http://www.teamquest.com/blog TeamQuest, blog, Green IT, virtualization, virtualisation, data center, datacenter, datacentre, capacity planning, capacity management Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:29:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maturity, as defined by Wikipedia, is a psychological term used to indicate how a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate manner. At TeamQuest, we define maturity as the moment when IT views everything from a business point of view, rather than a technical standpoint. The focus ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/12/14/maturity-responding-to-business-needs-appropriately/ I'm attending the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week, and I'm hearing a lot about virtualization and cloud. In fact, I've heard analysts joke (I think) that they are required to mention "cloud" at least once in every presentation. Here are some of things I'm hearing analyst ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/12/06/performance-surveyor-and-gartner-data-center-conference/ It’s official! TeamQuest purchased Performance Surveyor. You can read about the acquisition in the news release. If you want to hear what this means for TeamQuest and the company’s plans to help IT optimize dynamic environments, listen here. We’re putting the control in your hands. You can own a completely vendor ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/11/29/teamquest-buys-performance-surveyor/ Our latest release has improvements for VMware, PowerVM, support for LDAP and Active Directory, and much more. This particular update includes features suggested by 26 customers. Take a look at the release flyer for more information. If you are a customer, log into the support area and download the release ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/10/22/check-out-our-latest-software-release/ Cloud computing has rapidly and dramatically changed the model for distributing and managing services. With this new model, many benefits and savings are achieved, but it also comes with challenges when it comes to developing the right strategy that fits your organizational needs. Many IT organizations do not fully understand the ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/08/23/4-ways-capacity-planning-can-help-your-cloud-initiatives/ Last month, I watched this video from Kathryn Schulz who is a "wrongologist". What she said caught my attention about how we react from being right or wrong and the emotions and beliefs that go along with it. Then I asked myself these questions: How can this relate to IT? What can ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/06/27/who-do-you-blame-when-something-goes-wrong/ Senior Executive Rich Rodgers explained how Verizon Wireless met customer demand for the iPhone launch without any performance issues. “It’s the classic model of IT,” he said. “You work really, really hard and the most you can hope for is that nobody noticed what you did.” ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/06/08/how-verizon-wireless-managed-demand-for-iphone-launch/ We are pleased to announce that Verizon Wireless has been awarded the 2011 IT Service Optimization (ITSO) Award. Verizon Wireless recently launched Apple's iPhone 4 on the nation's fastest and most advanced 4G network. By using TeamQuest software to optimize their IT services, the launch was a complete success. “The launch ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/05/10/teamquest-presents-it-service-optimization-award-to-verizon-wireless/ Today we are making available a maintenance update that includes many improvements to TeamQuest Performance Software. We routinely produce releases like this, providing significant updates, corrections and enhancements to our software. It's just one way we deliver on our promise to provide value to customers. Release 10.3 PF20110301: New performance analysis capabilities Support ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/04/18/announcing-teamquest-performance-software-release-103-pf20110301/ The rush to virtualize everything NOW has been in vogue for a couple of years. But warning flags were raised at TTS by keynote speaker Leonid Grinshpan, a technical consultant with Oracle. He laid out graphically how much of a performance penalty there can be due to virtualization. “There are ... http://www.teamquest.com/blog/2011/04/14/tts-virtualization-requires-agility-and-capacity-planning-excellence/