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How Banks Gain a Competitive Advantage in the Digital Age with Capacity Planning

Cloud computing offers institutions a viable solution to optimizing their IT infrastructure. Through the use of a third-party cloud provider, banks can start storing data from all platforms and devices on remote servers, freeing up their legacy systems from demand they are often unable to process. That’s why the capacity management tools banks use must not only provide real-time data, but support...
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IT as a Competitive Advantage

Make IT a competitive advantage by providing high customer satisfaction, efficient daily operations, and accurate CapEx planning. Build a strategic and tailored plan to increase your IT efficiency , reliability, and speed. How do you make IT a competitive advantage? Increase IT efficiency - OpEx, CapEx, and staff productivity Efficiency often means doing more with less, but it can also mean...
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Monitoring and Planning in a Solaris Environment

Learn how to manage your Solaris environment--optimize hardware utilization, conserve datacenter floor space, power, and cooling, build a scalable architecture and keep up with growth and performance requirements--with TeamQuest.
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Vityl and ITIL

TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
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Supporting ITIL Objectives

Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
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Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and security...
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Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs

Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions...
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How to Manage IT Resource Consumption

At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to implement...