WHITE PAPER - Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | High Performance Computing | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration

PODCAST - In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | Purchasing Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Reporting Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Open Source | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization

EZINE - In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology.
Posted: May 6, 2009 | Published: May 6, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Authentication | Authorization | Capacity Planning | Collaborative Product Development | IT Spending | Load Balancing | SOA | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Testing | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.
Posted: April 24, 2009 | Premiered: April 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Capacity Planning | Data Management | Data Storage | IT Service Management | IT Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Metrics | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | IT Governance | Mainframe Server Hardware | Performance Testing | z/OS

TRIAL SOFTWARE - MessageStats simplifies management of Exchange helping IT administrators to improve performance, increase efficiencies and plan for capacity requirements.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Compliance Best Practices | Messaging Security | Microsoft Exchange | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Monitoring Software | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Reporting Software | Server Accelerators | Server Management | SLA

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript highlights a solution that helps eliminate wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

CASE STUDY - In its VMware server environment, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) needed to get more proactive visibility into its resource utilization and allocations to plan for future growth.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | CIOs | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ROI | Server Virtualization | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized by flux.
Posted: November 17, 2008 | Published: November 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Models | Capacity Planning | Collaboration | IP | Outsourcing | Telecommunications Carrier Systems | Telecommunications Services | Telephony Systems