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• IT Best Practices Manager Ron Potter explains how organizations can successfully build a capacity management team. Discover the steps to take and pitfalls to avoid. http://www.processor.com/    (10/2009)  
• Going Green is all about using fewer of earth's resources. This Data Center Journal article follows an IT process based on industry best practices that is about optimizing IT infrastructure usage, which translates into less power and cooling consumed. http://datacenterjournal.com/    (10/2008)  
• TeamQuest CEO Jerred Ruble emphasizes the need for capacity planning to prevent the complexities associated with virtualization such as VM sprawl. The added layer to an already crowded environment and ease of VM deployment add to the complexities experienced by IT professionals. http://www.cioupdate.com/    (4/2008)  
• Are you afraid of ITIL? Network managers shouldn't be. Ron Potter takes a look at the role network manager should play when implementing ITIL.. The TeamQuest best practices manager explains how the services lifecycle approach to ITIL v3 influences today's network manager. (sign in required)
  http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com    (11/2007)  
• TeamQuest senior engineer Scott Adams spoke to Processor about virtualization implementation, noting that enterprises need a good systems management tool to track and manage virtual servers. The right tool can help managers determine what will happen to response time when activity changes, when application activity exceeds virtual server capacity, what resources will be needed before that needs actually appears, and other factors.
  www.processor.com/   (9/2007)  
• TeamQuest best practices manager Ron Potter discusses performance and capacity management for virtual servers in the Wall Street Technology Association, a publication focused on issues affecting the global financial community. To gain a competitive edge, Potter suggests that companies look for tools that aid in the seamless management of complex, heterogeneous, virtualized environments. In fact, he believes there are four critical aspects of virtualized servers that IT should understand.
  www.wsta.org/   (8/2007)  
• TeamQuest's Keith Hanna believes that telecommunication carriers need to plan ahead to optimize the underlying server computing infrastructure for SOA and IMS in the face of rapid subscriber adoption and extreme transaction processing. Several telecom operators have turned to TeamQuest for its optimization expertise.
  ipcommunications.tmcnet.com    (7/2007)  
• TeamQuest Best Practices manager Ron Potter believes that storage and ITIL fit well together. In fact, Potter says that ITIL-based Capacity Management can drive a more efficient use of resources regarding storage management duties.
  www.enterprisestorageforum.com   (7/2007)  
• TeamQuest IT Best Practices manager Ron Potter briefly explains the difference between ITIL V3 and ITIL V2. He provides a recommendation for those who have already embraced V2 and those who are thinking of moving to the new version.
  www.gcn.com   (5/2007)  
• Ron Potter, IT TeamQuest Best Practices manager, discusses how analytics and business intelligence play a role in Capacity Management in this ITSM Watch article.
  www.itsmwatch.com   (4/2007)