesses are looking to increase their storage capacity to support the increase in digital content . Access this white paper to learn how about scale-out-storage initiatives that will benefit your business.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: When moving to the cloud, storage metrics can significantly help to improve efficiency and capacity management, optimizing your SAN environment. Access this white paper to learn how these metrics can help you effectively manage your computing and traditional environments.

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 | Published: 04 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM IT service management solutions help control costs, enhance performance and increase security in the virtual environment, with software for IT provisioning, IT monitoring, virtual storage, IT security, usage and accounting, software license management and more.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge for IT leaders today is making sure that projects are aligned with the strategic and financial goals of their organizations. Learn why implementing a project and portfolio management (PPM) approach could help simplify your objectives. Gain insight on PPM topics such as allocating resources, capacity planning and more.

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This tutorial from SearchStorage.com explores different backup tools that can improve the efficiency and utilization of your IT infrastructure by getting the most out of your storage capacity. Backup methods discussed in this tutorial include SRM tools, tiered storage models, classification and migration tools, thin provisioning and more.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM reduces the complexity of managing cloud environments by offering a complete portfolio of automated solutions for managing data and storage infrastructure, enabling better efficiency for business resiliency, and helping to reduce costs and improve security.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the capacity efficiency technologies delivered in the EMC® VNX™ series of storage platforms.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 20 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of a podcast interview, Jeff Boles of the Taneja Group examines some of the business drivers behind storage tiering. He also explores some of the challenges associated with tiered storage, such as data migration, and how effectively addressing these challenges can be the key to tiered storage success.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Til Stimberg, HP's Storage Product Marketing Manager, will discuss the various technologies that can optimize data storage efficiency and address performance and capacity - without impacting availability in a cost-effective manner. Read this presentation transcript to see how your organization can start increasing your storage efficiency now.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011