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How Banks Gain a Competitive Advantage in the Digital Age with Capacity Planning

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...
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IT as a Competitive Advantage

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 mean...
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Monitoring and Planning in a Solaris Environment

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.
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 implement...
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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.
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IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights

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 issues...