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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	Indemnification, support woes plague open source systems management SearchDataCenter.com | 18 May 2009 ARTICLE - With a recession and growing enterprise acceptance of open source, open source systems management tools should do well. But many IT managers prefer proprietary tools.

	Configuration management skills are vital to going green in the data center SearchDataCenter.com | 07 May 2009 ARTICLE - Understanding the current state of your data center, including its configuration items, is the key to improving power consumption and data center efficiency.

	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.

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	Five ways to consolidate servers and extend the life of your data center 02 Jul 2009 TIP - Today, data center managers face growing IT demand and shrinking budgets. If you're running out of room for more servers, check out these tactics for shrinking your IT footprint.

	Capacity planning tools tutorial for Linux and Unix 06 May 2009 TIP - Effective capacity planning is a proactive way of ensuring that your data center servers will not prematurely run out of space or horsepower. Learn the tools available to help you.

	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.

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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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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 5

	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 ...

	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 ...

	server consolidation 22 Mar 2005 WORD - Server consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer server resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations that an organization requires. The practice developed in response to ...

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