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CTO Address: CiRBA CTO Andrew Hillier speaks on why CiRBA Version 7.0 will change how you manage infrastructure

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Why Placements are the Key to Maximizing Efficiency in Cloud and Virtualized Infrastructure

Watch this 2 minute animation that explains why workload placements are the key to maximizing efficiency in Cloud and virtualized infrastructure.

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If It Only Had a Brain: How to Gain Control Over Risk, Density & Efficiency in Virtual & Cloud Infrastructure

While organizations have the base technical tools to build a cloud, they are lacking the mechanisms to properly control these ecosystems. Join CiRBA CTO Andrew Hillier to learn how to gain intelligent control over cloud infrastructure by leveraging a "brain" that understands your policies, technical requirements, utilization, future workload demands, and environment changes to safely increase density, reduce risk and performance issues, and ultimately, automate processes for greater efficiency.

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The Tetris Effect: Increasing the Efficiency of Virtualized Infrastructure through Strategic Workload Placements

Virtualization and consolidation have been widely embraced to reduce capital and operating costs. Initial deployments have generally delivered some savings, but most organizations are continually over-provisioning capacity to mitigate risk resulting in inefficiency and waste.

The traditional approach for determining capacity requirements by analyzing total utilization is now insufficient. As in Tetris, the factors equally important to the size of the workload are the shape, orientation, and ultimately the placements. These factors in combination determine how to make best use of available capacity. Dealing with these placements and the "fragmentation" they inevitably produce is the new frontier in capacity management. By failing to strategically place workloads, organizations not only increase operational risk, but lose significant opportunities to maximize efficiency by increasing densities and designing infrastructure according to required service levels. Ultimately it is the placement of workloads combined with appropriate resource allocations that will determine how efficient and safe an organization’s infrastructure is.

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s CTO & Co-Founder

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Operational Models & Management Requirements for Internal
Private Clouds

This webcast provides a great overview on how to model demand scenarios to ensure sufficient capacity without over-provisioning and choosing the right operating model for your Cloud strategy.

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