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How to Get Buy-In for Your IT Cost Optimization Strategy
By Per Bauer on Fri, 08/28/2020
Policy alone is rarely enough to influence change. Lasting impact requires buy-in from the organization and is best achieved using a mix of different influence levers.
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How to Improve IT Efficiency: 3 Strategies to Keep Services Up and Costs Down
By Per Bauer on Wed, 06/26/2019
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How to Answer Key Capacity Planning Strategy Questions
Fri, 06/21/2019
Anyone who works for a large organization knows that July isn’t just a time for fireworks and BBQs. It’s also when you plan your budget for the next fiscal year.
If you work in IT, you know you’re always expected to have an answer for everything. But when it comes to planning your budget, there are really only two questions that need to be asked.
Do you have enough resources on hand for the...
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The True Cost of Workload-Related Outages
Thu, 06/06/2019
Underestimating the consequences of downtime can be hugely detrimental to your productivity. Accurately calculating those costs won’t just prevent disasters, but also help you effectively manage your capacity planning efforts.
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What is Capacity Planning?
By Scott Adams on Wed, 06/05/2019
What is Capacity Planning?
IT capacity planning is a process used to manage IT service delivery. Business services depend on IT resources in most organizations. Retail organizations need IT to make sure their POS system stays up and running – even on days with unusually high transaction counts, like Black Friday. Banks and other financial services providers...
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8 Things Your Capacity Management Tool Should Do
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/15/2019
A capacity management tool should help your IT team in 8 key ways. If you're replacing your tool or starting a capacity management practice, this is the place to start.
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Buyer's Guide: Capacity Management Tool Checklist
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
What makes a good capacity management tool? There are six major factors to consider when choosing a capacity management tool, and the right tool should account for all of them.
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Make 2019 the Year of Capacity Planning in IT
Thu, 01/17/2019
You know IT capacity planning is important. But have you been doing it?
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Ask a Capacity Management Expert (Webinar Recap)
By Per Bauer on Wed, 10/03/2018
Get the answers to some of the hottest capacity management questions.
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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments
By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud.
It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible.
With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
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Making the Best Capacity Management Tool Even Better
By Scott Adams on Mon, 07/16/2018
The best capacity management tool just got better. With just one tool, manage your entire hybrid IT environment, prevent outages, and keep services up and running.
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How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning
Tue, 04/24/2018
Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.
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What is a Capacity Management Maturity Model?
By Per Bauer on Sat, 01/20/2018
Demands for services are increasing. High performance and reliability are expected. Yet budgets, labor and floor space are all being constrained. That’s where capacity management comes in. Capacity management can improve efficiency and guarantee reliability of your business systems.