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"Sometimes you can just stack up different parts of an application, you don't have to virtualize everything," says Ron Kaminski.

With Capacity Planning enjoying a resurgence of popularity in IT, are you behind the curve or ahead of the curve? Are you aware of how you are using your hardware? Do you know where all your dormant or orphaned applications are? Do you know why you'd want to be able to swiftly move from physical to virtual servers? Join us as we talk with Ron Kaminski, ITS Senior Consultant at Kimberly-Clark Corporation as we answer these questions and more in our conversation about planning for virtualization and consolidation.

Bio

Ron Kaminski is ITS Senior Consultant at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Ron has lectured on capacity and performance management conferences around the world.

Questions

1. Capacity planning is seen as the key process that enables organizations to successfully consolidate or virtualize and maintain performance. What are you thoughts on this?
2. Can we assume that Kimberly-Clark has joined the ranks of companies with a consolidation and/or virtualization initiatives?
3. Will you describe your key challenges in your adoption of virtualization?
4. Are you using BMC Capacity Management to address your virtualization challenges?
5. There are a lot of people who are virtualizing or consolidating workloads for the first time, and are not trained or experienced as you are from a  capacity-planning perspective.  What should companies who are new to consolidation or virtualization look out for?
6. Will you discuss keys to successful virtualization?
7. Can you give listeners an idea of the benefits they’ll receive?  What benefits have you received, or expect to receive?
8. Why is Kimberley Clark using BMC for these initiatives?