Podcast:	The Power of Performance Surveyor
White paper:	Optimizing Datacenter and Cloud Performance: The TeamQuest Approach

 

White paper:	The Total Economic Impact of TeamQuest Performance Software
Article:	Four Ways Capacity Planning Can Help Your Cloud Initiatives

 

Webinar:	The Key to Virtual and Cloud Computing
Podcast:	Funding ITIL through Capacity Management

 

Video:	How to Do Capacity Planning
Article:	Telecom Giant uses TeamQuest for Successful Mobile Device Launch

 

White Paper:	The Total Economic Impact of TeamQuest Performance Software
Article:	How a Capacity Management Information System Helps You Run a Tight IT Ship
White Paper:	The Key to Cloud and Virtual Computing

 

Article:	Capacity Planning Is Dead: Long Live Capacity Planning!
Webinar:	Technology Management: Old Processes, New Challenges

 

It's so true. Capacity planning is dead. Virtualization and cloud have reinvented the way business - oops, I mean IT - provide services to customers. It's simple. Just make room for resources as you need it, right.
 
Read the two articles below for reasons why capacity planning is still vital in today's dynamic environment. Gartner analyst Cameron Haight explained what capacity planners and IT professionals need to do to remain relevant. He isn't too harsh on the industry or the profession. Also, check out how one customer used TeamQuest software to demonstrate that the total capacity of all guest virtual machines is lower than the total capacity of a non-virtualized host server. This exercise helped him suggest the appropriate hardware sizing to avoid performance problems as more customers used the system over time.

Article:	Capacity Planning Is Dead: Long Live Capacity Planning!
Article:	An Inconvenient Truth about Hardware Virtualization
Customer Story:	Visa Europe uses TeamQuest Model to Make Best use of Investments

 

 

Article:	Virtualization Requires Agility and Capacity Planning Excellence
Customer Story:	Legislature uses Capacity Planning Software to Optimize IT Services
Video	TeamQuest Makes it Easy to Succeed

 

Webinar:	Join the Journey: 5 Steps to Capacity Management Maturity
Video:	5 Habits of Highly Successful Capacity Planners
Podcast	Why do Capacity Planning?

 

White paper:	Optimize IT Services with a Capacity Management Information System
White paper:	How to Manage IT Resource Consumption at an Application Level with TeamQuest Workloads
Video	How to Model Multi-Threaded CPUs

 

Podcast:	Cloud Computing: The Next IT Evolution Promises Big Savings
Video:	A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management - Part 2: People
Blog Post	Manage Workloads Like a Game of Tetris

 

Case Story:	VocaLink Mitigates Risks Associated with Application Deployment
Video:	How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
Blog Post	Break the Linear Correlation Between Capacity and Cost

 

White Paper:	How to do Capacity Planning
Video:	5 Habits of Successful Capacity Planners
Customer Story:	Interactive Data Uses TeamQuest to Stay One Step Ahead of Performance

 

Podcast:	Cloud Computing: The Next IT Evolution Promises Big Savings
Video:	How to Prioritize Systems for In-Depth Capacity Planning
TeamQuest Blog:	Better than a Trail of Breadcrumbs

 

White Paper:	Optimize IT Services with a Capacity Management Information System
Customer Story:	Humanitarian Organization Reduces Number of Application Slowdowns by 94% in Four Months
White Paper:	Large Health Insurer Abandons Buy More Hardware Policy, Saves Time & Money

 

White Paper:	Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
Customer Story:	Mississippi Department of Corrections Resolves Performance Issues
White Paper:	How to Ensure a Successful ITIL Implementation

 

White Paper:	Telecom Companies Profit as Cloud Providers
Customer Story:	Legislature uses Capacity Planning Software to Optimize IT Services
Podcast:	Realize Capacity Planning Benefits and Advantages

 

White Paper:	Capacity Management Ensures Success for Enterprise Cloud Consumers
Customer Story:	Telecom Firm Eliminates Bottlenecks and Guarantees High Availability
Podcast:	How to Do Capacity Planning

 

Podcast:	Realize Capacity Planning Benefits and Advantages
Solution Brief:	Make the Best Use of Resources
Customer story:	Mississippi Department of Corrections Resolves Performance Issues

 

White Paper:	Strategies to Improve IT Efficiency in 2010
Video:	How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
Customer story:	Fortune 200 Insurance Company Reduces Costs by 25 Percent

 

Video:	TeamQuest Makes it Easy to Succeed
News Release:	Follow IT Maturity Model for Competitive Advantage
ITSO Blog:	Capacity Manager Skills will be Hot in 2010
On Demand Webinar:	TeamQuest Software Wizard-Based Reporting Delivers Business and IT Transparency

 

