If the world moves toward “on demand” capacity and virtualization, could you throw away all of your capacity-planning tools? Although that may seem logical at first glance, the opposite may actually ...

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Capacity planning in the three key areas-storage, virtualization and backup-is the subject of a white paper from Tek-Tools Software. Author George Crump of IT consultancy Storage Switzerland writes in ...

Much was made about VMware expanding its management product portfolio back during VMworld 2008 as the company hinted around an entire new series of vCenter products and modules in the coming months ...

Managing storage as it proliferates in an enterprise is a big challenge. The key to storage management is capacity planning-- understanding how much storage is available, knowing where the storage is ...

Capacity planning can be a vexing issue for most IT organizations because getting it wrong has an adverse effect on application performance that just about everybody in the organization notices. The ...

Project management is a simple concept but in practice, it’s a chaotic timeline twisted up with a thousand different priorities. You need to manage your team’s needs, project tasks and deadlines, all ...

Long ago, when servers still came one to a box, “sysadmins” spent all their time running from one machine to another, with boxes of tools and utilities designed to squeeze out every bit of performance ...

At The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., virtualization has gone mainstream in a big way. The Hartford, Conn.-based insurer has deployed 700 virtual servers and another 1,300 virtual PCs on 50 ...