Blog
How Banks Gain a Competitive Advantage in the Digital Age with Capacity Planning
Mon, 08/31/2015
Cloud computing offers institutions a viable solution to optimizing their IT infrastructure. Through the use of a third-party cloud provider, banks can start storing data from all platforms and devices on remote servers, freeing up their legacy systems from demand they are often unable to process. That’s why the capacity management tools banks use must not only provide real-time data, but support the software of all different kinds of cloud providers and mobile platforms.
Blog
IT as a Competitive Advantage
By Per Bauer on Tue, 06/16/2015
Make IT a competitive advantage by providing high customer satisfaction, efficient daily operations, and accurate CapEx planning. Build a strategic and tailored plan to increase your IT efficiency, reliability, and speed.
How do you make IT a competitive advantage?
Increase IT efficiency - OpEx, CapEx, and staff productivity
Efficiency often means doing more with less, but it can also...
Blog
Monitoring and Planning in a Solaris Environment
Tue, 12/30/2014
Learn how to manage your Solaris environment--optimize hardware utilization, conserve datacenter floor space, power, and cooling, build a scalable architecture and keep up with growth and performance requirements--with TeamQuest.
Blog
Agile Operations for the Software Defined Data Center and the Cloud
Mon, 07/07/2014
Cloud and DevOps drive need for new performance management software architecture.
Guide
How to Manage IT Resource Consumption
At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management
In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...
Article
Optimize IT Services with a Capacity Management Information System (CMIS)
Sun, 01/30/2011
A good Capacity Management Information System (CMIS), combined with proven Capacity Management processes, can help you simplify IT Service Optimization; keeping your systems and applications running efficiently and reliably.
Guide
Commercial Clusters and Scalability
In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Guide
How to Write Application Performance Agents in TeamQuest Performance Software 7.2 or 8
TeamQuest (now Vityl Capacity Management) provides unintrusive mechanisms for instrumenting
applications and analyzing application performance. Neil Gunther describes how to use
those mechanisms.
Article
IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights
By Per Bauer on Sat, 11/15/2008
Survey Says Chaos Reigns
A global survey of more than 300 IT executives, directors and managers revealed that the majority of IT organizations (53%) rank in the chaotic level of IT Service Optimization maturity.
That means these organizations lack a consistent process to manage and improve the quality and efficiency of their services and will continue firefighting performance and capacity...