White Papers

Get informed on how to eliminate waste in your data center and identify virtualization and consolidation opportunities. These whitepapers explain how to safely and efficiently consolidate and virtualize large production environments.

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Frost & Sullivan Report: New Product Innovation Award Management
& Analytics for Cloud & Virtual Environments - CiRBA v7.0

CiRBA received the North American New Product Innovation Award in Management and
Analytics for Cloud and Virtual Environments from Frost & Sullivan for CiRBA Version 7.0 and
the new Control Console.

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CiRBA was best in class.

EMA Report: CiRBA Version 7

EMA analyst Torsten Volk shares his views on CiRBA Version 7 in this three page review of the software.

"EMA believes that CiRBA 7.0 provides a glance into the future of data center intelligence and capacity planning and brings the enterprise one significant step closer to optimal resource allocation, resulting in tremendous CAPEX and OPEX savings."

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CiRBA releases v7 of DCI-Control for virtual and cloud infrastructure

This report provides 451 analyst, Rachel Chalmers views on CiRBA's new Control Console available in DCI-Control v7.

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Server Capacity Defrag: Maximizing Infrastructure Efficiency through Strategic Workload Placements

This is not a paper on disk defrag. Although conceptually similar, Server Capacity Defrag refers to an approach to server optimization through strategic workload placement to maximize VM density on hosts. This paper outlines how to leverage analytics to match workloads together to maximize the use of available infrastructure, enabling users to safely increase density and fit more workloads into environments.

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Analytics for Internal Cloud Management

This whitepaper outlines how CiRBA analytics enables organizations to evaluate and plan the most appropriate use of Internal and External Cloud Computing options alongside more traditional physical or virtual infrastructure to determine the best place infrastructure for workloads.

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Advanced Workload Analysis Techniques

This paper outlines how to analyze utilization curves in virtual IT environments in order to go beyond simplistic sizing approaches and understand true workload requirements and patterns.

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