Video:	Capacity Modeling Helps SLAC Show Value
Video:	Increase IT Maturity with ITIL and ITSO
ITSO Blog:	The REAL How to Manage Capacity in Virtualized Environments

 

White Paper:	Introducing a Capacity Management Maturity Model.
Customer Story:	Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money.
ITSO Blog:	The Next Decade: The "IT Enterprise" & IT Optimization

 

Videos:	A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management - Part 4 of 4. How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
Interview:	10 Things you Should Know about Server Virtualization.
Solution Brief:	Optimize Your Virtualization Strategy

 

Video:	A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management - Part 3 of 4.
Interview:	10 Things you Should Know about Server Virtualization.
News Release:	TeamQuest Software Maximizes VMware Performance

 

White Paper:	Grab More Post-virtualization Savings.
Customer Story:	Insurance Company Reduces IT Costs by 25%.
Video:	A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management - Part 2 of 4.

 

Video:	A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management - Part 1 of 4.
White Paper:	Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management.
Podcast:	Realize Capacity Planning Benefits and Advantages

 

Find out where to start and how to complement your ITIL project using IT Service Optimization. Law School Admissions Council found success. Read this article to find out the savings you can experience.
 

TeamQuest paid house visits to three sick patients and prescribed the right fixes with TeamQuest Model. Find out what ailed these patients and how you can use TeamQuest Model to remedy your ailments.
 

Find out where to start and how to complement your ITIL project using IT Service Optimization. Law School Admissions Council found success. Read this article to find out the savings you can experience.
 

Last month's TeamQuest Technology Summit addressed cloud computing, virtualization, IT Service Optimization and success stories of companies using TeamQuest software. CEO Jerred Ruble kicked off the event by outlining the health and future of TeamQuest. Find out what he had to say.
 

Sore throats, coughs, congestion and the flu bug can wreak havoc on productivity. We take great strides to either work through the sickness or get some rest. To be at our most productive, we must maintain our health. IT should ensure it does the same with its infrastructure. Discover the TeamQuest prescription for maintaining a healthy IT environment.
 

Anybody with a dartboard can claim to have a server capacity planning tool. Unfortunately, companies selling dartboards for capacity planning aren't likely to be very honest about the sophistication of their tools. Find out what to look for in recommended capacity planning tools.
 

Cost reduction, energy and personnel resources, virtualization and cloud computing are making so much noise in IT circles and data centers that most IT professionals have missed the one discipline that can calm the din of directives - capacity management.
 

Move over virtualization. There's a new talk of the town. Media, analysts and blogs have IT professionals running to the well for this bottled elixir dubbed cloud computing. For all its popularity, this sometimes nebulous phrase can be both promising and frightening.
 

More companies are using virtualization for reasons outside of consolidating servers. Disaster recover comes to mind. As virtualization becomes pervasive in IT, how are companies measuring their success? Ovum conducted a comprehensive virtualization survey that covered this issue and many others.
 

In today's world, it is vital to align IT with business goals. On the business side, there are typically demands to add more users, give those users greater levels of access, and deliver new or better services. The business also requests that applications scale up from smaller environments to enterprise-wide deployments, and that those applications are brought to market at a rapid pace.
 

Automatic workloads are easy to establish with TeamQuest software. Find out how TeamQuest agents bring data into TeamQuest Manager from multiple databases throughout the enterprise. Analysts can then access reports in several ways: by report, resource or both.
 

The TeamQuest Q4 software release delivers what IT managers really need. Predicting the performance of your consolidated workloads on alternative platforms is child's play. Find out how you can evaluate options such as consolidating workloads from multithreaded Itanium environments to an UltraSPARC platform or vice versa.
 

Capacity planning is challenging at the best of times, But in transaction-intensive environments, capacity planning is pushed to the limits. This paper covers the effectiveness of TeamQuest software in high availability and heavy traffic areas.
 

Quick. Define IT Resources. Then explain how you can use a software tool within virtualized environments such as VMware, IBMand Sun Solaris to analyze, generate reports and drill down into the virtual machine the same way you might with a physical machine.
 

Sun solutions architect Bruce Mathews uses TeamQuest software to resolve a wide range of backup challenges. This article focuses on his work at a Wells Fargo data center where he used TeamQuest software to re-architect the backup infrastructure and to assist this client in making the right choices in the future.
 

Hewlett-Packard Company consultant Karen Karwoski uses TeamQuest software as part of a process which helps here recommend the appropriate hardware for a customer's application environment. For example, she uses TeamQuest Model to understand when and why system bottlenecks may occur.
 

This paper shows how to improve analysis with the user agents in TeamQuest Release 10. While TeamQuest gathers a wide range of performance data, it can be augmented with TeamQuest user agents that collect data on business processes, equipment and applications at specific sites. Agents can gather data about network devices, device availability, disk usage by user and much more.
 

