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How to Improve Your Organization's IT Maturity

IT Maturity is often associated with increased efficiency and reduced risk, two forces that will drive valuable improvements. But without a full understanding of the business objectives and how IT needs to be aligned with those full optimization is not possible. The IT Service Optimization Maturity Model will allow you to gradually improve without losing track of any important aspect.
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Q&A with a Capacity Management Expert, Part Two

Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: Is capacity management still relevant in the cloud? Why do large companies still struggle with capacity management? Does capacity management support or hinder DevOps?
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What is a Capacity Management Maturity Model?

Demands for services are increasing. High performance and reliability are expected. Yet budgets, labor and floor space are all being constrained. That’s where capacity management comes in. Capacity management can improve efficiency and guarantee reliability of your business systems.
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What is Capacity Management?

Capacity management is the practice of ensuring you have enough IT resources to meet business demands (without overspending). But your IT environment is a lot more complex than it used to be...
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Five Causes of Performance Bottlenecks in IT

As IT infrastructures continue to grow more complex, finding performance bottlenecks gets hard. That’s why it’s absolutely essential that IT teams have the tools, training, and resources necessary to quickly identify causes of poor application performance.
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Performance Management

What is Performance Management? IT performance management is responsible for everyday aspects of capacity management , like monitoring performance and resources, planning changes to make efficient use of resources, analyzing performance, and reporting back to the business. Now more than ever, your company’s bottom line rests on your ability to provide 24/7 service online. Even short outages can...
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IT Maturity

What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to achieve concurrent...
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Deploying Multi-Factor Authentication in Your Enterprise

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) exists because of the steady increase in data breach events. A data breach can subject your organization to steep fines, litigation, and even criminal prosecution. And it opens innocent third parties to identify theft, which you may also be legally required to mitigate—at your own expense. MFA protects you from the most common cause of a data breach: compromised...
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How to Drive Business Value with Capacity Management

Today’s businesses—and IT environments—are complex. Technology is changing rapidly, which makes it all the more difficult to manage. You may have considered capacity management to right-size your IT environment. But you might be wondering, “What do I get out of this?” Find out how capacity management will have an impact on your bottom line (and beyond).
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How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management

Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...