"You need intelligence behind any kind of automation—a traffic light without intelligence behind it is just going to create traffic jams," says Dave Wagner.
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Capacity Management has long been viewed as a discipline for the mainframe to help control hardware costs. In today's environment—with a proliferation of servers and with distributed and virtual environments becoming more and more common—capacity management is even more relevant for all data centers and IT
We all want to optimize our existing IT investments and reduce operational costs, while maintaining performance and service-levels. While capacity management can certainly help organizations achieve these sometimes opposing goals, we can increase the likelihood of success by adopting a proven process.
Whether you have a formalized capacity management process in place—and the tools to get it done—or you simply recognize the need to get started with Capacity Management, the best-practices discussed in this podcast will help you to optimize the delivery of Capacity Management in your organization.
Bio
David Wagner is Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Solution Labs, Inc, a strategic partner of BMC Software. Before joining Solution Labs, Dave was Director of Solutions Marketing at BMC software. Dave has more than 27 years of technology experience and background in performance analysis and optimization. His career-long goal has been to make technology as efficient as possible by helping customers optimize their performance and capacity.
Resources
Economic Challenge and Capacity Management, White Paper by David Wagner of Solution Labs, Inc. (PDF)