Find out how an organization used TeamQuest software for capacity planning on mainframe systems in a large enterprise environment. In particular, TeamQuest Model proved invaluable in forecasting mainframe capacity against anticipated growth.
 

A Configuration Management Database (CMDB)-- one of the core elements of ITIL success-- helps users understand how individual components fit together to support business services rather than seeing a list of independent devices. Learn the basics of what a CMDB is about and how it relates to Capacity Management.
 

In this article, we provide an overview of the technology behind TeamQuest IT Service Reporter, as well as some information on how to use this powerful and easy-to-use software to gather reporting requirements, build report templates, publish reports, and properly set up users, groups and security.
 

In terms of advantages, virtualization has brought higher utilization, server consolidation, workload flexibility, less downtime and reduced time to provision. But, is virtualization the warm and fuzzy end-all? Let's pull back the covers and take a closer look.
 

Practicing the habits of world-class IT is more than just a glitzy marketing phrase. It encompassed the more than 25 presentations and attendees at this year's TeamQuest Technology Summit in Tucson, Arizona. Topics ran the capacity management gamut, delving into virtualization, modeling and aligning IT with business priorities.
 

The best capacity planning tools help you optimize the planning and delivery of IT services. Instead of throwing more capacity at a problem or enabling current resources to sit idle, IT organizations should ensure they can efficiently meet services levels now and for the future.
 

Capacity Management plays a direct role in improving service to the customer. It now impacts pre-deployment testing, measuring and reporting during deployment, and the comparison of design predictions to discover if the organization achieved what it set out to do.
 

The best capacity planning tools help you optimize the planning and delivery of IT services. Instead of throwing more capacity at a problem or enabling current resources to sit idle, IT organizations should ensure they can efficiently meet services levels now and for the future.
 

Capacity Management plays a direct role in improving service to the customer. It now impacts pre-deployment testing, measuring and reporting during deployment, and the comparison of design predictions to discover if the organization achieved what it set out to do.
 

Plan and employ infrastructure changes to meet growing business demands with TeamQuest software. Proactively monitor power consumption and heat output in the data center and make adjustments in real time to maintain adherence to efficiency standards. Read more.
 

TeamQuest Corporation is beefing up its release strategy and sharing a glimpse into future software releases with its latest software roadmap. Find out what's planned for future IT software optimization releases from TeamQuest. Read more. Read more...
 

IT Service Analyzer and IT Service Reporter offer three new technologies to help companies better identify, access and solve business problems. Find out the three new technologies. Read more...
 

The onslaught of virtualization software has influenced many to believe it's time to shelve capacity planning tools in favor of virtualization software. Companies shouldn't listen to the propaganda and here's why.
 

ITIL version 2 adoption rates were rising quickly, but just as quickly, a third version of ITIL came out earlier this year. Take a look at why an organization may and may not want to jump into ITIL version 3.
 

The Capacity Management discipline of ITIL wields great influence on the other disciplines such as Problem and Availability Management. TeamQuest has found that companies may start their ITIL endeavors with Capacity Management and use the realized savings to fund the remainder of the project.
 

Take a look at three types of server virtualization - VMware, Sun Solaris Zones and IBM Micro-Partitioning - and how to analyze them using IT Service Analyzer in the context of ITIL processes.
 

When faced with problematic IT services or multi-tiered applications, analysts need to zero in on the component causing the problem - regardless of where it may reside within the enterprise. Analysts, using proper capacity management software, should be able to take data from thousands of servers, and slice and dice this information in order to trace issues to their underlying causes.
 

Get a better grasp of complex IT environments. Modeling helps companies meet service levels, plan and budget upgrades and find underutilized resources.
 

Ensure everyone is on the same page by knowing your environment and the audience. Many projects are delayed due to each group working from its own agenda.
 

Determine the best balance of cost and performance in the IT infrastructure. Implementing a set of processes designed to help optimize services will go a long way toward returning measurable results and value to the business.
 

By 2011, the EPA estimates server and data center energy consumption will double, costing about $7.4 billion annually. However, there is a potential to save up to $4 billion through more energy efficient equipment and operations, and best management practices.
 

Capacity planning can keep the epicenter of your company's nervous system healthy. We examine planning methods and note their potential pitfalls.
 

Proper planning for disaster recovery can mean the difference between the life and death of a business. It pays to be prepared.
 

Examine the various issues and concerns connected with managing a distributed environment and how one company successfully compared apples to oranges. Take a look at capacity reconciliation as it applies to aggregating CPU utilization rates in a heterogeneous environment.
 

