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  • Tuning performance and capacity management

    As data centers virtualize a greater number of resources and scale for more workloads, two tasks become critical to ensure application performance: performance monitoring and capacity planning. Whether these servers are physical or... E-Book   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • Scaling up your data center when demand exceeds computing capacity

    When outsourcing your data center for more computing capacity, there are several courses of action and options to consider before inking a contract. Feature   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • How a server redundancy mindset helps with capacity planning

    Though there is no "one size fits all" way to approach capacity planning, server redundancy is a good place to start. Answer   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • capacity sprawl

    Capacity sprawl, in a storage context, is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized or badly managed storage media occupy more overall space than can be justified by actual need. Definition   |   WhatIs

  • VMware Capacity Planner (VCP)

    VMware Capacity Planner is a tool that collects information on an IT infrastructure's resource usage and compares it to industry-average data. Definition   |   SearchVMware.com

  • Is VMware Capacity Planner free?

    Many consultants offer VMware Capacity Planner free to interested virtualization admins, but if you dread their sales pitch, consider vBenchmark. Answer   |   SearchVMware.com

  • Predicting your unpredictable capacity needs in the data center

    The rise of mobile devices and other advances make capacity planning a difficult proposition for IT professionals. Podcast   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • A variety of options make data center expansion difficult

    When MIT launched edX, an online education resource, professors never dreamed that interested students would jump at the opportunity. Anant Agarwal, president of edX, had expected 5,000 participants, but 120,000... Feature   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • Ways to improve local storage performance on virtual servers

    Making small adjustments to the hard drive settings of virtual servers, along with some other changes, can deliver better performance with minimal effort.

    Data centers that are highly virtualized usually select storage area networks... Tip   |   SearchDataCenter.com

  • Q&A: How data centers can keep up with massive Internet user growth

    As Internet user growth stretches current network capacity thin, how can data center planners hit the moving target of future bandwidth needs? Q&A   |   SearchDataCenter.com

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