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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.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Simplify Capacity Management

Thu, 04/19/2018
Watch this webinar to learn how to truly understand your systems and server capacity with simple but effective methods. Plan for future growth—even in your virtual environments.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Getting Started with Your Cloud Migration

By Keith Digby
You’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, but what migration strategy will keep your costs down and be most efficient? You have two main strategies for moving workloads to the cloud: Refactoring or Lift and Shift. Refactoring requires more time on the front end to optimize workloads prior to migrating. Lift and Shift moves eligible workloads right away,...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Improve Your Organization's IT Maturity

By Per Bauer
IT Maturity is often associated with increased efficiency and reduced risk, two forces that will drive valuable improvements. But without a full understanding of the business objectives and how IT needs to be aligned with those full optimization is not possible. The IT Service Optimization Maturity Model will allow you to gradually improve without losing track of any important aspect.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Q&A with a Capacity Management Expert, Part Two

Tue, 03/06/2018
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: Is capacity management still relevant in the cloud? Why do large companies still struggle with capacity management? Does capacity management support or hinder DevOps?
Infrastructure Management
Blog

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.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

What is Capacity Management?

By Tom Huntington
Capacity management is the practice of ensuring you have enough IT resources to meet business demands (without overspending). But your IT environment is a lot more complex than it used to be...
Infrastructure Management
Case Study

Victaulic makes Short Work of Ad Hoc Queries with Surveyor/400

Ad hoc queries and reports are the bane of many IT departments. The need to churn out frequent, one-off, "must have" data queries for users can be a significant drain on developers' time. Users can't be blamed for the numerous impromptu requests. Customer service, continuous improvement, and the maintenance of competitive advantage demand that business people regularly look at data in innovative...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Data Protection
Secure File Transfer
IBM i Automation
Blog

Five Causes of Performance Bottlenecks in IT

Wed, 08/09/2017
As IT infrastructures continue to grow more complex, finding performance bottlenecks gets hard. That’s why it’s absolutely essential that IT teams have the tools, training, and resources necessary to quickly identify causes of poor application performance.
Infrastructure Management
system performance management
Blog

Performance Management

By Per Bauer on Sat, 07/22/2017
What is Performance Management? IT performance management is responsible for everyday aspects of capacity management, like monitoring performance and resources, planning changes to make efficient use of resources, analyzing performance, and reporting back to the business. Now more than ever, your company’s bottom line rests on your ability to provide 24/7...
Automation
Capacity Planning for IT Managers
Blog

IT Maturity

By Per Bauer on Fri, 06/16/2017
What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to achieve concurrent...
Automation
On-Demand Webinar

How to Drive Business Value with Capacity Management

By Per Bauer
Today’s businesses—and IT environments—are complex. Technology is changing rapidly, which makes it all the more difficult to manage. You may have considered capacity management to right-size your IT environment. But you might be wondering, “What do I get out of this?” Find out how capacity management will have an impact on your bottom line (and beyond).
Infrastructure Management