For those that didn’t know, System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) is a capacity planning tool that Microsoft created to help organizations planning on deploying certain Microsoft server products.

Project management is a simple concept but in practice, it’s a chaotic timeline twisted up with a thousand different priorities. You need to manage your team’s needs, project tasks and deadlines, all ...

There are many things to consider when capacity planning for SQL Server. Storage and disk capacity are apparent, but when you want to right-size your database(s) for a new SQL implementation or ...

Capacity planning is a major initial consideration for a virtualization project. It is also something IT departments have to continuously refine. Here are some tips to set you down the right path. Tip ...

For years now, VMware has extended its focus from hypervisor or platform provider to management player, and it didn’t take the company long to realize the next phase of revenue would come from ...

Most database implementations are anything but static. Once deployed, databases are queried, updated, loaded, unloaded, reorganized, and data is deleted and inserted from them on an ongoing basis.

If the world moves toward “on demand” capacity and virtualization, could you throw away all of your capacity-planning tools? Although that may seem logical at first glance, the opposite may actually ...

Trying to get a handle on matching technology infrastructure with demand? Here are the nine major steps associated with implementing a sound capacity planning process. This article is excerpted from ...

Servers are complicated machines, requiring cool rooms and regular updates and maintenance to run properly. The problem is, many IT departments are understaffed, and adding server management on top of ...