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Global IT Management Survey 2016—NewsWorthy Analysis
Mon, 02/01/2016
Results of a Kelton survey in which IT departments in large enterprises are tasked with responding to numerous business-impacting issues on any given day, including equipment failures, fluctuating website demand, and data security.
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Vityl and ITIL
Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
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Supporting ITIL Objectives
Tue, 02/04/2014
Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
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Implementing a Consolidation Strategy
Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality
"IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement."
Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc.
GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY
Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
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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...
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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.
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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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Capacity Calculations: Handle with Care
This paper discusses avoiding calculation results that are more precise than is justified by precision of corresponding measurement input data.
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How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results
This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.
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UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works
In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
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UNIX Load Average Part 2: Not Your Average Average
This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.
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UNIX Load Average: Reweighed
This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.