Capacity Planning Research
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What to Consider Before Upgrading or Maintaining Your SAN
Sponsored by: Rockland IT SolutionsCheck out this white paper if you're not sure if you need to upgrade or maintain your SAN.
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Analytics Required to Successfully Manage Performance and Capacity in Cloud Environments
Sponsored by: VMTurboDiscover 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.
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Worldwide Purpose-Built Backup Appliance 2011-2015 Forecast Update: Explosive Growth in 2011
Sponsored by: EMC CorporationThis IDC Forecast Update provides share positions for revenue and raw capacity for 9 named Purpose-Built Backup Appliance vendors for the first half of 2011. In addition, this study provides the market size and a 5-year forecast for the worldwide PBBA market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage. Read now to learn more.
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E-Brief: Capacity Planning for Virtualized Infrastructure
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this expert 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.
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VM Management: How to walk the data center resource balancing act
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelWhile underutilized data centers waste valuable resources, overly used infrastructures can subject organizations to potential hardware failures. This expert tip provides best practices for properly managing your IT environment and the physical, virtual, and cloud resources that comprise it.
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A 5-step process for IT directors to make life easier through database optimization
Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation UK LtdThis white paper details five steps an IT organizations can take to optimize their databases for improved response time to users.
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Successfully Navigate the Virtualization Path
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelThis 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
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Real World Data Center Management: Part 3
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelIn this video, Christian Liem, Server Manager at Gensler, shares his views on capacity planning, automation, the value in standardizing IT resources, both the technology and the process for delivering it. Watch this video to learn more about the issues and progress on their virtualized environment.
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State of systems management and data center services: 2011
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelBecause virtualization and cloud computing separate workloads from physical machines, they add to the difficulties of managing systems within the data center. This expert lesson explores the landscape for systems management and reveals statistical findings concerning systems management technologies and trends.
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The smart money's on IT: How the Data Center drives sustainable growth
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelThis white paper describes the link between data center efficiency and business sustainability. Obtain detailed guidelines to help you make the link between these essential elements.
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Seven Best Practices for Increasing Efficiency, Availability and Capacity: The Enterprise Data Center Design Guide
Sponsored by: Liebert CorporationThe data center is one of the most critical operations in any business. Unfortunately, data center complexity has increased in recent years, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance. Learn how to overcome data center challenges with 7 best practices for improving performance.
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vSphere Monitoring: 6 Reports You Might Be Missing
Sponsored by: Veeam SoftwareRemember when virtualization was the hottest technology around? Back then, things were easy. Of course, those were virtualization’s early days, with low-hanging fruit and opportunities for improvement aplenty. But, then, something happened. Read on to learn more.
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Grid Computing Techniques for Data Center Modernization
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThe Oracle Grid computing architecture features many powerful techniques that improve energy efficiency and data center productivity.
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IT Handbook: Planning a Server Refresh
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelServer 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.
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E-Guide: Best Practices for Managing Virtual Environments
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareIn this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management.
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Frictionless IT: Self-Service Means Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Service Delivery
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelMany companies struggle with the execution of self-service IT. Join us for a 60-minute interactive Webcast that explores the potential inherent in self-service IT and offers solid advice and examples of how to get there.
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Taming the Data Demons: Leveraging Information in the Age of Risk
Sponsored by: IBMCheck out this webcast from IBM as it discusses the advantages of implementing a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both the “why” and “how” to begin putting a holistic data risk management program to work in businesses of all sizes.
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Data Deduplication FAQ
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationJoin Founder and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Jerome Wendt as he answers the most common data deduplication questions he’s hearing today – including the technology’s benefits, dedupe products to watch out for, target dedupe on a virtual tape library and more.
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Quantum DXi Deduplication Appliance Makes Backup and Recovery an Easy Case
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationWhen Baker & McKenzie’s tape-based data protection strategy reached its limits, they decided to switch to a centralized backup solution with a DXi deduplication appliance as the foundation. Read this case study to learn why Baker & McKenzie decided to go with Quantum’s solution to handle their backup and recovery needs.
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The different dedupe offerings
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationCheck out this interactive classroom for a storage refresher course on the topic of deduplicaiton and gain insight on how you can better leverage this technology to benefit the overall success of your businesses.
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Quantum Interactive Classroom: Dedupe for Backup
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThis interactive classroom features exclusive expert content designed to get IT administrators up to speed on deduplication. The classroom includes a video that explores the different types of deduplication and how these technologies help IT pros optimize and enhance already existing storage infrastructures.
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Presentation Transcript: Virtualization 101 - Part 2 Moving From Test to Production
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareThis presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.
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Server Virtualization 101: Part 2 Moving from Test to Production
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareThis videocast offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.
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Podcast: Server Virtualization 101: Part 2 Moving from Test to Production
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareThis podcast offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.
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Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Sponsored by: APC by Schneider ElectricElectricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
