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Many organizations view virtualization as a key technology that can deliver real business value by making their IT...

There are two common avenues organizations can follow to exploit virtualization. The first is primarily motivated...

Dissect the psychology of IT managers that prefer to let a project fail as long as it fails on time in this provocative article by Dr. Gunther.

This article explains how correlated or bunched requests can impact capacity planning results.

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.

This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.

This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.

In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing...