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Oregon School Boards Association Uses RPA to Maintain Critical Policies

The Oregon School Boards Association is a non-profit member services agency for more than 200 locally elected boards serving school districts, education service districts, and community colleges. OSBA helps locally-elected volunteers fulfill their complex public education roles. Watch the video to get a snapshot of their story and read on for more details. ...
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk

How do you calculate IT health and risk? There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs. The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are: Threshold comparison Enhanced threshold comparison Event detection Variation from normal Allocation comparison Queuing theory for health On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT...
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A Roadmap for Consolidation

There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
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Humanitarian Organization Reduces Application Slowdowns by 94%

Organization Description: This humanitarian group organizes more than 500,000 volunteer employees to help victims of tragedy across the United States. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped this non-profit reduce the number of application slowdowns by 94 percent in only four months. ...
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Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money

Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped to significantly optimize the physical CPU base, maximize usage of CPU and memory resources, lower the cost per unit of CPU to clients and improve the time to market. The Fortune 500 financial services company now charges 25 percent less per unit of CPU in its virtualized environment. These benefits have helped justify...
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Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank

Organization Description: In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management: The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control over the operations of...
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...