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Seminar Programme 2006-2007

Virtualisation and its impact on Capacity & Performance Management

Virtualisation products, such as Microsoft Virtual Server or VMWare Server, are increasingly becoming the standard in many data centres and test beds. These allow multiple guest operating systems to run under a single host operating system on a server, thereby appearing as separate discrete servers.

While virtualisation has been around on the mainframe platform for many decades it has only been used relatively recently on distributed Operating Systems (OS) such as Unix variants and Microsoft Windows Server. On Unix platforms virtualisation has become popular due to vendor-led initiatives such as Containers in Solaris. However Microsoft Windows Server has only more recently been taken seriously with the introduction of VMWare, so much so that Microsoft have had to play catch-up by launching their own product Virtual Server with inferior functionality.

Whilst the mainframe platform has addressed these issues for many decades, for less-mature platforms, such as Windows Server, the increasing use of virtualisation brings its own problems with monitoring, measuring, analysing and controlling workload on the platform. This seminar is designed to review some of these issues faced by companies investigating virtualisation and provide some suggestions as to risk mitigation and effective capacity management in a virtualised environment.

Feedback from attendees of previous events can be found by following this link. All seminars will cost £125+VAT. Those registered a month before the seminar date will quality for a discount of 20% (£25+VAT). To register please contact us. More details...

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Book Review - Achieving ISO/IEC 20000 Capacity Management

This article contains a review of the book Achieving ISO/IEC 20000 Capacity management by Jenny Dugmore and Shirley Lacy. ISO/IEC 20000 is an IT service management standard produced by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) and is a process-based standard that provides the basis for assessing whether service providers have best-practice, reliable, repeatable and measurable processes. More details...

Please see our Research section for a selection of white papers, presentations and articles on various areas of performance assurance and capacity management.

Recent customers of Capacitas include: BSkyB, Yahoo!, Lastminute.com, William Hill, Aegon, Siemens Business Services, Prudential and the Metropolitan Police. For more details on what some of our customers have to say about us please have a look at our Testimonials page.

Capacitas and easyJet: A Success Story

Low-fares airline easyJet has, since 1998, delivered exceptional value to its customers by pioneering online booking of air travel. In addition to reducing operational costs the internet has grown rapidly to become the company’s primary sales channel, with over 98% of sales delivered via the easyJet.com portal. As easyJet grew it recognised the need to adopt a robust capacity management process and tool to ensure future revenues were realised. Read more...

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