Capacity planning

MUST READ Nine tips for nifty capacity planning TIP - It's tough to plan for future capacity needs. It's tougher to know that your plan is on target, and toughest to keep it that way. Read our tip and find out how to do all three. Modeling can be key to capacity planning TIP - Planning for the future of your network sometimes requires rigorous planning and modeling. In this tip, Ed Tittel shows how a free modeling tool just may come to your rescue. Time is ripe for data center infrastructure databases ARTICLE - Many data centers track their IT assets in a CMDB, but as they continue to grow, facility items deserve a database of their own. Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS TIP - Capacity planning is a well understood, strategic exercise. But mainframe managers need to consider strategic versus tactical performance planning. Data centers handle holiday rush ARTICLE - Shoppers aren't the only ones that feel the holiday stress -- data center managers do too.

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	Virtualization brings automated server provisioning into reality SearchDataCenter.com | 06 Jan 2009 ARTICLE - With virtualization, one firm now dynamically provisions servers in its virtual test lab. Next up is the 'holy grail': automated server provisioning in production environments.

	BMC tool optimizes zIIP and zAAP use by IBM mainframe SearchDataCenter.com | 10 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - With the help of capacity performance software from BMC, Harris County says it can better determine which work to offload to mainframe specialty processors.

	IBM tool improves mainframe capacity planning SearchDataCenter.com | 18 Mar 2008 ARTICLE - IBM's new mainframe capacity-planning tool, zPCR, may help systems administrators overcome obstacles in the capacity planning process.

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	Cheap commodity servers can turn into expensive investments 19 Feb 2008 TIP - Installing "cheap" commodity servers turns out to be more expensive than a capacity planning team and a data center equipment procurer plan.

	Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS 10 Apr 2007 TIP - Capacity planning is a well understood, strategic exercise. But mainframe managers need to consider strategic versus tactical performance planning.

	Data center consolidation, virtualization: Ultra-dense server deployments Submitted By: SearchDataCenter.com | 05 Apr 2007 TIP - Combining blade server, virtualization and SAN technologies in the data center leads to ultra-dense server deployments, which can save on hardware costs and power.

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	Data Center Library: Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology SearchDataCenter.com | 21 Nov 2006 BOOKS - A review of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology by Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Enterprise Architect Rob Snevely.

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	Developing a server consolidation plan - Expert Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   26 JAN 2006, 09:00 EST (14:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   Register for this webcast to learn how to identify risks, chose a vendor and discuss ROI considerations while helping you develop a virtual infrastructure that can build efficiencies in your business process flow.

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	What is capacity on demand? Search390.com | 10 Jan 2005 BEST WEB LINK - Check out the definition for capacity on demand from WhatIs.com.

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	Uptime Institute, Inc. 13 Dec 2006 WORD - The Uptime Institute, Inc. is a consortium of companies devoted to maximizing efficiency and uptime in data centers and IT (information technology) organizations. Member companies learn from each other through sponsored ...

	capacity planning 24 Apr 2005 WORD - 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 ...

	server sprawl 22 Mar 2005 WORD - Server sprawl is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized servers take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their workload. Common causes of server sprawl include the purchase of a large ...

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	SEE ALSO - Topics Related to Capacity planning:  Hardware and performance monitoring, Process automation technologies, Configuration and change management