Review how one global technology leader used TeamQuest Performance Software to enhance its VMware monitoring. Readers will have a better understanding how TeamQuest software integrates with VMware in the server consolidation process and monitoring memory and CPU.
 

Ron Potter, Jon Hill and Scott Adams took a look at the future of IT infrastructure and discussed 5 core trends that the TTS audience should keep an eye on. ITIL version 3, Web 2.0, Extreme Transaction Processing...
 

TTS 2007 brought in attendees from all over the world to discuss how they're using TeamQuest software and discover what's coming down the TeamQuest pipeline. Senior Forrester analyst Evelyn Hubbert said that service delivery is the next battleground and urged attendees to...
 

See what TeamQuest has in store with its latest software release.
 

Power consumption in the data center is causing the industry to overheat. Find out what's being done in the industry to cool things a bit.
 

With Daylight Saving Time less than a month away, it's important to take a look at what could be affected and what should be done to minimize the associated risks. Read more to understand how this could affect you and your customers.
 

Gartner, Inc. recently issued a report citing that nearly 70 percent of survey respondents are either looking into consolidation or have a consolidation project underway. Read more information about server consolidation and this survey.
 

TeamQuest discusses four ways to optimize your capacity planning efforts.
 

McKinsey, Forrester and Gartner weighed in the main concerns for CIOs for 2007. Take a look at how their agendas affect the data center.
 

Uncover the hidden benefits of proper capacity planning by using some of the techniques listed in this article and understand why capacity planning isn't receiving the accolades it deserves.
 

The average utilization rates for IT organizations were 20 percent last year. Have your utilization rates improved? If not, how can you have a positive effect? Read this article for ideas.
 

While complexity cannot be eliminated entirely from an environment, IT leaders can manage the complexity through processes, technology and people. Check out other ways of decreasing IT complexity.
 

As consumers demand and receive more from companies, IT will continue to receive more pressure to deliver services so the company can create value for the customer. Read this story for some ideas and findings on coping with the increasing pace of business.
 

Complement ITIL efforts with this best practices, five step process that can reduce TCO, provide a greater return on IT investment and improve IT service delivery.
 

A Gartner senior vice president recently said that $8 out of $10 spent on IT is "dead" money. Discover how you can bring more visibility to capacity planning and keep it from becoming a casualty in the budget process.
 

The hype surrounding SOA has reached a fever pitch. Find out what you need to know about implementing the architecture and some interesting research findings.
 

One major disaster can disrupt business and a company's reputation. Building a disaster recovery plan is the first step in ensuring your availability efforts keep your business up and running.
 

Aligning IT with business strategy has been discussed for the past 20 years. Find out how going the extra mile could bring the two sides closer to success.
 

Blades and virtualization bring interesting opportunities to data centers. As the two become more popular with IT and business leaders, discover some of the advantages to using each and how they complement each other.
 

Everyone from Congress, the EPA and other interested parties is taking an interest in cooling off data center power consumption and reducing energy costs. Get solutions and background information to the temperature-increasing problem.
 

ITIL brings promises of improved productivity, quality and processes for IT operations. The "big" issue is where to begin - tackle all ITIL processes at once or take a staggered approach. Discover why Capacity Management is the best starting point. One reason is that organizations can find enough cost avoidance in savings to finance the entire ITIL project.
 

The overriding perception in the industry seems to be that performance management is capacity planning. Several companies claim to possess capacity planning tools when in actuality they are offering performance management tools. Read on to discover what you're doing and demystify the world of capacity planning.
 

Introducing untested applications into your environment can prove disastrous, however several companies continue to deploy mission critical applications without testing. Understand some of the issues surrounding pre-deployment testing and how you can use it to ensure your applications work properly in the production environment.
 

Life would be nice if someone developed a process - supported by tools - that optimized the planning and delivery of IT services. The art of creating a process that helps you increase the business value of IT is just a click away.
 

Successfully using grid computing for business purposes can help drive utilization in a positive direction. Major hardware vendors are using this as a means to help departments and business units save money, but you still have to understand your capacity requirements.
 

Over the past five years virtualization's popularity has grown to the point where it will soon be the default method of running a server. Among virtualization's advantages are...
 

Switching IT's role from a direct infrastructure provider to a facilitator of business processes requires delivering repeatable and measurable processes which demonstrate the value of the services IT provides.
 

Discover critical success factors and the supporting key elements for IT service delivery. Understand what the business wants from your IT organization and then ensure you deliver.
 

Take a practical approach for establishing Service Level Agreements with business units and identifying the right balance of service and budget you need to provision it.
 

Utilize your existing IT infrastructure, reduce hardware/software expenditures, free up facility space and increase staff productivity by using these strategies to resolve data center issues.