TECHNICAL ARTICLE - IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Storage | Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper will show how Atrato’s unique products introduce green benefits to the data center while increasing both capacity and performance. Atrato’s no compromise solution gives customers the option to go green while improving the efficiency of their data centers.
Posted: February 24, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Power Consumption Monitoring | Storage Capacity

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to find out how Microsoft recommended the use of Akorri’s BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software for daily performance baselining that provides before and after virtualization comparisons of all infrastructure to maximize resource optimization, load balancing, and capacity planning and growth.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Published: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Spending | Load Balancing | Network Monitoring | Performance Testing | Server Virtualization | Software Migration | UNIX

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about various virtualization tools on the market and the differences between them. Discover how to enhance application performance and capacity management with virtualization management technologies. Find out which tools would work best in a VMware environment.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Premiered: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Data Centers | Infrastructure Management | Server Virtualization | VMware

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses how using two different back up methods for active and inactive data can simplify management, reduce capital cost structure and operational costs.
Posted: February 19, 2010 | Premiered: February 19, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Data Deduplication | NAS | Storage Best Practices | Tiered Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  View this whitepaper to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.
Posted: February 15, 2010 | Published: February 15, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Disk Backups | Server Consolidation | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

PODCAST - Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  Listen to this podcast to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Premiered: February 9, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Disk Backups | Server Consolidation | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WEBCAST - Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  View this webcast to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Premiered: February 9, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Disk Backups | Server Consolidation | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

EZINE - Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do a lot of investigative work. Software management tools can help, but well developed business processes are also important. Learn some tips and tricks to make managing virtual environments a little bit easier.
Posted: February 2, 2010 | Published: February 2, 2010


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | VM

WHITE PAPER - By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource efficiency and simplify storage administration tasks such as problem diagnosis and change management.
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  Capacity on Demand | Capacity Planning | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Monitor

ANALYST REPORT - Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Networking | LAN | LAN Switches | LAN Switching | Networking Hardware | Switch Fabric | Switches | Switching

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This 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.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: December 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Systems Management | Testing | Virtualization Security

WHITE PAPER - More than 1500 z/Journal readers and BMC Software customers worldwide recently shared their top priorities for IT in 2010. The survey results might surprise you. Get the full report.
Posted: January 14, 2010 | Published: January 14, 2010


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | High Performance Computing | Mainframe Computers | MIPS | ROI | Server Virtualization

EZINE - Microsoft made some big improvements in SharePoint 2010, but a few problems remain that still annoy SharePoint administrators. In this month's issue, find out what's good and what's not so good in the newest version of SharePoint. Also in this issue, get started on SharePoint capacity planning, and learn how to automate SharePoint governance.
Posted: December 17, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Collaborative Applications Software | Collaborative Master Data Management | Data Governance | Data Management Software | Document Management Software | Microsoft Office | Workflow Software

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, 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: December 4, 2009 | Published: December 4, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Business IT Alignment | Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Systems Management