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Data Centre Capacity Planning

Data Centre Managers are facing many challenges as demand for server space increases; costs challenges alone include floor space in a market of growing property prices and demand for power when power prices face an uncertain future due to geopolitical issues. The move towards Blade servers and virtualisation may only exacerbate the pressures on power supply and heat dissipation. This seminar looks at these issues and how appropriate capacity modelling and planning can assist Data Centre design and IT strategy.

This seminar is designed to:

• Identify the key challenges to conducting data centre capacity planning
• Detail the reasons why data centre capacity planning is key to service availability
• Demonstrate the business and financial benefits of data centre capacity planning
• Show how the advent of new technologies requires best-practice capacity planning in the data centre
• Present an approach to conducting data centre capacity planning
• Show how established capacity planning techniques can be applied to solve planning problems in data centre environments
• Outline a strategy for establishing data centre capacity planning

Programme of half-day Seminars

The Performance or Capacity Analyst faces many challenges such as changing business processes, new technology and standards. The Capacitas 2007 seminar programme is designed to provide the Performance and Capacity Analyst with an understanding of important current capacity and performance issues they face. The seminars will be run in central London close to our offices.

Please note: although we previously advertised the seminars would be run in Edinburgh we have been unable to secure sufficient attendees from our Scottish client base to do this. Our apologies to those that had booked the Edinburgh seminars.

Seminar Programme 2007

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 email Capacitas Seminars, or to pay by card click here or call 020 7841 7431. More details...

London, UK, Training Centre:

Please click on the above links to review the course descriptions or email us at Capacitas Training. More details...

Sizing the UK Identity Card System

Capacitas, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) capacity and performance specialist has issued a white paper which, for the first time, quantifies the expected business demand for the UK Identity Card service. The expected demand is 1.2 billion business processes per annum, which is comparable to the NHS National Programme for IT (currently the largest non-military ICT project in Europe). The scale of this demand presents a significant risk to the project as system performance issues are more likely to occur when attempting to meet demand of this magnitude. Click here to view the press release. The whitepaper is available for download here More details...

Click here for press coverage of our white paper on the UK Identity Card scheme.

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

UKCMG Annual Conference, 25th-27th June 2006

UKCMG will be holding its Annual Conference in 2007. Capacitas are the Bronze Sponsor of this event and will be present to answer your questions about our services and training courses. We will also be announcing new services and a revised training programme.

All these will be announced in more detail at our vendor session. Capacitas staff will be on hand to discuss our market-leading syllabus of training courses and programme of seminars. We will have a range of our course and seminar material available for you to review, please find us at stand 7 (see: UKCMG 2007 exhibition layout).

In addition Capacitas staff has submitted the following presentations for this event:

• Windows Vista Performance Monitoring
• Using ITIL to build a successful Capacity Management process
• Application Virtualisation - the future of distributed computing?

The presentation material will be available after the event on our website Research area. The UKCMG 2007 Annual Conference is being held at Whittlebury Hall, near Northampton.

Recent customers of Capacitas include: BSkyB, easyJet, JPM Chase, RBS, PITO, BT, John Lewis, Nationwide, DWP, Norwich Union, CapGemini, Unilever, Orange and GlaxoSmithKline. For more details on what some of our customers have to say about us please have a look at our testimonials and training feedback pages.

"I found the Capacitas course (Capacity Planning: Tools & Methods) to be well-structured, comprehensive and informative. We covered a lot of complex material and a broad spectrum of case studies in the 4 days. The presentations were clear and were delivered by very well-informed trainers in a relaxed and effective manner. The case studies showed how easily the techniques can be applied to good effect in a variety of realistic scenarios.

The sample spreadsheets and Excel add-ons have proven to be very useful, both as supplements to the comprehensive notes [and] providing working templates for doing our own analysis and modelling. I've been entering our own business volumes into the forecasting spreadsheets and have already found this useful in dealing with capacity queries. I would recommend this course to anyone with an interest in capacity planning." Read more...

Carolyn Bradley, Norwich Union

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