http://www.teamquest.com/blog TeamQuest, blog, Green IT, virtualization, virtualisation, data center, datacenter, datacentre, capacity planning, capacity management Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:09:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I read the eWeek article entitled, “How to Manage Capacity in Virtualized Environments” I finished wanting more. Actually, I finished realizing TeamQuest already has more to offer.  Explaining the ITIL definition of Capacity Management is great, but how about expanding a bit further and drilling down into the details ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2010/02/05/the-real-how-to-manage-capacity-in-virtualized-environments/ Many organizations operate IT in firefighting mode, reacting to performance incidents when they occur. It is surprisingly less often that organizations perform capacity planning up front, though that would ensure that systems will provide necessary service levels without interruption. Being reactive is more expensive, but nonetheless, more common than being ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2010/02/03/capacity-manager-skills-will-be-hot-in-2010/ Demands for more services are increasing and high performance and reliability are expected, yet budgets, labor and floor space are all being constrained. I guess nobody said running a data center was easy. The need for increased efficiency and reliability points to capacity management processes. And like anything else, you have ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2010/01/20/introducing-a-capacity-management-maturity-model/ Ten years ago it was all about data collection and working to get good performance from infrastructure components. Toward the end of the last decade the emphasis changed for the better, with IT management tools providing more of a service point of view rather than looking at things from a ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2010/01/19/the-next-decade-the-%e2%80%9cit-enterprise%e2%80%9d-it-optimization/ Enterprise Performance Specialist John Seifert recently spoke to performance analysts and capacity planners at CMG about the chart types and functions available in TeamQuest IT Service Analyzer and Reporter. The three main benefits from the software include the ability to: • Align performance analysis and reporting with business and IT services ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/18/using-chart-types-and-functions-in-it-service-reporter-and-analyzer/ What were people asking about at CMG this year? Questions varied from workloads, automated reporting and TeamQuest Model, to collecting metrics in AIX and implementing a public cloud. Read this post from TeamQuest Technology Summit 2009 on TeamQuest software and AIX. While I can’t go into great detail, I can ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/11/tradeshow-booth-talk-at-cmg-2009/ Today Mike DenHartog of TeamQuest clued attendees in at CMG 2009 on the nuances of managing the performance of AIX LPARs in a PowerVM virtualized environment. Mike told the audience it’s important to know the meaning of key parameters. You need to understand what exactly the data are telling you ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/09/monitoring-to-modeling-your-aix-environment-a-cmg-presentation/ This morning at CMG in Grapevine, Texas, TeamQuest's Rey Rios gave an excellent talk about TeamQuest IT Service Optimization (ITSO) and how it relates to the broader, more encompassing ITIL framework. ITSO is really a focused subset of ITIL, making it easier to get quick wins than if you dive headlong ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/09/at-cmg-2009-itso-itil-the-perfect-match/ Guess what? TeamQuest covered virtualization at its user group yesterday. That isn’t a big surprise since the company’s latest release is pretty focused on maximizing VMware performance. TeamQuest Engineer Scott Johnson delivered his “Business Benefits of our VMware Modeling Solution” presentation in a brief 30 minutes. He focused on a ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/08/business-benefits-of-vmware-modeling/ TeamQuest Enterprise Performance Specialist Rey Rios gave an energized and insightful presentation called “Complement Your ITSO & ITIL Processes with TeamQuest Solutions.” He used a nice analogy to explain SLAs – ordering food in a restaurant. What are your expectations when you go into a restaurant? You expect to be ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2009/12/08/5-step-process-enhances-itil-benefits/