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Tom Parish
         

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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.

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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?
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Tom Parish
         

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"Great capacity planning is always built on collecting and using the data that lets you depict resource consumption... subdivided into business functions that are meaningful to your business," says Ron Kaminski.

 

Is your IT organization using your hardware capacity to its full potential? Do you know whether you're buying new equipment because you really need new capacity, or are you simply covering for a malfunctioning process? Are you reporting capacity data in terms that people can understand? Join us was we talk with Ron Kaminski, ITS Senior Consultant at Kimberly-Clark Corporation to find out answers to these questions and more.

Ron_Kaminski

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. You've lectured at capacity and performance management conferences around the world on the practical value of capacity management in enterprise data centers.  How long have you been in the capacity planning field?
  2. In addition to using capacity planning to effectively consolidate or virtualize servers and applications you promote capacity planning as an ongoing activity - Talk about some of the best practices that you follow around ongoing operational capacity planning.
  3. What are the some of the key-benefits of doing ongoing capacity planning?
  4. What are your keys to success?
  5. Where should people start?  What are some of the pitfalls that people new to capacity planning fall into?
  6. What should companies look for when selecting a capacity planning tool?
  7. What metrics should they track?  How do you measure success?
  8. Can you share some of the success/metrics you’ve achieved at Kimberly-Clark?
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